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Posted by: StrangeAutomaton - 01-20-2025, 01:53 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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We ran out of drive space, and expanding the filesystem failed. Thankfully, I backup before any operation like this, so I was able to get us back up on a brand new server. There should be no lost posts, and everything should *just* work. that said, if I missed a tweak or something in the migration somewhere and a bug shows up, please do let me know.
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| The Weekly Gazette 01-05-2025 |
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Posted by: DerVVulfman - 01-13-2025, 06:00 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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(January 6 to January 12, 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
Announcements and Updates
Another week has passed, and it appears that there will no longer be any Server Crashes. With Kirito's necessary upgrade, he thinks everything is now working fine and hopefully won't rear its ugly head any time soon.
Development Discussion
It is easy to catch up with the game development efforts of other members in the forum. And if you wish to let others know about the struggles you are enduring, you are free to let everyone know What's up as an RMer. For DerVVulfman, his Layered Spritesheet Tool has been a continuous project, and is now working to revise its accompanying help file, not only to describe its inner workings but to include a simplified startup chapter. eanwhile, Remi-chan has been performing a massive rework of her game's menu and database, adding dozens of new in-game objects that can be viewed. The rewards for accomplishments performed have now been revised. And lastly, Remi-chan received new artwork from her character design artist, a delicate and bashful catgirl, who can now be seen within some of the screenshots she supplied.
Early this week, DerVVulfman returned to work on his Layered Spritesheet tool, and visited the Maps and screenshots thread to show off the work he's put into it so it can also be used to create faceset resources. And while Solitaire received some advice on how to acquire excellent map screenshots within the RPGMaker editor, Remi-chan appeared to post a few screenshots to present new graphic resources she recently acquired. One of the screenshots caught Solitaire's attention, reminding her of a favorite game of her youth.
Upcoming Projects
Released as an early demo just last month, kyonides has been working steadfastly upon Klans XP throughout the week. Early this week, he developed an economy and clan reputation system, touched up the display graphics to be more legible while offering a vast number of shield colours, and set up both a difficulty setting, initial resources system, and in-game timer display to the save screens.
Resources Database
2D Resources
This week, you will certainly see why a resource thread is entitled the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. For this week, Ace_V crafted resources for those wishing to relive their favorite FIFA games. Both tilework for the grassy field and charactersets for the ball have been presented to all.
Music and Audio
For those who are working on a science-fiction game and want a score with some flare, the Original Music and Sound FX created by Eric Matyas may be what you are looking for, "Nightmare City Grid" is a quick-paced melody that would fit in a world where the hero is in a literal maze of city streets with no knowlege where to go. And if you have a cutecene that needs a melody that builds and builds, "Cyber Mean Streets" can guide you straight. If the original composition isn't powerful enough, do not worry. Eric composed two alternate variations of the melody, one with a darker and heavier opening whilst the other with a vocal harmony.
A somber composition has appeared within DoubleX Music Room and is DoubleX's eleventh published song. "Helpless Hopelessness" is a delicate melody that begins with a pan flute and bells before strings begin to pull on your heart.
Art and Design
Two more images appeared within DerVV's Stream FrankenArts, two more occassions where DerVVulfman replaced characters from ChronoCross with Siletrea as she continued to stream the game on Twitch. He even relayed a few things he had to tweak and adjust while working on the pictures, edits that Solitaire thought were interesting and fun.
If you peek into Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing!, you would see a flat-color render of an alien Legionnaire General. Not intended as a finished work, Remi suggests that the General will be fully rendered some time next week.
In yet another MS doodle, Solitaire expresses more why It Ain't Easy Bein' Da Mess Cleana' of One's Neighborhood. But this time, the doodle was an animated gif, one that is a variation of wanting your cake and eating it too,
It may be a surprise to some that Solitaire's Bluegirl Art//Solitairy Artworks were a repost. These illustrations were seen by DerVVulfman who encouraged Solitaire to return some of her random pieces of art. But more confident, she continued with sketches for a proposed comic, and returned with the history and evolution of her Bluegirl.
