Just like last week, Myrmidon came in and admitted he joined our forum to acquire scripts for RPGMaker VXAce. However, he appreciates our forum and is thinking about sticking around seeing that our site has a lot of history. He was greeted by DerVVulfman who noticed his scripting skills was based on trial and error, and said he was in good standing as that was how many learned.

The Ukraine/Russia war hit the News of the World after Ukraine's massive strike that blew up Russia's Nuclear bomber base with Ukraine then blowing up the Kirch Bridge that connects Russia to Crimea. Russia did strike back, launching the most powerful attack against Ukraine, delivering both missile and drone strikes agaainst Kharkiv. Following this, Ukraine destroyed over a dozen Russian tanks and one hundred armored vehicles. Despite that and the financial crisis is facing, Russian soldiers advanced into a new region in Ukraine as it was revealed Moscow's end game is to take over half of Ukraine by next year. The South China sea also hit the news of thw world as the US sends an Amphibious Warship to Japan, this as China sends military ships along the Spratley Islands. China had long claimed they own the China sea that also includes the waters of the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan and others. But now Japan intercepted two Chinese Destroyers crossing into their waters. The war between Israel and Hamas continues. And despite Hamas being a terrorist organization, the UN Security Council attempted to force a ceasefire with the US vetoing the measure. But it isn't just that war to be wary, as its been revealed that Iran is purchasing missile fuel from China and still working with their proxies. Contering all the rising threats, Turkey began building its own Aircraft Carrier. Stationed in Istanbul, the Mugem will be armed with combat drones and light jets. Within the US, the rift between President Trumpand Elon Musk was popular news, Elon's own father actually criticising his own son's comments. Formerly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in the States, but now facing numerous charges of human trafficking that spans a decade. The United Healthcare CEO killer's diary was used during his trial revealing his motives, months of planning and surveillance of his victim. And there have been numerous food safety recalls, be it Dr. Pepper recalls, or recall over Salmonella in Egg, and various vegetable produce in Kroger and Albertsone stores. Canadian wildfires, India invited to the G7, Biden's response to the Autopen stories and more hit this week's news.
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This week, data breaches continue to hit the News of the Cyber World, this time 30 million customers from Santander Bank by the same group that broke into Ticketmaster last year, and 86 million AT&T customers with half of them including social security numbers. The realm of AI is going back and forth as it was just revealed that Microsoft's AI created startup chatbots were not made by AI as advertised, but by human coders. The appearance of the Claude 4 Opus AI now makes it near impossible to tell the difference beteen AI and human, now considered an even higher risk in the realm of blackmail and extotion. And following lawsuits against OpenAI over claims of copyright theft, ChatGPT's latest memory feature has been ordered to remember all conversations including those that were meant to be deleted, this to prevent deletion of incriminating evidence during the currently numerous ongoing lawsuits. New Switch II consoles arriving with puncture holes in the screens, the social media challenge called dusting taking another life, Youtube pushing even more advertisements in their service and more hit this week's cybernews.

If you were curious about What's up among the forum's RMers, DerVVulfman finished working on the weapon templates for his Half Kaiser Battler project and labored upon the various shields until only two sets remain. And of the project to craft events that could travel from map to map, that too was completed and released within a thread within the Scripts Database. Following that, Remi-chan appeared and posted new screenshots from her game. But along with the screenshots, she revealed one more character portrait by Pjcr, and sprites by Xiie (or Rune in our forum) and by Coyotecraft.

This past week, Remi-chan entered the Maps and screenshots thread and was elated by the comments made by Tigerus Fay about her game's art. After giving credit to the artists who did such labor, Remi-chan presented even newer renders, both charactersets and in game settings such as the Bloodletter's battle arena.

After all the fan-art she illustrated, Starmage's Arts and Training Journey comes full circle as she takes those newly developed skills to draw the devlish lead to one of her own games. Caught in nothing but black briefs, Delvin couldn't be more red if he tried.

