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  The Weekly Gazette 03-23-2025
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 03-24-2025, 04:59 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates - No Replies

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(March 17 to March 23, 2025)

Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself

Official Area
General Chat
This week, the hope of a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine hit the News of the World as President Trump made various calls, one suggesting the US take ownership of Ukraine's power plants to make Russia wary of attack. But a cease fire hadn't begun as Russian drones continue to strike. Meanwhile, violence in the middle east intensifies as Syria strikes back at Hezbollah for executing nationals, Israel shoots down Houthi missiles and the US launches attacks against Houthi bases. But while Iran responds to the attack on the Houthis, an Iranian official exposes Tehran's global assassination program. In the US, the Trump administration is facing legal battles, be it Judges blocking deportation orders of immigrants caught relaying Hamas propaganda online or judges freezing efforts despite the EPA alone finding a quarter of a Trillion slush funds set up by the Biden administration. But Florida Governor relayed to the press that this judicial sabotage was quite predictable. It was a shock this week when the Mayor of Istanbul was arrested on charges of terrorism. Many think it politically motivated Lawfare as the man is a political rival to President Erdogan, and worry that Turkey's democracy is endangered with autocratic rule. Three Tesla arsonists hit with federal charges, all with molotovs and one with a rifle fitted with a silencer, Greenpeace losing in court over trespassing, conspiracy and violence charges, Heathrow Airport's daylong closure, Pennsylvania Governor Fetterman's rebuttal to New York's AOC, the arrest of Philippines ex-President Duterte's for crimes against humanity, the death of George Foreman, and much more hit this week's news.
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Games Development
Development Discussion
This week, the skill of pixelwork spriting was What's up among RMers DerVVulfman and Remi-chan, he continuing work upon his Half Kaiser Battler Project, and she receiving new resoures from Rune and CoyoteCraft. Meanwhile kyonides warned all that RPGMaker Unite still exists, but DerVVulfman relayed that he saw it within a charity package with advertised prices overblown.


Complete Projects
Continuing her voyage in replacing her AI generated art, Starmage not only replaced the cover art to A Maiden's Ballad, but delivered a major update, enhancing the visual splendor and battlesystem graphics whilst providing a new update trailer.



Material Development
Scripts Database
RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine
It was nearly two decades since Wachunga released his massive dialogue system that rivaled Ccoa's UMS and Dubealex's Advanced Message system. But now, DerVVulfman put forth his expansion, the Multiple Message Windows Extended. Along with features from the original, name boxes, profiles and extended choice options are now available.

If you wish to limit the number of events that trigger weather events, perhaps KWeatherArea XP would be perfect. Within, you an actually script out areas that would trigger a weather effect upon entering.

RPGMaker VX/VXAce (RGSS2/3) Engines
If you wish to limit the number of events that trigger weather events, perhaps KWeatherArea VX + ACE would be perfect. Within, you an actually script out areas that would trigger a weather effect upon entering. Originally, it was only the VX port within the thread, but hours later the VXAce port emerged, difficult as there were structural changes made within the Game_Screen and Game_Map class.


Resources Database
2D Resources
If you are interested in the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V, you would find that Ace_V decide to revisit the Street Urchin he posted last week, releaing some characterset files that deliver new animations, be it hugs, screams or whatnot. They are taken from hiw own game, but still free to use.



Creativity Section
Music and Audio
If you want something light and playful, the thread with Eric Matyas's Original Music and Sound FX now has three variations of his latest composition, "Pixel Balloons". A light but fast-paced drumbeat, eletric piano or chimes are just backdrops to the melodious synth pops .


Art and Design
More detailed brickwork by Eric Matyas has appeared within the Massive Library of Free Images, be it finely detailed cobblestone in moss green and blue-gray, or cinderblock and heavy brickwork ashen.

Just as there were two weeks ago, character sketches were released within Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing! Her first, a fae not only malevolent but a plague upon legendary bestowers of luck and promises. But her second, a fun loving and friendly denizen of the same realm where the Immoral Architect hails.


Filmography
After entering the foyer of Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre, those familiar with her past work would notice a wholly new reshot of the battle between heroes and heroines possessed. But while Remi-chan is trying to decide upon a voice for a central character for these scenes, she realizes the final reveal cinematic is still pressing.



Well, that's it for this week.