It was a couple months ago when Solitaire ventured in to draw a CRAZY WILD OUTLAW WOLF! (+OTHER RANDOM STUFF). But upon her return, she practically dedicated her topic to a MS Paint-like Comic strip entitled "Books on Computers". One forum's loss is our gain.
Literature
When one peeks through the pages of Remi-chan's Writing Snippets~ , they usually get glimpses of content planned for her game entitled Fantasia. However, this time, we get to see past and future combined as Remi-chan presents pages of villainous introductions, those already introduced within her game and those not yet having appeared. For more dramatis, Remi-chan presented some of the dialogue with music backgrounds through the use of Soundcloud links.
Filmography
After leaving the ticket booth, your admission to Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre is a certainty. But what is not a certainty are that the boss battles within Remi-chan's game will include pre-recorded cinematic cutscenes. Influenced a tad by Elden Ring, she admits that the plans are tentative. But for an example of the dozens that lay before her, she crafted the boss battle introduction scene with the Insidious Architect, with vocals by PhoenixAstra.
Well, that's it for this week.
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." - Jeff Valdez
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| The Weekly Gazette 01-05-2025 |
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Posted by: DerVVulfman - 01-06-2025, 06:00 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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December 30, 2024 to January 5, 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
Announcements and Updates
Kirito spoke of the recent Server Crashes the forum had been experiencing, the ram not suitable enough at the time to perform maintenance tasks for the sheer size of the database. It required a reboot, but following a pair of recent server downtimes, kirito doubled the physical ram which should solve the issue with necessary memory for the automated maintenance procedures.
General Chat
Who you calling "Chicken!?" That would be the question to ask either kyonides or DerVVulfman if you chose to ask them What are YouTubing? once you get them to stop laughing. If more hilarity, you can watch a video Remi-chan presented that roasts dome video game developers, even she being roasted in the foreseeable future.
Violence in the U.S. hit the News of the World this week, the first military veteran that joined ISIS who drove a truck through New Orleans' historic Bourbon Street on a mission of murder, the second also a veteran who committed suicide before blowing up his Tesla Cybertruck in front of Trump Hotel ,Las Vegas. Of the first, the FBI delivered contradictory information while the Police Chief admitted not using obstacles that could have prevented the attack. Of the second, the Vegas police thanked Elon Musk for the tools to aid in their investigation. While the motives of the two were totally different, both veterans served at the same military base and both used the same vehicle renting application, a vehicle renting company now under scrutiny for lackadaisical safety and security practices. Taking the New Orleans massacre as a call to arms, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in New York City on New Year’s Day for “intifada”, and four gunmen opened fire in New York's Amazura nightclub killing ten. A U.S. soldier received a Grand Jury Indictment for his attempt to join a foreign terrorist organization, the head of the US DHS repeated statements that everyone entering the US is vetted despite those nations of origin refuse to share needed information, a new migrant caravan begins their march through Mexico, and much more hit this week's news.
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Development Discussion
Steel Beast 6Beets relayed What's up as an RMer when he had to perform an end run-around to re-install RPGMaker XP, though DerVVulfman had no difficulties with the same type of system. Yet, Remi-chan had similar issues which prevents her from using RPGMaker VX. There was a short query and reply between kyonides and Steel Beast 6Beets on which of the enterBrain engines was crafted in Delphi. And after that, Remi-chan revealed new spritework supplied by her artist and updated screenshots from her current game.
In the Maps and screenshots thread, kyonides has a new update visible within his Klans project, adding a start button to his system whilst preventing it from being enabled until a faction is chosen.
Upcoming Projects
The Alpha version has been released. Klans XP by kyonides has now reached a point where you can choose from three pre-defined clans and enter the map with the clan headquarters.
Code Support
JayRay put forth a query to see if Big Maps could be adjusted to allow some maps to act as filler, suggesting other games such as NeverWinter Nights or Skyrim. However, DerVVulfman pointed out that none of the Elder Scrolls games after Daggerfall used filler maps, that they were all unique. And he detailed why filler maps would not be a good idea in general. But when the topic of expanding the maps beyond 999, Mel brought up a topic that should alleviate that need.
Resources Database
2D Resources
A new characterset has appeared amongst the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. True, only an animated water fountain, but Ace_V had some end-of-year committments that needed to be fulfilled.