After taking a small vacation from her projects, new illustrations have now appeared within Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing! The first work you may gaze upon is that of Anethema, a demoness that has appeared before, replete with her bloody butcherknife blouse. Her second work would more accurately be considered a comic book or manga illustration as she pit hero against villain, and the bewilderment that surfaces after a lethal strike does not go as expected.

This is the second time that a youtube link appears within Remi-chan's Writing Snippets~, but this in accompaniment with a quote and backstory from her current gaming project. However, while the quote is present, the video contains much more as it is also a sampling of Remi-chan's more recent vocal hires.

For those who paid a ticket to enter Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre, they would gaze upon new footage for her game, Fantasia. Cutscene introductions of major players have been recreated and cinematics with new vocal work for Sacre Blu are present for viewing pleasure.

There is a bit of an alert as the Save-Point Funding has already been cut in half, and is not enough to mainain server bills. However, there is enough to keep us aflott for a while. If you are interested, there are Ko-Fi links in the gazette.

For the News of the World, the Ukraine Russian war hits hard, with Drone strikes from Ukraine obliterating Russia's nuclear bombers, this after Putin's deadly assault on Ukraine's civilian population last week that has US President Trump question the sanity of Russia's President Putin. NATO is extremely worried, so much so that NATO allies seek to purchase US Fighter Jets to counter Russia's own. China also hit this week's news, immediately violating a trade deal only just made with the U.S. And a Chinese Aircraft Carrier went into contested waters near Japan on route to the Phillipeans, this while the Chinese military having harassed vessels in the Phillipeans in recent months. Insofar as the US, President Trump's Tariffs hit a snag with Trade courts until an appeals court shot down the trade court’s ban. Meanwhile, one Democrat could be removed from Congress as bodycam footage showed her assault ICE agents two weeks ago, another condemn DHS agents who detained his aide while arresting rioters being harbored, and a third caught performing the NAZI salute. San Francisco lowering the education bar by eliminating failing grades altogether, Russia praising North Korean soldiers sent to fight Ukraine, major food warnings for salmonella and cookie food recalls, and more hit this week's news.
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This week's News of the Cyber World was bad for Google wishint to appeal the court's ruling on their anti-trust case, Microsoft is filing bankrupcy for their Russian subsidiary following comments by Russian President Putin, and a security breach in both Etsy and TikTok reveals the data of over a million user accounts. Meanwhile, Meta shut down a Chinese cyber-influence operation that targeted Romania, Azerbaijan and Taiwan. The CIA using a Star Wars fansite for an espionage operation, China forced to make their own AI chips, and more hit this week's cybernews.

If anyone has doubts about the nefarious actions of Chinese Hackers and their connection to the communist party, they should be aware that the UK, Czech Republic and the Netherlands have each reported recent espionage and cyberhacks. And US intelligence agencies published on Tuesday that China is steadily working to cripple and capture Taiwan.

If you wondered if anyone tried to break the rules of game making, by asking What's up, RMers?, you would find that DerVVulfman has been working on a new form of actionable event called an NPC, an event that is unbound to any single map. And along with that, he also revealed he finished working on the katana graphics for the Half Kaiser Battler project. And of graphics, Remi-chan revealed that she now has a new sprite courtesy of Coyotecraft and a youtube video presenting her revised battle between her heroines and the Crimson Demon.

As she continued to rework the dialogue within the first volume of her game, Fantasia, Remi-chan chose to take screen capture to present within our Maps and screenshots thread.

Appearing this week is a new guide to guide GameMaker users in Creating Platform Games. An older tutorial for GameMaker 4.2 or higher, it is the second tutorial posted by DerVVulfman despite he not having any experience with the system. But unlike the previous tutorial he revealed, this one comes with example code and a graphic file for use.

For those that peruse the gallery of Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing!, they would see a new piece of pandemonium. The original design and layout of Remi-chan's vision of Shroedinger's cat scrapped, it is almost fitting that the anomalous figure was borne of spontaneous creation. However, this six hour work has no speed draw. Instead, it has a bit of prose, one of Remi-chan's own Writing Snippets~.