"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away." - Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)



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Just PM DerVVulfman with the submissions. Submissions must be in by 10pm EST.

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  The Weekly Gazette 03-16-2025
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 03-17-2025, 04:59 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates - No Replies

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(March 10 to March 16, 2025)

Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself

Official Area
General Chat
There is plenty of material online to watch, so if you are interested in reaction content, you find that asking AVGB-KDGaming What are YouTubing?, that she found a doctor watching a British Reality show within a hospital. Meanwhile, Remi-chan reminisced about an animated adaptation of a webcomic that involved prohibition liquor-running cats with tommyguns. But revealed that an animated mini-epsisode for the series was also available for viewing.

Donald Trump hit the News of the World as ICE arrests and deportations of Tren De Aragua and like hardened criminals skyrocket, a later report showing the Biden Administration actively lied about their past arrests. And the US had launched major strikes against the Houthis, both refusing to stop until the Houthis disarm and as a strong message to Iran who is joining Russia and China in nuclear talks. Of China, their steel economy began to slip due to its housing crisis, but is caught on video using plenty of steel to make landing barge troop transports for a possible Taiwan invasion. Insofar as the Ukraine/Russia war, Russia made claim it had retaken Sudzha and Ukraine flatly denied reports that thousands of their troops were surrounded. The Greenland election sending a message that its land is not for sale, a French lawmaker demanding the return of the Statue of Liberty, US Democrats divided after the government funding bill passed, another lawsuit over spilt hot coffee after 30 years, the Macedonian Nightclub fire, and more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk
The News of the Cyber World at the end of the week was certainly SpaceX's rescue of the 9 month stranded astronauts. But with kudos for SpaceX, Musk had issues with a massive cyberattack against Twitter/X, the scope suggesting either a large entity or country involved. And lastly, the US's Social Security Administration is upgrading its bulky systems with AI using the new Hearing Recording and Transcriptions (HeaRT) system. The Chinese Billionaire Hobo and British Columbian Premier's threat to Canada's Tesla market also hit this week's news.



Games Development
Development Discussion
Game development is always What's up our RMers as DerVVulfman is continuing his spriting endeavors on ladies' bras, while AVGB-KBGaming wants to expand his knowledge on various RPG engines while working on a character survival game with some TES-like backstory. However, Remi-chan feels she is going through another case of burn-out, and warned AVGB-KBGaming how she strugged with one of the game engines just mentioned.


Complete Projects
Starmage has remasteed Elf's Dairy, her game from 2018, changing battle mechanics where some characters now have more attack skills that have a 100% chance of success, changes to the Area-Of-Effect system, and added some Ale in time for Saint Patrick's Day. But like her other works, she has been replacing her AI generated art with her own work.

Starmage appeared within both her Astral Awakening and Once Upon the Woods contest games, replacing all the cover art generated by Leonardo A.I. with her own. But with Once Upon the Woods, game graphics have also been updated.



Material Development
Tools
There are now new input options added to the HiddenChest RGSS Player Executable. This week, kyonides added Input.double_trigger? and Input.trigger_old options. However, he states that there are still issues with Input.repeat?


Scripts Database
RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine
A feature that had been added in various systems before and was made a standard feature within later engines, DerVVulfman added Simple Dashing to the RPGMaker XP engine. The code, he states, is basically simple code based upon that from RPGMaker VXAce's. And it merely performs speed increases and not character graphic changes. But he does have features where the dash effect can be disabled.

RPGMaker VX/VXAce (RGSS2/3) Engines
Have you thought it would be entertaining to change the way the damage formulas worked? With Ekuipment's Skill Damage ACE by kyonides, you can. It allows you to alter the item or skill damage formulas through the equipment's notebox. It was within a day that kyonides updated the script to allow stat and specific percentages to also be invoked.

Returning to his Character's Dash Animation for RPGMaker VXAce, kyonides added a minor rework of the character draw method as part of a minor feature request. But it wasn't enough as there were a couple of minor bugs he had to eliminate.


Resources Database
2D Resources
Newspapers still exist, and are among the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. This week, Ace_V sprited a street urchin whom can earn money as a paperboy. And for those who have need, there are a pair of newspaper icons if you have need for tabloid papers in your game.



Creativity Section
Music and Audio
The high-energy electric pop of the 80s has been revived by the Original Music and Sound FX of Eric Matyas. His latest composition entitled "Arcade Space Quest" is a quick paced and filled replete with polysynth blasts and new age sweeps.