Music and Audio
With the start of the new year, we get set of new compositions by Eric Matyas who is still Sharing His Original Music, and the two pieces could not be more diverse. His first work entitled "Bump in the Night" is a dark piece befitting crime ridden alleyways at night or a sewersystem with something malevolent awaiting. In a sharp contrast, "Rockin' Monster Beach Party" is a fast paced, light hearted melody with resounding heavy thump.
Art and Design
This week, we got blessed with a new wing to our forum's gallery, now opening a wing for jursed art. The gallery's grand opening was delayed for a time as the links to Jursed's paintings were flawed, but was corrected once DerVVulfman made that aware. Once corrected, the museum patrons were able to gaze upon new art, be it classic acrylics or more modern digital works.
If one wishes to gaze upon DerVV's Stream FrankenArts, they would gaze upon more substitution of characters from ChronoCross replaced with Siletrea's visage. However, there was an unexpected instance where the likeness of Siletrea was not the norm.
Well, that's it for this week.
“I always cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.” - W.C. Fields (1880-1946)
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Posted by: StrangeAutomaton - 01-01-2025, 11:05 PM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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Over the holidays Save-Point crashed, and I just restarted it to keep it going. I was on vacation. Anyway, I got home, analyzed the problem. Our database had outgrown it's current RAM allocations - so maintenance tasks were causing it to run out of RAM. I looked up the cost of increasing the RAM on the server, and it would run us around double. I then noticed what the default allocation of buffer the server assigns to it's processes. I was able to double that, and it gets us past the issue so the server *should* stop crashing. That said, I can't increase it again with our current available RAM, so next time we outgrow and I need to bump that figure up, we'll have to upgrade the server with more RAM. It's not even like we need that RAM for normal operation, just when we do the normal maintenance tasks to ensure that the database is still healthy and to prevent data corruption because there is just so much data in there now.
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| The Weekly Gazette 12-29-2024 |
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Posted by: DerVVulfman - 12-30-2024, 06:00 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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December 16 to December 29, 2024
(Bi-Weekly Edition)
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
Announcements and Updates
There were more Forum Updates Happening in relation to the RPG Maker Central archive, DerVVulfmanat first thinking he had archived the very last. But his stubborness at being complete forced him to check online for any indication of the games posted within RMC to be found elsewhere. And indeed, he found just over a dozen more which made the archive as complete as possible. Both Ace_V and Remi-chan were impressed with all the hard work. In victory, DerVVulfman touted a new forum support banner that lists both Creation Asylum and RPG Maker Central as sites archived.
The site is stull dealing with some ups and downs as it was down late last Saturday and into Monday. The issue similar to the last incident, and again with no lost content. Kirito made an appearance, despite he being on vacation and away from the serve, to put on a virtual bandage. But he stated he would look at the error logs to discern what was happening.
Occasions
Weeks after he joined our community, tsuchiphox made an appearance. While thoroughly enjoying RPGMaker XP, Tsuchi admits to being bad at making games. However, DerVVulfman gave some support and inquired into Tsuchi's skill set. After presenting some pixel art and screenshots, Remi-chan gave her support and said the art was more imaginative than other games around.
takeiya is a news columnist by trade, and game playing enthusiast. He tried coding in his youth, but is more artistic in his creativity. DerVVulfman pointed him in the direction of our Creativity board if the mood and muse hits. And greetings were also given by Remi-chan.
After visiting the forum time ant time again, faint127 decided to take a chance and join the forum. Immediately, Remi-chan showed up with greetings.
General Chat
If you wished to ask anyone " What are YouTubing?", you would have found that DerVVulfman was enjoying a musical light show before Christmas.