A rare page indeed fluttered among all of Remi-chan's Writing Snippets~, a tale of chaos incarnate, the mind of the mistress of anarchy. She who no longer has a master whom gave her existance, and is both her own master and slave. Remi-chan presents this bit of prose with some haphazardous riffs to set the mood.

If you wish the enter the auditorium of Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre, you would find yourself with two different choices. Do you wish to view the recently updated cutscne showing a starship armada? Or fid you wish to get a sneak peek of a confrontation by Remi-chan's newer vocal actress confronting the Insidious Architect.

A fair number of people have discovered that our furm has a stocked archive of scripts. And seeing membership was needed, jimbobiii came by and completed his registration. Greeted he was by Remi who welcomed him in, and DerVVuflamn who added the forum has a topic dedicated as an index to all the scripts within the archives board.

It appears that if you asked DerVVulfman What's up as an RMers, he would reply it was spriting spriting and spriting. Seeing so much activity encouraged Ti-Max on seeing so much activity, though this week's activity by DerVVulfman was crafting massive spritesheets for three different swords.

When Remi-chan appeared within the Maps and screenshots thread, she was thrilled to see Solitaire come by for a visit. And after that, posted a screenie from a battle that she re-coded and rebalanced between Kara and her game's heroines while suggesting a video appearing in the near future.

This week, Starmage was overjoyed by a funny penguin meme was made for Stellar Bewitching (Remastered) by Apho.

Early this week, Ace_V needed some advice on How to switch Immortality OFF? of a battler when previously applied within the Troops database. Ti-Max thought it was part of an evented system but DerVVulfman relayed that it was a built-in flag and supplied some code that allowed Ace_V to turn off the immortality when desired. However, DerVVulfman pointed out that the enemy may die immediately upon the flag's removal if its HP was reduced down to zero as it still took damage during combat. Remi-chan was surprised, replying the ability to remove the immortal flag existed within RPGMaker VX. But on later examination, DerVVulfman noted that both XP and VX would only remove the flag from the battler if a "Knockout" Death state were applied. And after scouring RPGMaker VXAce and MV code, suggested that no other iteration of RPGMaker appeared to have that feature.

Feel free to tag along as Starmage Continues Her Arts and Training Journey. Just as she did last week, her journey set her upon quests to dabble with fanart illustrations. The first was an elvish lass wht bloody blade and eldrich flame in hand. And the second, a ginger swordsman fashion model sporting some Delvin Klein briefs, making even a slime swoon.

This week, DerVVulfman relayed that continued work based on the archives was still among Updates and Happenings. But not that new forums were being archived, but that he was working upon a main index for all the archived scripts acquired.

Early this week, the number of appearances US President Trump in the Middle East hit the News of the World, be it lifting sanctions against Syria, Qatar reacting to criticism of the plane gifted to the US, the release of an American Hostage held by Hamas, and the possibility of talks with Iran. In Europe, Germany suggests it will meet the 5% GDP commitment to NATO dues while the G5 Committee get ready to meet in Rome to discuss matters such as the Ukraine/Russia war. And while Ukraine's President indeed went to Istanbul for a face-to-face with Russia's, Putin was a no-show and sent a delegation to instead mock Zelenskyy. Panama asks the US to deal with cleanup after the last administration's migrant surge, the Wisconsin Judge who tried to defy ICE agents claiming her actions were under Judicial Immunity, former President Biden diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer, and more hit this week's news.
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Social media giants are facing the brunt of criticism in this week's News of the Cyber World, be it the annoyance of Europeans at Meta's new AI chat bot, Amazon looking to regain their EU's Parliament Badges after issues stemming from worker's rights and no-shows, and a database breack from TikTok may cost them plenty. Europe-wide ban on social media for underage youths and Youtube using AI to push advertisements into the most viewed portions of videos watched also hit this week's cybernews.