Art and Design
If you need an old wood texture, the Massive Library of Free Images that Eric Matyas has beein compiling now has two more. One of his newer textures is a rough dark brown color, the second grayed and aged.

A new face has appeared within Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing! Clad in a dark Yukata robe accented with sunflower and like bright flowers, a lady similar in design as Remi's Immoral Architect, but with deep crimson eyes. The background given by the artist is that she is indeed from the same realm as the characters dubbed 'The Twins', and gifted us with a companion speed draw.



Well, that's it for this week.

"If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight." - George Gobel


PROSPECTIVE GAZETEERS!

If you are the creator of a thread in Save-Point, you have the option of sending/writing your own entry into the Gazette. The Gazette accepts write-in announcements (which will be doublechecked). Likewise, the Gazette would welcome other content such as a comic-strip series, ongoing story arc, or the like.

Just PM DerVVulfman with the submissions. Submissions must be in by 10pm EST.

Regularly posted 12am (EST) (between Sunday & Monday) based on U.S. Daylight Savings,
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  The Weekly Gazette 03-09-2025
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 03-10-2025, 05:01 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates - Replies (1)

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(March 03 to March 09, 2025)

Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself

Official Area
Announcements and Updates
This week, DerVVulfman unveiled some Shiny Themes and Shiny Buttons!. No longer are you limited to the default skin for the forum, but nine others. But along with that, the forum's top menu now contains a shiny gold donation button for those who wish to give a little gift for the site's maintenance and costs.


General Chat
A bit of amusement was on the mind of Remi-chan early this past week, she not having to deal with Daylights Saving time in Australia.

This week, the News of the World had seen the Demoratic Party suffer public scrutiny for their behavior during President Trump's speech to congress, with Senator Fetterman criticizing his own part that they wouldn't even applaude for a young cancer survivor. But he wasn't alone in being critical as Chicago citizens now slam Democrats for attempting to use race to defend their sanctuary city policies, In the US's aim to securre their border, new reports show illegal crossings have dropped to only 3% of what it was under the Biden Administration. Charges are being filed against two members of the DHS who intentionally leaked information on ICE raids. And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's aide self-deported himself back to Columbia, an illegal immigrant himself. Outside the US, Iran slammed the US after receiving a letter from President Trump asking to hold negotiations to halt its nuclear program. But regarding Ukraine, the rare earth mineral deal with Zelenskyy is still on board. The discovery of $20 Million in graft and the subsequent dropping of DEI in the University of Virginia, the stranded astronaut's claim Biden left them up at the I.S.S., the tragic death of Luxembourg’s Prince Frederick at 22, the bomb threat at Barnard College during their anti-Israeli protest, and more hit this week's news.



Games Development
Complete Projects
Starmage returned to update the cover art for Esper Unleashed, her submission to the 6th Annual Driftwood Gaming Game Jam. Rather than keeping the Leonardo AI generated art, she has been endeavoring to replace it all with content utilizing her own skills.



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Scripts Database
RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine
If you want to have a little extra wobble to your map's atmosphere, DerVVulfman crafted Shaky Fog. The script allows the game developer to deploy fogs upon maps that can shake in the same manner as the built-in shake screen effect. Unsure, but DerVVulfman believes he worked on a variation of this script for Aveyond_fan.


Resources Database
2D Resources
Last week, an air conditioner window unit was one of the recently added Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. But upon a request by DerVVulfman, an exterior, back view of a window unit was included. But not only that, but a sideview charater was also supplied.



Creativity Section
Music and Audio
If anyone is working on a game that demands music that is low-fidelity, let's not forget that Eric Matyas has Original Music and Sound FX - Over 2000 Tracks that he is willing to share, though he does have quality selections that are in OggVorbis. While he has a large selection of pieces, he just released two remastered versions of compositions from only last month. However, Eric revisited one of his quirkier pieces and too reworked into a low-fidelity format.


Art and Design
This week, only one image of DerVV's Stream FrankenArts was revealed, but DerVVulfman appeared quite pleased with how it came out. A larger picture showing a very tiny Siletrea flying away in panic from a creature from Monster Hunter World, he goes into some detail on what techniques he used when merging the arts together.