For the past couple of weeks, some of the News of the World revolved around US President Elect Trump, Georgia Prosecutor Fani Willis removed from prosecuting and Canada beginning to enforce border security amidst the threat of Trump's tariffs. And of the outgoing US President, the Texas Attorney General won a lawsuit preventing Biden from selling any more of the border wall. The events of January 6, 2021 remains in question as it was revealed the FBI had two dozen sources at and within the Capital, and evidence has appeared indicating that Liz Cheney was involved in witness tampering against Trump. Russia hit the news as it continues to bombard Kyiv, but more recently being the main suspect in the downing of a commercial Azerbaijan Airlines flight. Two brothers involved with the Manchester Airport Assault upon two police officers have now been officially charged. And in Croatia, a 7-year old girl and six others wounded when an 18 year old went on a stabbing spree at the Precko Elementary School. The court case for the United Healthcare CEO murder took an unexpected turn when details from the suspect's own notebook revealed the months-long planning. The hundreds of North Korean casualties conscripted into Russia's war against Ukraine, the dissolution of Germany's parliament prior to a snap election, and the death of Former President Jimmy Carter also hit the news.
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Development Discussion
If you wish to share your work with others, you can reveal What's up with other RMers, like how Remi-chan received more resources from her character sprite artist, displaying new sprites and new videos. Meanwhile, DerVVulfman stated he was working on a set of RPGMaker XP scripts based upon the 2007 SDK collection while keeping it compliant with kyonides's HiddenChest project, and relayed how a change within the newer Ruby language forced a change with SDK mechanics. Kyonides and DerVVulfman were at odds over certain commands and means to retrieve object references. While DerVVulfman reported that the command used within kyonides's sample code was for a latter edition of Ruby, kyonides returned with a link to official documentation as proof.
If you wish to see how a game's art is progressing, then venture into the Maps and screenshots thread and behold five screenshots from Remi-chan's game despite the use of a placeholder for one of her game's villainesses.And for kyonides, gaze upon the progress of his Klans system with icons representing the various factions available and the descriptive text for a select clan to the right.
Complete Projects
Journey to the Galaxy of Xerxes, become the bodyguard of Princess Ellemine and get embroiled in an interstellar feud as Rave Heart is now available at 50% off during Steam's Winter Sale. But it is a limited time, and the sale ends on the 1st of January.
Upcoming Projects
Starmage's Heroes of the Seasons is the perfect game for the Holiday season. And this week, you can find it on Steam for half price during its Winter Sale, ending on the 1st of January. Journey to the World of Vyen and defend the village from the Goblin King who wishes to destroy the festivities.
Code Support
Ace_V has been working on his game for some time, but found issues with Parts of various menus remaining on screen even after exiting the menu. He felt it wasn't his ring menu that had the issue, nor other menus that also had elements remain after exiting. And that was an opinion that DerVVulfman felt. And after following DerVVulfman's suggestion on how to track down the actual culprit within his game, Ace_V found the issue and quickly fixed the problem.
Tutorials
Following a recent post within the What's Up RMers topic, kyonides returned to his Ruby Scripting to provide a discussion on the use of Symbols versus the use of Strings when acquiring data, that they are by intent unique identifiers to a given method or instance variable.
Tools
There was some back and forth regarding kyonides's HiddenChest RGSS Player Executable topic; first with DerVVulfman unable to locate his last version which was followed by errors that DerVVulfman encountered. Some noted issues were that the Input.repeat? feature was broken and that text did not compress as it always had within the draw_text method. There was banter between the two over kyonides's new 'no_squeeze' method, but repairs to that and the inclusion of a new default setting were made. And while kyonides rolled back changes he made to the Audio system, the issue with the Input.repeat? method is still labeled pending.
Scripts Database
RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine
In an effort to promote compatability with other scripts under his belt, kyonides revisited his Non Kombatant script for RPGMaker XP and updated the alias command and shortened the replacement method name so other custom methods will find ease of use.
RPGMaker VX/VXAce (RGSS2/3) Engines
In an effort to promote compatability with other scripts under his belt, kyonides revisited his Non Kombatant VX + ACE set and updated the alias command and shortened the replacement method name so other custom methods will find ease of use.
Resources Database
2D Resources
Sometimes, the classic vaults that hold treasure within a game are not enough. As such, the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V now includes a modernized alternative to the typical treasure chest sprite.
Music and Audio
Feel free to place an ear to the wall and listen within DoubleX's Music Room. For this past week, "Give Up Everything" is his 10th published song. According to DoubleX, the composition was to express how one may feel if things were so traumatic, that they would seek to end. However, the playful piano melody and the chimes makes me question if DoubleX meant to express relief after unceasing trauma.