Spritework appears to be What's up with our RMers based upon the screen shots presented. DerVVulfman displayed a female Half Kaiser battler brandishing a makeshift spear template, claiming he will be focusing upon swords in the near future. And Remi-chan revealed spritework by our forum's Rune (or Xiie in other sites), the character of Patricia nearly complete.

Early this week, Solitaie returned and gazed upon Remi-chan's work within the Maps and screenshots thread. Following that, she posted a pair of animated shots of her own, both cavernous areas with her own stylized tilework with shadow effects revealed. But not just gifs, but a youtube video with the actual gameplay within her maps were presented.

A new complete game has arrived this week, so be on the lookout for Bip-bip of the Eye! Crafted by Starmage, and a sequel to a game she made for a friend's birthday, it is a short game with a focus upon exploration and discovery, inspired by Elder Scrolls Morrowind and Eurocenter Games's (now Toonslab's) Graal Ol' West. Admittedly, not fleshed out, she suggests features like swimming need some work.

For those who do not use the Enterbrain engine, DerVVulfman released an early version of the Guide to Good Programming with Game Maker. An article created for Game Maker 4.0 by Allen Cheung, our resident werewolf had this within his backup files for two decades before release. However, it is a document that discusses proper code formatting, variable types, concepts such as inheritance, and much more.

An update was made to Starmage's Free Resource Packs, this week still focusing upon nature itself. Three new full body portraits of sort, you will have access to a slender humanoid flower with red petals surrounding its pleasant face, a rather annoyed flying pea-pod man with stark red eyes, and a muscular man-hornet with a blood-tinged stinger and a massive curve-blade sword,

During Starmage's Arts and Training Journey, she was compulsed into a quest. Our wanderer had been booned to illustrate an individual before before his battle with a dark lord. However, this daring piece of art is without a hint of armor to show off this hero's strong arms and toned abs.

Some may not have been aware that she was under the surgeon's knife a week ago. But while she was in the hospice, illustrations and sketches were being generated for Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing!. The main protagonists of Junked made an appearance with focus given to Solistace. But immediately after, characters from Fantasia appeared with the Nekomimi-like Grace, Wi caught vaping, and more.

More news came out about Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld which may ruin Nintendo's chances. By that, Palworld has a list of products that use the various game mechanics which Nintendo had only just recently attempted to patent. And with that, it suggests that Nintendo's patents will be re-examined and possibly considered void. Such games include Ark, Tomb Raider, Craftopia, Titantall, Final Fantasy 14, and many more.

The News of the World involved peace talks between the nations of India and Pakistan, and the apparent ceasefire by the Houthis on ships in the Red Sea. Meanwhile, trade agreements were reached between the US and the UK and between the US and China. There is that, and politicians caught on bodycam arrested after skirting security within a prison.

If you were wondering What's up with the RMers in the forum, DerVVulfman is continuing his work on spriting weapons for his Half Kaiser Battler resources, finishing his work on rifles and now about to begin work on shortbow animations. Steel Beast 6Beets was curious if there were more animations available per weapon, which DerVVulfman acknowledged. Meanwhile, there was a discussion about the early days of the RPGMaker engine's appearance and the translations that popped up before RPGMaker XP's official edition arrival outside of Japan.

Starmage came by and applied a new patch to Heroes of the Seasons, one that increases the strength of mercs encounered and magic applied. Likewise, the names of the gameplay stages have been updated to more clearly distinguish game progress with game difficulty.

Early this week, the News of the World was that the Miniral Rights deal between US President Trump and Ukraine's President Zalenskyy was signed, though it got severe pushback by Russia's Vladimir Putin who stated Ukraine was going to cease to be and once again threatened the US with nukes. But as Putin pushes troops for battleground gains, their strategy flounders as they have incurred heavy losses there and in the Black Sea following a Ukrainian Drone attack. For illegal immigration in the US, two more nations may consider taking those deported. Two more of the unaccompanied minors lost by the Biden Administration have been rescued, this time from sex traffickers based in California. And of Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was deported back to El Salvador, more news about his wife's spousal abuse charges appear. China provocation is increasing in South Korea, first with individuals with high powered cameras taking photographs at military bases, critics looking at China interfering in their upcoming presidential election, and increasing their naval deployment in the waters around South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines. Mexican Sewage flowing into the US, a Biden-era Censorship office uncovered, India and Pakistan flexing their naval muscles, Hamas looking at arson as a legitimate military tactic and more hit this week's news.