If you decided to walk through the halls of the forum's gallery in order to view Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing, you would discover four new pencillings. While one of her characters is shooting coins out of her hand, two others are posing meek and mild. As to the fourth, meek and mild is certainyly not in his dictionary.

Her first released work since last year, a greeting card honoring Women's Day appeared within Starmage's Arts and Training Journey. Feel free to enjoy her artwork with characters rendered from Stellar Bewitching, Rave Heart and Heroes of the Seasons.



Well, that's it for this week.

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - Samuel Clemens / Mark Twain (1835–1910)


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Just PM DerVVulfman with the submissions. Submissions must be in by 10pm EST.

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  Shiny Themes and Shiny Buttons!
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 03-06-2025, 03:42 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates - Replies (2)

Hey guys!   After all this time, and after getting some things straightened out, I managed to get some of the behind-the-scenes worked out to begin crafting another forum desktop style:

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Indeed, we now have two separate forum themes.  So besides the default theme, we have another based upon the old 2009 Rebirth theme.  True, both are currently purple in hue. But I am currently working to identify all areas where board color (including hyperlinks) are applied.

Where can you find and change your themes?  It can be set within your USER CP. Within the Your Profile window on the left side of your Control Panel, you will find the Edit Options hyperlink.  From there, you can set various options  to suit your tastes, and the Board Style option is where you may choose between the (currently) two available themes.

And of colors, do check out the new menu button on the very right.  

You see it, right?  Kinda gold colored compared to the rest? You can't miss it.

Indeed, it is a Donation button.

A week ago, Kirito StrangeAutomaton posted a thread in the event anyone wished to help support the forum, cover the cost of the server maintenance, tools, time served, and so on.  Rather than having that post forgotten, I decided to make a dedicated button within the top menu.  It will take you to a nice little page, a portion of it can be found right here.




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  The Weekly Gazette 03-02-2025
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 03-03-2025, 06:01 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates - No Replies

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(February 24 to March 2, 2025)

Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself

Official Area
Announcements and Updates
If you wish to Support Save-Point!, Kirito set up a KoFi where all donations would go towards hosting fees, time and expense and any necessary equipment.


General Chat
The fact that Daylight Saving Time is approaching is What's on kyonides's mind.

This week's News of the World was the final moments between Ukraine's President Zelenskii and President Trump and VP Vance in the Oval Office. Even GOP Senator Lindsey Graham who had supported Zelenski in the past suggests someone new be in charge of Ukraine if Zelenski could not patch things up. However, there are calls to cancel President Trump's State visit to the UK, and a Norwegian Company suggested a boycott against the US Navy. The bodies of four hostages have been released by Hamas, followed by Israel's release of dozens of Palestinaian prisoners. And with that talks have entered the second phase for a sustained cease fire. However, China isn't helping matters having now supplied 1,000 tons of sodium perchlorate to Iran for their missile fuel production. The entertainment Industry suffered the loss of Michelle Trachtenberg, star of Harriet the Spy, and in both "Gossip Girl" and TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer at age 39. And the discovery of Two-Time Oscar winner Gene Hackman and his wife dead at home has many suspicious, Hackman and his wife found in separate rooms while their dog was also found dead within a closet. Their bodies found partially mummified in the dry New Mexico air. The US transport chief seeking to boost air traffic control hiring being over three-thousand short in staff, the ACLU and others sue to prevent the use of Guantanamo Bay for migrant detainees, Mel Gibson's call to fuel another recall effort against Governor Newsome citing criminal negilgence, and more hit this week's news.
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Games Development
Development Discussion
Zeriab's initial Thoughts on the Interpreter's Script Command edited by kyonides wasn't favorable, but found favor in a version released later. It was RPGMaker VXAce that inspired kyonides recent work on the Script handling method, though there was dialogue back and forth regarding what was classified as a true response. But when kyonides replied that he tests his work, DerVVulfman took note and aggravated discource went back and forth between the two.



Material Development
Tools
Ace_V enjoyed using MapMaker (for RMXP) but had issues. And after kyonides recommended edits, DerVVulfman appeared and saw that the version available for download did not contain changes that he had intended days before. And after he released a gif showing how the tool worked with Ace_V's demo stripped down, Ace_V had solved his issues. But not long after, DerVVulfman uploaded a sixth version that handled empty map and issues with the filenames of saved map images.