Art and Design
Our forum's museum now has a new wing, one solely dedicated towards Phantom Star Art, and within its hall you will find numerous pieces by xxphantomxstarxx dedicated towards Sonic the Hedgehog. The clash between Mephiles and Shadow from Sonic '06 headlined the gallery exhibition followed by two renders of the winged master jewel-thief herself, and even some content that is available on RedBubble.
It was two years ago since the stylized art of Remi-chan's Tarot deck graced the corridors of her Neato Arty thread thing!. But since years have passed,she chose to revisit, revise and reveal her updated 2024 set. Meanwhile, Remi-chan also chosen to display a pair of pencil sketches which she believes may become new pieces of art within the coming year.
It may come as a surprise, but a wing within the forum's museum was dedicated towards DerVV's Stream FrankenArts. According to the Resident Werewolf, he had been creating advertisement shots ahead of Let's Play streams run by Siletrea. In the first week, he said his renders were just for fun, superimposing Siletrea's vTuber model within background screen objects. But while the renders within his first post appeared simple, the second post he made was more in-depth and detailed as character likenesses were totally usurped. But what to come next? Within the post, she made mention of extreme work done for Siletrea's Monster Hunter World streams.
Literature
Within the pages of Remi-chan's Writing Snippets~, you will be able to glance at upcoming events within her game's universe where enemies become allies and where heroes and demons form alliances. But the page in which Remi chose to recite is merely an opening for the Frostqueen to reveal her true diabolic and terrifying nature.
Well, that's it for this week.
"Kids are expensive, I didn’t even realize how broke I was until last year someone stole my identity and it ruined her life." - Kate Davis
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| The ups and downs of a forum. Hardy Har Har. |
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Posted by: DerVVulfman - 12-24-2024, 12:39 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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Dear friends,
Yes, our site was down again. This time for a longer period because Kirito Went for a vacation, one not scheduled back until early January and one where he would basically be away from the server entirely. Even so, he did pop within after finding notification within our discord and managed to reboot the system.
That is all which was required, a reboot protocol (of some sort). ![[Image: cool.gif]](https://www.save-point.org/images/smilies/ejlol/cool.gif)
To actually quote Kirito...
hey, I restarted the database, that's what keeps crashing. save-point is back up again. it's just a bandaid, I don't get home until next week, then I can do a in depth look at what's actually going on.
anyway, I'll write a unit script that will monitor the database for errors and restart it automatically when I get home. I still want to go over the logs and what not to prevent it from crashing in the first place. server rebooting, package updates to the OS
So while it may happen once more (the chances of it being iffy in itself), the issue should be resolve rather soon.
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| The Weekly Gazette 12-08-2024 |
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Posted by: DerVVulfman - 12-16-2024, 06:00 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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(December 9 to December 15, 2024)
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
Announcements and Updates
This week, there was much insofar as Forum Updates Happenings, the completion of the RPG Maker Central's tutorial board and complete games boards being fully archived, though a new list of available works to be added and archived appeared. And the recent downtime which was resolve whilst not losing any content was discussed. And along with that, it was revealed that the forum's own Scripts Database has less than a dozen pieces of software remaining to separate between their individual game engines. This while the administrator of the now vanished RPG Maker Central had repeat appearances.
General Chat
This week's News of the World is the shocking aftermath of the end of the Assad regime, most of Europe now rethinking and halting asylum claims until Syria stabalizes. And for Russia, their future in Syria has become tenuous at best, as it has been supporting the Assad regime for decades. While support for Ukraine continues, NATO's chief suggests that member nations need to provide more support as it had during the Cold war against Soviet Russia. However, Germany's Tino Chrupalla suggests exiting NATO unless it protects Russia's interests despite NATO's directive to protect Europe from Russian aggression. Russia attempted to rewrite history, claiming the 600,000 casualties as reported were instead suffered were those of Ukrainians. The actual numbers were reported by both Ukraine's Armed forces and NATO's secretary general. And in the US, mystery drones have been sighted flying in the East Coast over restricted areas, but assured by the DHS and FBI that they pose no security threat. However, that claim does not sit well with many; warnings by governors Democrat and Republcan alike, warnings they could be weaponized, and reports that they move faster than what the US has in stock. Former President Biden's removal of sanctions against Iran, the European Union's new sanctions against Russia, the resignation of the US FBI director, more North Koreans fighting on behalf of Russia in Ukraine, and more hit this week's news.
