The Weekly Gazette 7-12-2026

[DerVVulfman]

(July 13 to July 19, 2026)

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 reported that RMRK is closing. Indeed, they too will be ending their service by the end of the year. He did relay tht he had already begun work on archiving the site as he is with RPGMaker Webs. This news was pretty much a surprise, to members like KDC, Ace_V and Remi-chan.

Another week has passed, and DerVVulfman announced that his RPGMaker Webs Archiving Endeavor is now venturing into the Tutorials forum. In fact, he not only finished grabbing all the resource threads, but had already grabbed all the XP, VX and MZ tutorials.

Occasions

MetalRenard wished to give a friendly reminder that the 2026 Game Jam begins the end of this month. A game jam based on Fae and/or Nature, it should be fun for all.

This week, Ebanyle came by after learning that RPGMaker Webs was closing down. She hadn't logged into Webs or the community at large in few years, but wanted to let everyone know she's still around.

Though having retired from the Game Making scene for a while, Ashborn had an itch and felt like getting back into development, though surprised that RPGMaker Webs was now closing. Ashborn has been in the community for over a decade.

General Chat

Last week, the realization that Microsoft repaired updates which would make life easier was What's on the mind of KDC. Indeed, this week he left Linux and installed Windows 10 which is more compatible with his setup. kyonides was worried it would be a problem for KDC, reminding him of Steam's discontinuance of Windows 10 support, but KDC replied it was related to older 32-bit Windows builds. Meanwhile, DerVVulfman relayed that Komodo Palace still sells non-Steam editions, though he also suggests catching them on sale.

Games Development

Complete Projects

Already released in time for the Beach Pride RPG Maker Jam is Her Heart, Anew 2, a game designed by Starmage and JoTerra854. A prequel over two-hundred years before the events of "Her Heart, Anew", you now see the World of Yven mere decades into the age of Arcane Renaissance, and embark upon an adventure as an elven crusader tasked to rescue a missing lord. A tale of self discovery awaits.

Tutorials

This past week, DerVVulfman began working on acquiring all of the TUTORIALS from RM WEBS, and made significant progress. He is only downloading the first page of each thread within, unless the thread called for multiple pages. However, he had archived all the tutorials within the board's RPGMaker XP, VX and RPGMaker MV subforums.

Material Development

Tools

Major advancements were made to the HiddenChest RGSS Player Executable, with kyondes adding pre-defined default settings if neither the INI fie nor input directory exists. He also added new test conditions so the executable knows whether it has suddenly lost focus as if the player decided to open a new application such as notepad, an instance that would normally leave the game paused. But on top of that, he added new toggle options to the audio module itself, options that could easily work with the new lost focus system to pause audio playback when inactive. There was an incident that required the removal of the first release with these new features, but its was followed by an upgrade edition that added new options to set start and end loop points with OggVorbis tracks for those that want music to begin with an opening flourish and execute a continuous loop without a return to the audio's opening. Do note that RPGMaker XP users have a differently constructed audio module, it being in the main RPG module itself, so some statements are slightly different between the two.

Resources Database

It took some time, but DerVVulfman finished scouring through the RESOURCES OF RM WEBS RESOURCES. After finishing his work on downloading pages from the Engine Specific resources, he turned his gaze to those resources that were meant to be general in design. However, he noted that many were still designed for one maker or another. And towards the end of his archiving, he found more and moer dead links until the last push forward, he found many threads with no salvagable content at all.

2D Resources

The desert is a harsh mistress, for those that come across her must be prepared. And prepared is a soldier that has been added to the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. Clad in khakis d wearing vest armor in camo, a new figure has appeared. With brown crewcut hair, this is a new military figure ready to set himself out among the dunes.

Creativity Section

Art and Design

The gallery within the forum's museum might think there was a bit of monkey business going on when she came by with the next piece for display. But there are those that are going ape with the new portrait within Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing! With wavy locks of marigold, Trixie lives up to her name as someone that is completely unpredictable. And woe for anyone who thinks that marriage settled her down, this simian socializer is a real party animal. But the saying in vino veritas sadly describes her well, for in alcohol her anger is released. To Remi-chan's surprise, this was a work that took less than six hours to create, even with a full body portrai with a normal humanist anatomy. Perhaps it was that this is one of the few works where the subject actually dons footwear. Be that as it may, the Misfortune of Black Friday has a speed draw for any who wishes to see her creation.

Well, that's it for this week.

“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory." - Bruce Lee (1940-1973)

PROSPECTIVE GAZETEERS!

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