Scripts Database
RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine
There were repeated updates to the Script Commands Bug Fixes by kyonides, dealing with the interpreter method that handles scripts, but relays his estimation that a system freezing fault lay between the Interpreter's Update and execute_command options, and the handling of the running index value.

More of a scripting tool, DerVVulfman posted the Sort File Snippet which is designed to merely sort and rewrite the content of a text file.

If you think the arrow indicators pointing at Actors or Enemies were too small, don't worry. DerVVulfman released JR's Oversized Arrow which allows one to use an outside graphic that allows you to have arrows twice as large.

A number of edits were performed upon Poccil's Tilemap Rewrite, both working to handle tiles that were defined as having a high priority rating within the tileset. The most recent version includes a new editable configuration value to let one adjust how the priority tiles zoom as DerVVulfman relays that very little additional zoom is needed if it was used within the HiddenChest executible by kyonides.


Resources Database
2D Resources
If anyone has need for modern art in their RPGMaker game, the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V now includes a conventional AC window unit. A perfect resource to acquire before the weather gets too warm.



Creativity Section
Art and Design
For those working upon models or custom tilework, the Massive Library of Free Images for Everyone may have textures which you may have need. This week, Eric Matyas made half-a-dozen textures of metal showing oxidation, from rough to extreme. And a very dark texture depicting a rough of midnight blue is also available if desired.

Only two of DerVV's Stream FrankenArts were presented this week. Two pieces he worked on for Siletrea's Iceborne campaign, one an actual collaborative effort between the two. However, DerVVulfman interspersed his recent post with some comedy-related online gifs.

A bit early for easter, but a new work had appeared within Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing!. Her gallery now depicts a fairly sheepish figure in a tattered robe with her hood up. But while she carries a shepard's cane, she is no one to mess with.



Well, that's it for this week.

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'" - Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)


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Just PM DerVVulfman with the submissions. Submissions must be in by 10pm EST.

Regularly posted 12am (EST) (between Sunday & Monday) based on U.S. Daylight Savings,
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  Support Save-Point!
Posted by: StrangeAutomaton - 02-25-2025, 06:23 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates - Replies (3)

I set up a Ko-Fi to support Save-Point and hopefully collect the $360/yr it costs to run this server. Link is below:

https://ko-fi.com/strangeautomaton/goal?g=0

All money goes towards hosting fees, my time, and my equipment. Thanks for any support in helping me keep Save-Point alive.

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  THE RECOVERED DOWNLOAD MANAGER
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 02-25-2025, 04:04 AM - Forum: Resources Database - No Replies

THE RECOVERED
DOWNLOAD MANAGER
FILES

The download manager became non-functional in 2015, and the contents thought lost. However, the files were recovered, links restored and can now be found here.



Music and Audio

Facesets and Portraits

Characters and Icons

Battlers

Tilesets

Backgrounds (Titles, Panoramas, etc)

Windowskins

PSD Files

Scripts

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  Network Upgrades
Posted by: StrangeAutomaton - 02-24-2025, 06:35 PM - Forum: Announcements and Updates - No Replies

There may be interruptions or degradations in service over the next few days as the data-center where Save-Point is  hosted is getting network upgrades. This is not a problem with the server itself, and once maintenance is complete everything will go back to normal.

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  The Weekly Gazette 02-23-2025
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 02-24-2025, 06:00 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates - Replies (1)

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(February 17 to February 23, 2025)

Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself

Official Area
General Chat
Of which News of the World are you interested? Is it the peace talks that US President Trump is working upon between Ukraine and Russia? Despite talks being underway, the war rages and Russia loses four major refineries, and a spyware facility to drone attacks followed by a large scale drone attack that targeted Kiev. And while Russia was pushed back to their current position and did not take all of Ukraine as they planned, Putin is already orhestrating a "Victory over NATO" propaganda engine. But as Putin makes plans, NATO makes its own preparations for troops within the Ukraine to ensure stability. Within the US, a Biden Appointed Judge rejected the lawsuit to prevent Elon Musk's DOGE from Federal systems. Already, Doge uncovered 20 Million in fraud within the Social Security for people over 100 years of age, up to 150 years old having checks cut no less. And the new commerce secretary welcomes DOGE to find any instance of fraud such as that. China is not too thrilled with the US after the State Department removed text from its website, line of text suggesting the independent nation of Taiwan (the remaining original Republic of China) be reunited or returned to the CCP. But then again, China ignores maritime law and deployed forces against a Canadian warship in the Taiwan strait despite any a state's sovereignty ends after the 12 nautical miles from its territorial waters. And as Hamas frees more Israeli hostages, Iran begins becoming more aggressive, claiming to arrest two British tourists and an unnamed Israeli under charges of espionage. A Massachusetts Teachers Union under fire for anti-semitism, the FAA under fire from 1000+ applicants denied employment and racial discrimination under the Biden administration, the Tupak Shakur murder trial delayed till next year, Pope Francis's critical condition, L.A.'s mayor criticized for firing the Fire Chief by the United Firefighter's union, violence committed by women in California soars, a stabbing at Berlin Holocaust Memorial, and more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk
This week the News of the Cyber World had good news and bad news for Elon Musk. While charges brought by the Biden Department of Justice for refusing to hire Illegal Aliens was droppped by the Trump administration, Musk's jaw must have dropped after hearing his rival's AI service recommend something worse than prison. For electric vehicles it is just unkind, as the US government is shutting down charging stations at their federal building and Walmart issued a recall on electric scooters after an apartment was sent ablaze over its lithium ion battery, the manufacturer actively ignoring calls for recall by the Consumer Product Safety Commission itself. Google to be hit by the European Union for moreviolations of the Digital Markets Act, Microsoft preparing a new GPT model, XBox pushing an AI model that developers actually argue against using, and more hit this week's cybernews.



Games Development
Development Discussion
Even though Remi-chan says she still suffers from burnout, asking her What's up would reveal that she is still getting some resources for her game, be it spritework from Rune or spritework from Coyote, In the meantime, she posted two more videos showing game footage reworked and revised.

Were you to venture into the Maps and screenshots thread, it would be a study in contrasts. Mel posted four scens from her game, an airship with both its interior and shot against a darkened sky with one image animated. And Remi-chan with four shots of her own with worlds, alien or otherwise as backdrops, whether a destoyed satellite-like outpost, an urban jungle or above a familiar blue-white sphere.



Material Development
Scripts Database
RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine
Though released only last week, The Steal and Peep Script had one more update, and it adds a feature where some custom gear can be used to improve the chance of either theft of peeping in respect to other gear of like stats worn.

There have been a number of scripts out there, but DerVVulfman compiled a number of the hidden class scripts, and reworked them for his SCREEN SIZE for RMXP collection. A part of a Re-Envisioned Game Set, the scripts were altered to let one develop a game beyond the traditional fixed resolution of 800x600. However, he did disable the ability to enter Fullscreen mode as that is something built into the Game.Exe itself.

DerVVulfman was looking for a tilemap script for his own uses, and found one that intrigued him. Thus, we now have Poccil's Tilemap Rewrite, a tilemap script that can support the increase/decrease of camera zoom if an appropriate script is used.

The last of the Re-Envisioned Game Set scripts is Poccil Map Zoom. Originally by Trebor777 and originally for SephirothSpawn's Tilemap script, it was rewritten for use with Poccil's.


Resources Database
2D Resources
If you like the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V, you will enjoy the fact that he updated the editor pin set he released last week. But for those who have a penchant for art, he turned the Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer into an actual characterset graphic for use.



Creativity Section
Music and Audio
If you are looking for some Low Fidelity work, fear not for Eric Matyas Shaed More Original Music, His "Game Menu" from 2016 now has that Low Fi sound, and the more energetic "Mind Bender" from 2017 now has its energetic Calimba in fabulous Low Fidelity.


Art and Design
It was surprise to Remi-chan this week when venturing through the galleries to see that Her Own Neato Arty thread thing! did not contain her Valentine's Day art. No longer the flat colors,the Angel shares a moment with the demon meek, set against a starry sky lit wine. As expected, a speed draw is included.

A perfectionist in his trade, Rise Evil Demos updated his Art Deck by providing updated color patterns to some renders of Raira, the electric Nekomimi. But as he did, he added a couple more works such as Raira climbing a tree. But what would you expect of a cat?


Literature
When ones delves through the hallways of the forum's center for the creatives, they may venture upon some of Remi-chan's Writing Snippets~. And this week, she released a few pages involving the villains and antagonests the players will unvariably encounter, a shadow queen whose existance is older than the universe, a cherubim facing down the Priestess of the Moon, and the shephard of Eden itself. If reading is not your style, you may choose the 'books on tape' option at the bottom of Remi-chan's latest post.