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Tools
When Tepe asked if the HiddenChest RGSS Player Executable by kyonides could be made to support the RPGMaker SDK from the 2007-2012 era, it was revealed by kyonides that the use of the latest version of Ruby had a specific restriction. While scripters had the ability to write fare that changed the inheritance property of a given class in the past, the current edition of Ruby is less lenient. After that, a discussion between how one may pass arguments into a method began between Zeriab and kyonides.
Resources Database
2D Resources
This week, our artist formerly known as aabb821 has since changed it. And upon celebration, he created a new topic to contain the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. Most of his work is modern in design, though some could be used in any game genre. And throughout the numerous posts he had made, you will find characterset of modern trucks, and Victorian era Phonographs, office laser copiers, shopping carts and public water fountains in which he chose to share.
Music and Audio
Ah, the playfully speedy rapping of a wood xylophone, the contrast of strings and brass, all combined to create a melody a skeleton would love. Upon discovery of the Original Music and Sound FX being shared by Eric Matyas, you would find his latest compostition entitled "Mischevious Spirits". But never forget that Eric has higher quality Ogg music packs.
Art and Design
Knowing her, one should expect that even the Christmas Season would not be immune to the Garbage Goddess's subject of choice. So upon entering. Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing, a scarlet clad demoness brandishing a ragged edged blade set against a sanguine night sky. This portrait took her a full twelve hours to create, and the Speed-draw she presents will show everyone how.
Well, that's it for this week.
"And now the sequence of events, in no particular order." - Dan Rather
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| The Weekly Gazette 12-08-2024 |
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Posted by: DerVVulfman - 12-09-2024, 06:00 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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(December 2 to December 8, 2024)
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
Announcements and Updates
More Forum Updates Happened regarding the archive of RPG Maker Central, the last of the Development Tools forum finally added, while DerVVulfman set his site upon the now-extinct forum's Tutorial board. In apparent awe, Kaz applauded DerVVulfman for retrieving what she felt was long-lost content. Seeing her reply, DerVVulfman asked to have the word spread.
General Chat
This weekend, the News of the World had its attention on Biden's sweeping 10-year pardon of his son. But as it is mere weeks before Donald Trump reassumes the Presidency, there's talk that Biden plans more sweeping carte-blanche pardons for Fauci whom lied about NIH funding to China, Christopher Wray who refused to testify in Congress, Nancy Pelosi who was in charge of security on January 6, and the whole Biden family including himself. But not long after, the murder of UnitedHealthcare's CEO hit the headlines, the murderer's photo released to the public. In a disturbing twist, a look-alike contest was held in New York not long after. In the Middle East, the ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel was endangered after the Biden Harris Administration falsly reported that Israeli surveillance drones violated the agreement. In response, Hezbollah opened fire at Israel once more. And in Syria, rebel forces performed a stunning raid that forced Bashar al-Asaad to flee, ending the most notorious tyrannies in the world, one that used chemical weapons against their own people. As a precaution, Israel moved tanks into the Golan Heights to deter the rebels from attempting to cross whilst also worrying that the rebels may also seize the same chemical weapons. Trouble exists in other nations around the world, such as in France where Macron's recently installed Prime Minister just received a vote of no confidence ending his tenure, the shortest in modern French history. The Romanian presidential election of Calin Georgescu was cancelled once revealed Russia not only meddled, but worked to ensure his victory. And following his failed attempt at Martial Law, South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol is now under investigation of treason itself. Mexico working to dissolve Migrant Caravans after talks with former President Trump, civilian Russian ships firing flares at German Helicopters in the Baltic, Netanyahu thanking President Trump for his threat to Hamas over the October 7th hostages, the grand reopening of Notre Dame after five years, and more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk
Events went up and down in the News of the Cyber World for Elon Musk as liberals now demonize the Tesla over Musk's current politics. However, his SpaceX Falcon 9 reusable rocket has now set a new record having now achieved 24 flights itself. Fingers pointed at Russia over claims of sabotage when a dedicated cable connecting Sweden and Finland's internet was cut twice overnight. While the head of the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) in the US urged anti-trust divisions to prosecute big tech platforms, Zuckerberg is looking for a way to be active in the upcoming Trump administration over tech policy. Intel's dismissal of its CEO, and Bitcoin also hit this week's cybernews.