This week the News of the Cyber World has been bad for Big Tech as one Federal Judge blasts Apple for Anti-Trust violations, Google's CEO is tries to fight its own Anti-Trust court case defending its monopoly, Google, LinkedIn and California in serious trouble with sharing private health care data online, and TikTok confirmed sharing personal data to the CCP despite assurances. However, online and AI safety is taking center satage as the US House of Representatives passes legislation to criminalize nonconsensual deepfakes, and a Judge has allowed Elon Musk to sue Sam Altman and keep OpenAI public and not marketed. Crypto-Entrepreneurs in France targeted by kidnappers, China's competition to eBay freezing in the US market, Apple pulling iPhone production out of China and more hit this week's cybernews.

This week, Starmage presented a Lets Play video of her game, Project: Echelon, a 90 minute game as played by BugFragged, someone familiar with Starmage's Rave Heart series,

Another BugFragged let's play video entered the forum as Starmage shows off the 90 minute gameplay of The Final Prayer. The opening alone surprised the video's host as events and characters by Starmage were quite apparent within the surprising conflict at the game's start.

Artistic creativity does not belive in time tables. Know then that a twelth composition has now appeared within DoubleX Music Room, a composition entitled "Wish Them The Best". A lightly energetic piece, it reflects how one may find their heart's desire in a relationship with another and how they present a happy and well wishing attitude. However, the bridge quickly lessens a little before returning to its bright melody once more.

As Starmage continues on her Arts and Training Journey, she decided to travel down the road of character art. For this, she presented three line art renders she has been working upon that are intended for a free collection of character portraits.

Now beginning this past week, Starmage's Free Character Packs are here. Large character full portraits for any RPG or Visual Novel game, she reveals three Spring dieties which were crafted for Itch.Io's RPG Maker Asset Contest hosted by GotchaGotchaGames, and are free for use in commercial or non-commercial games. Her first diety is a goddess with skin of charcoal, clad in bright orange as if heading to a beach party. Her second, another god dess with pale apple green and a short dress of fern, her magenta hair a stark contrast. And the last diety a god of skin arctic, horns of a ram from his forehead, and not much more than a loin cloth worn.

While this week's News of the World was focused upon the loss of Pope Franis, many wonder who the next as the College of Cardinals prepares to gather at the Vatican to make that decision. With the Easter cease fire over, Ukraine and Russia trade attacks once more, Kyiv-aligned operatives against Russia blowing up a major railway to the front lines while Moscow has claimed its forces have retaken the Kursk region while finally admitting it has indeed deployed North Korean troops to the frontlines. For illegal aliens within the US, the Supreme Court granted leniency on those who are applying to voluntarily leave the US without prosecution. However, other judges within the US have been caught violating the law, one Judge in New Mexico disbarred and arrested for harboring a Tren De Aragua member in possession of multiple firearms while another in Wisconsin taken into custody along with the illegal migrant whom she tried to help evade further arrest. And tensions in the Middle East couldn't be higher as the Houthis threatened further escalation against the United States, this despite the Houthis being the terror group attacking any traffick in the Red Sea. And as the US begins to bolster Israel's defenses with transport aircrafts out of Germany, Trump is working to have talks with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over its nuclear program, this as reports show Iran intested in having a stake in the US's nuclear sector. The vehicular attack and murder spree at the Lapu Lapu Filipino Canadian Festival, China's first joint air force exercise with Egypt to show off its new warplanes, investigations into illegal fundraising tactics, and more hit this week's news.
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If you were curious as to What's up with any RM developer, DerVVulfman continued working on his windows-like widgets project, and now has a funtional Drive, Folder and File List box collection. He stated it needs work, adding a dropdown if optional patterns are present to limit files by their extensions and handling the way the text appears within the lists.

