The Weekly Gazette 7-26-2026

[DerVVulfman]

(July 20 to July 26, 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

General Chat

Some thoughts towards the End User Licenses of certain game engines was On the mind of DerVVulfman, updating the threads to the games for all he could find. Meanwhile, Remi-chan is having issues with RPGMaker VX no longer working on her PC once more, and switching over to SteamOS and abandoning Windows, the constant message asking her to upgrade to Windows 11 having been a nagging problem. DerVVulfan noted that the Windws 11 upgrade notice stopped showing in the US, and should have stopped showing everywhere else this past April.

Games Development

Development Discussion

This week, the idea of a new RPGMaker XP editor is What's up with fellow RMers Son_Rukiri. His edition supports Ruby 4.0, an updated tilemap with infinite layer capabilities, and even a tile erasal tool. He admits the system is not near ready, but has tested gameplay. And screenshots include the Scripts Databse that can have sections collapsed and expanded like spoilers. And though she's been taking a break with some Palworld, Remi-Chan announced some breakthroughts with her game, the handling of a game freezing bug that is a systemic problem with RPGMaker MV and MZ, the updating of NWJS libraries which removed annoying delays in some dialogue scenes, and issues with Game Over scenes. Meanwhile, Xiie (or Save-Point's Rune) has bestowed the Unholy Butcher for Remi to use, and Remi-chan's character portrait has her bamboozled for another month.

Since receiving the character spritework for Xeltara, a harpy-like villainess, Remi-chan couldn't resis venturing into the Maps and screenshots thread to show her off in four separate scenes. A darkly lit cavern, the tops of mountain vistas, and even aboard what may be a space vessel of some sort, her wings reach out to soar for her talon-torn victims.

Complete Projects

Fan art keeps appearing for Rave Heart+ as BerryB sets his sight on more and more for Starmage. She received one of Chad wielding his massive broadsword with shimmering hues of amethyst glinting off the blade. But Applemango_OC set Chad back in his place with chibi paintworks of her own.

It has been five years since people were treated to a small developing world in 41st Century. But now, Rose Guardian returns to that world with a whole new gaming engine to release Star Knight Remake. Sporting music by MoonWind and Wingless Seraph, journey with a new cast of characters as the college aged heroes try to stop the invasion of their home world.

Tutorials

This week, DerVVulfman continued working on acquiring the TUTORIALS OF RPGMaker WEBS, beginning this week with the upload of all those within the RPGMaker VXAce subforum. Ater that, he returned two more times working upon the upload of those tutorials for RPGMaker MV. Though he is only halfway done with the tutorials for RPGMaker MV, he is nearing the end of the whole Tutorial board.

Material Development

Tools

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Scripts Database

RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine

It wasn't that long ago that KBuild XP hit the library, a script by kyonides that allows a game developer copy sections of a map and paste those tiles elsewhere with precision. However, the latest upgrade now allows one to copy and paste sections by their layer, be it the ground, lower or upper tile layers.

Though initially inspired to look back at his work from a false bug report, kyonides discovered issues with KBribe XP that incorrectly handled enemies being targeted. And following that, he also found that there was an issue with the bribery payment system. Fortunately, he performed a maintenance update to fix both issues.

RPGMaker VX/VXAce (RGSS2/3) Engines

For those game developers that worry that their epic battles may be too hard for the player, assistance has come their way with the Battle Swap & Last Resort by Ebanyle. Her script, designed for RPGMaker VXAce, grands the player the ability to change the makeup of the party whilst in battle. Though it may have compatability issues with scripts that may alter the battle system, it seems to work fine with the Theolized Sideview Battlescript and the YEA Battle Engine.

Resources Database

2D Resources

Despite how one lost within the sands of a desert would think they were in naught but a featureless realm bereft of water. However, the Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V would prove one wrong. For the silvery blue-haired elder among the desert nomades is she who knows the way. The elder woman that he created for the sand dweller tribes, garbed in protective desert fashion was envisioned as a cartographer, one who knows where every oasis, where every stony outcropping and cave, and where every village lie within tens of miles.

Creativity Section

Art and Design

The halls of the forum's museum stayed open once more as the wing dedicated to paintings and murals is a buzz with activity. For yet another piece has been put on display within the gallery for Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing! With shaggy cut bob of crimson hair, and eyes a glow in amaranth, she stands before. Clad in garments of charcoal best said to be a promise of rapture. But with leathen wings outstretched and the bones of the hapless at her feet, a warning and threat of impending doom. It has been five years since Remi-chan last put Azaroth to virtual canvas. And fittingly enough, this twelve-hour work was recorded and can have its composition played back with the two-hundredth speed draw.

Literature

Deceit, damnation and duplicity, these are thre words that can be used to describe the latest subject within tha pages of Remi-chan's Writing Snippets~. The so-named Tyrant of Babylon uses means malevolent to alter all of humanity so it can succumb to evil and become her feed. But what was she before this spiral into carnage, depravity and loathing?

Well, that's it for this week.

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