Development Discussion
Anyone for an alien lizard in a floating bowl? That's what you will get if you asked Remi-chan What's up as an RMers. From reports, her sprite artist finished some work on a character named Kikiyo while Remi completed more work on revised game scenes.
In the Maps and screenshots thread, kyonides provided a glimpse into his latest project, a game HUD depicting the food and resources for the player's kingdom not unlike that used by Age of Empires. Meanshile, Remi-chan provided new screenshots of her own project with some revised character sprites and profiles.
Upcoming Projects
This week, kyonides announced a new project, a strategy-based kingdom management and army management system he dubbed Klans XP. a likely successor to his KLords project of 2021, it is intended to be a mix of Age of Empires and Lords of the Realm where you build your economy and military forces while aligning yourself among the various factions.
Resources Database
2D Resources
This week, aabb821 gifted us with his Tricycle sprite, a tuk-tuk or cycle-pedaled rickshaw seen often in Asia. It was one he had originally posted within Creation Asylum many years ago, and he just asks for due credit if put to use.
Music and Audio
If you are working on a game set within a technologically advanced cityscape and desire a piece to set an enthusiastic stage as the player gazes upon an architecture never before scene, then you may find the latest piece within Eric Matyas's Original Music and Sound FX very much desired. Entitled "The Streets of Cybertropolis", it has a quickly delivered beat with a soft and slow paced harmony accented by a myriad of synth and tech-wave instruments. More pieces of this quality may be underway, however Eric Matyas has now been commissioned to score another game from the studio that created "Devil's Hideout" which he had also scored. But do not fret if you wish to hire him yourself, for he is willing to hear.
Art and Design
Clad with vestments of white, outstretching wings with feathers alabaster and accented with gilt, the Overture of Mercy had appeared within Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing! Another character within the the 3.14 Multiverse of Remi-chan, this femme fatale is an angel most powerful. But do not let her title fool you into thinking she is anything but a ruthless machine of wholesale slaughter. It took ten hours for Remi to craft such a well-masked horror, and has a speed-draw video for proof.
Literature
It is easy to see that xxphantomxstarx is a fan of Sega's Speedy Hedgehog, so there is little surprise that the first chapter within Phantom's Random Writing topic would be an ode to the Cobalt-Quilled Rollerball. And of this chapter, the hero of so many games comes face-to-face with another hedgehog, one with a metallic gleam and hatred in his heart. As if working upon a novelization of Sonic 06, xxphantomxstarx worked to recreate the first battle between Sonic and Silver, and brings up the menace of Iblis itself.
JayVinci Studios
JayVinci Resources
The Resurrection of the "JayVinci" Sprites continues as JayRay began putting the Layered Spritesheet Tool by DerVVulfman to some use, even going so far as the motion/action list used in his Half Kaiser project. However, JayRay has reaffirmed he plans to develop his sprites with eight-frame/eight-directional animations.
Well, that's it for this week.
"I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet." - Angelina Jolie
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.
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| The Weekly Gazette 12-01-2024 |
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Posted by: DerVVulfman - 12-02-2024, 06:00 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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(November 25 to December 1, 2024)
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
Announcements and Updates
Of the Forum Updates Happening, DerVVulfman reported that he was finally done archiving the last of the graphic resources within the RPG Maker Central Archive. His next endeavor is the Developing Tools board.