Well, that's it for this week.

"I’m so conflicted when my husband does the laundry. On one hand, he did the laundry. On the other, my clothes can now be sold at Gap kids." - Molly McNearney


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  The Weekly Gazette 02-16-2025
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 02-17-2025, 05:59 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates - No Replies

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(February 10 to February 16, 2025)

Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself

Official Area
Announcements and Updates
Recently, we had Errors with the Attachments system. However, Kirito reported it was related to a bug discovered in the web server software we were using. Since then, Kirito changed it out, allowing the attachments to be accessible once again.


Feedback and Suggestions
This week, DerVVulfman looked into forum security. However, he was worried about new registrants not appearing and created a poll asking Are the New Security Questions Too Hard?. It is a simple poll with just "Too Hard" and "Just Right"


General Chat
Oh, friends. You look tired. Have some fun and ask kyonides the question of What are YouTubing?. That is if you don't think a Freddy Kruger Tier list won't give you nightmares tonight.

For those who are fans of PalWorld, it appears that Nintendo's Lawsuit against them had hit a Snag. Almost all of the patents that Nintendo filed have been rejected by the US Patent and Trademark Office, patents that form the basis of Nintendo's lawsuit.



Games Development
Development Discussion
This week, issues of animation speed was What's up with an RMer named Steel Beast 6Beets. He believed the issue of a common event delivering animations was slowed down by a Large Party script, to which caught the eye of DerVVulfman. He did a few changes, and noted a mere 2fps drop in speed during default attack animations. However, the custom ones from Steel Beast 6Beet's common event persist.



Material Development
Tools
While there was nothing wrong with the tool itself, DerVVulfman returned with an updated copy of MapMaker (for RMXP), stating that the supplied INI file had an incorrect value assigned. Along with the explanation he gave as to the correction within the INI, he also supplied an updated version of the package's Readme file.


Scripts Database
Script Requests
Continuing from last week, DerVVulfman worked more upon the Steal Script Edit that Ace_V requested, and suggested that the existing edit of the default damage pop wasn't enough to show both damage attacks and stolen goods pop combined and that a second pop method would be needed. And after showing off his initial success, DerVVulfman stated that the script would have a vocabulary section for any text that was previously hard-coded within the original.

RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine
The The Steal and Peep Script released this week by DerVVulfman is a request realized. Based on the 2005 script by makeamidget & Khatharr, it allows a game developer that can craft either a Steal Combat skill or an Enemy Scanning skill that has the option to deliver damage to an enemy target. Divided into three pages, this work includes some of the back-and-forth banter of the original coders. And after Ace_V found some errors within the code, DerVVulfman returned with a revision and explanation of what corrections that were made.


Resources Database
2D Resources
This week, you can find useful temporary placeholder pins among the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. Their basic use could be reminders to fix or betatest events, locations where to place NPCs and more. And along with the basic allotment provided, Ace_V included some with pre-defined phrases to assist developers and mappers in recognizing what they have planned at some later date.



Creativity Section
Music and Audio
If any creatives needed a fast paced techno beat for their game, it is a good thing that Eric Matyas continues to work on his Original Music and Sound. Though under the weather last week, he returned with a new composition entitled "Cyberpunk Street Chase" that combines a simple but rapid fire drum beat with a good share of 80s styled digital harmonies.



Well, that's it for this week.

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work." - Thomas Edison (1847-1931)


PROSPECTIVE GAZETEERS!

If you are the creator of a thread in Save-Point, you have the option of sending/writing your own entry into the Gazette. The Gazette accepts write-in announcements (which will be doublechecked). Likewise, the Gazette would welcome other content such as a comic-strip series, ongoing story arc, or the like.

Just PM DerVVulfman with the submissions. Submissions must be in by 10pm EST.

Regularly posted 12am (EST) (between Sunday & Monday) based on U.S. Daylight Savings,
4am Monday (UTC), 10pm Sunday(CST/MDT), 6pm Sunday (HST), 6am Monday (CEST), 2pm Monday (AEST) observing daylight savings
5am Monday (UTC), 11pm Sunday(CST), 6pm Sunday (HST), 7am Monday (CET), 3pm Monday (AEST) Not observing daylight savings

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