This week, Starmage released the first trailer for Project: Echelon, a sci-fi game where a rag-tag band of skilled individuals must set off and face an invasion from outside their galaxy. Exploration, drama, battles, and if the trailer is of any indication, a heavy metal soundtrack.

A trailer has emerged, showcasing the first-person dungeon exploration and combat of The Final Prayer by Starmage. But do not let that fool you as The Final Prayer is a rich story that takes Isolde, a princess separate from the common rabble, and throws her into the real world as dark forces threaten not only her, but her people and entire kingdom.

It was two weeks ago that a practice sketch was made depicting a chaotic angel tested the strength of three young maidens. However, it was this week that one can behold within Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing The Cosmic Sniper Fyori and her three cousins in full color glory. But do not let the roseate of her apparel lul you, for she brandishes both blade and ballistics in this bout with her barely bound bretheren. As most oft, a youtube video of her speed draw is also available for your viewing and listening pleasure, this time condensing fourteen hours into but less than twenty minutes.

This week, we are pleased to announce a successful run to Support Save-Point! With the current subscriptions, the board's hosting fees will be fully funded. However, do not get the wrong opinion as more funding is desired to cover other options such as off-site backups. Still, such costs have not been calculated as the fees for such are in flux.

This week, the conflicts in the Middle East took center stage in the News of the World as it was revealed that both China and Yemin, now sanctioned by the U.S. Trump Administration, have been funding and aiding the Houthis and their attacks in the Red Sea. And while the arsonist who torched a U.S. Governor's house in protest against Israel and the Israel/Hamas war, Hamas itself is now facing an unprecedented financial crisis, though it has weathered financial losses in the past. A temporary Easter ceasefire offered by Russia exists, but Ukraine is wary as Russian troops have repeatedly broken past ceasefires. But if it holds, U.S. President Trump hopes it may lead to a final peace deal. And for an afterthought, two of Democrats from the U.S. Congress have spent nearly a quarter million dollars on private jets the past couple of months, spending more money per flight that what most American makes in months, claiming to fight against Oligarchy.

For those curious What's up among our RMers, DerVVulfman took a break from spriting and went back to working on his Windows-like widget system. However, he discovered that his use of the Chdir command was interrupting the content loaded pathways in his project. When kyonides inquired why he used such an option, DerVVulfman relayed the command was used in a number of scripts, citing at least two. It was not long after that DerVVulfman returned and gave a shout that he was able to successfully replace the command and completed two more of the widgets he apparently has planned.

This week, Starmage invites all back to the Galaxy of Xenres. A mysterious wormhole appears, an unearthly structure emerges, and a band of heroes heads out in their starship to investigate the site in Project: Echelon. A mixture of science fiction and otherworldy entities, Starmage's game developed with RPGMaker MZ will keep you engaged in a character driven story with fast paced combat and galactic exploration.

A new chapter in the chronicles of Vyen appears. Starmage's latest tale, The Final Prayer, has you lead Princess Isolde of Respene as she and her kingdom are threatened with extinction by the ruthless Holy order of Gemeid. A first person 2.5D adventure, it contains custom art and a strategic combat system. It wan't long after its released that some issues were noticed and an upgrade was made available within mere hours of release.

Its been months since we had an update about Memorie. However, KDC showed up to say he's still with us and managed to retrieve both is current work and unexpectely some missing scripts from a previous build he recovered. But while he announced his return, he added that it may be his last post for a while as his Internet Provider is closing down and he will need to hunt for a new service.

As Starmage continues her Arts and Training Journey, she decided to take a detour and visit Remi-chan's world of Fantasia. As she did, one of Remi's character asked Starmage if he could pose for a fashion model portrait.