General Chat
This week's News of the World was explosive, be it reports of a youth arrested in Germany for planning a pipe bomb attack, or that nine of Donald Trump's prospective cabinet have become targets of bomb threats. And while a ceasefire was put in place between Israel and Hezbollah, both sides have stated the other are in violation. In a surprise reversal, President Zelensky said he would agree to cede territory to Russia to end the war, but this to become a member of NATO. President Biden pardoning his son of his firearms and federal tax verdicts, a nation-wide strike in Italy threatening to shut the nation down, and Palworld' unexpected defense against Nintendo also hit this week's news.
Development Discussion
If you're curious to ask What's up with your fellow RMers, you'd find that Remi-chan finally went back to work on her project, and revamped much of her game's beginning. As an example, she presented a new let's play from the early part of her game with new graphics, new gameplay and new dialogue. And following that, she also received new content from both her sprite artist and portrait artist. On the flipside, kyonides is pondering how to create a strategy sandbox game akin to Age of Empires or Lord of the Realms, games where you send troops to take over regions of enemy territory. However, he is wondering how to implement factions into his project, tech trees, and the like within the RPGMaker environment.
Complete Projects
Just at the last minute, Starmage revealed that Steam had a half-price Autumn sale in which Rave Heart was able to take advantage. But it was only revealed the last day of the sale.
Upcoming Projects
On the last day of Steam's Autumn Sale, Starmage's Heroes of the Seasons was half price. But again, it was revealed on the last day, this past Thursday.
Scripts Databse
RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine
For users of the RPGMaker XP engine, kyonides put together the ToggleTimer XP script to give users more control over the game timer feature, allowing you to show or hide the timer display as wont, and position it as you will.
Music and Audio
When one visits the DoubleX Music Room, they have the option to select whatever piece from his budding library they wish And two new works have now appeared. His eighth composition, "Grief Indulgence" may have a recurrent melody throughout, but one that builds with anguish. And of DoubleX's ninth work, "It's All Over' is a melancholic threnody, one in which more instruments pile upon as if to reflect the forthcoming burdens perceived.
Art and Design
For those needing large, high-resolution textures for their woodwork, the Massive Library of Free Images that Eric Matyas now has a few more in which to choose. A new tileable wood texture now appears with a rough grain, but available both in green and dark walnut. And along with that, a new bark texture has appeared, one very rough and dark.
This week, Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing! now contains a new painting within its gallery, a painting of two dangerous women. One who exudes an air of calm, the other radiating a ravenousness appetite for power, yet both combined a powerhouse unmatched. Of course, a new Simian Speed Draw was also created so you can watch how Remi-chan created this work.
Literature
What now appears within Remi-chan's Writing Snippets~ is a small but important chapter from her current game. It heralds a battle to come, one where all of existence depends upon its outcome.
JayVinci Studios
JayVinci Resources
Roughly two years ago, the DaVinci Resurrections Actors project suffered a disaster when JayRay suffered a harddrive crash, only a faint scattering of his work remained. But after learning new tricks and techniques, his project has returned from its ashes.
Well, that's it for this week.
"So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?" - Christina Aguilera
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.
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Posted by: DerVVulfman - 10-09-2024, 12:06 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates
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Dear friends,
If anyone was in the forum from 11:00am to 11:15am EST, we did experience some downtime. This was not an issue with late payments, forum hacks or the like. It sadly was an issue with a software plug-in.
The plug-in, a Forum Stats display to replace the one we can no longer use, was designed around the forum software's architecture. However, it appears the plugin had a bad database structure because it used up all the board's memory and processes, resulting in crashing the server.
A reboot and removal of the plug-in resolved the situation. So the forum is back to nor---* 
...back to its usual performance. 
However, it appears there will be no return of the Forum Stats window in the near future.
MEANWHILE... The recreation of RPG Maker Central's software section continues. When last I posted three weeks ago, I boasted we had over 300 scripts from the now perished site. That number has tripled!
The forum now has over 900 main posts re-created within the RPG Maker Central Archives. They are being recreated oldest (or last visited) to newest, so no RPGMaker MV or MZ plug-ins have yet been posted. Oddly, there are a pair of RPGMaker VX scripts within the collective; an odd thing indeed when it previously went by RPGMakerVXAce.Net.
While working, the Internet Archive itself was down for roughly three hours, beginning at 3pm (EST). So 'tis a good thing that we will be carrying what content was able to be saved.
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