DerVVulfman announced that he finished working upon the RPGMaker VX, and with that the last of the Engine specific resources in his RPGMaker Webs Archiving Endeavor.

Someone spiffy came into the forum and remembers the earliest days when the RPGMaker line made its way into the community. Going by yukinon, our newest member harkens back when Don Miguesl translated RPGMaker 2000 and released it to western audiences. Having taken a hiatus for over a decade, yukinon is now a software engineer and RPGMaker MZ is their current gam engine of choice.

Sofrware is What's on the mind of community members this week. Forced into Linux from overly massive windows updates, KDC discovers that Microsoft found it was an issue with the updates themselves and that Microsoft is working upon the repairs. He has other things to also take care of, but is waiting upon Microsoft in this instance. Meanwhile, Remi-chan challenged herself to enter into a game jam contest to prove to herself she could, and then ended the week relaxing to some Palworld with friends.

Breaking away from the norm and thinking outside of the box was soemething that Was up with RMers like kyonides. His latest endeavor is to allow rendered assets on one map be copy-pasted into other maps. His current work has the data saved in outside files, but he is working to streamline the system and have the content stored within savegame files. After that, Remi-chan gave screenshots and video presentations of her game-jam entry, one that was intended to be a quickly made entry but became a more polished work. She also presented more spritework by Xiie, but is very confused as to the silence of her character portrait artist that she hasn't heard from in a long time.

Several pics from Remi-chan's new game made their way into theMaps and screenshots thread, whether they be outdoor shots of a town with a rat infestation, an underground prison carved from stone, or a beachside resort with a slight eating disorder stemming from a scantily clad demoness with an eating disorder.

It seems that someone else has discovered Rave Heart+ and happily rendered piece after piece of fan art for Stramage to show off. Presenting chibi-styled works by Applemango, we get to see characters like Chad and Zephyr from Gaia's Melody together, and Klein and Veronica in other works. But Applemango is not alone as we get a glimpse of Zazir done in the Grisaille style by sheshhdawg, it yet another commission by BerryB.

What does a snooty angel masquerading as a mortal and a down-on-the-luck magic user who just got fired from her last job have in common? The answer is Remi-chan and her recent entry into a Pride-Month Game Jam competiion entitled YEN: Yearning the Eternal Night. Taken from the back-story of Fantasia and the mind of Remi-chan, Yen is a tale of two whom met by accident, one on a mission to find what corrupts a local town while the other whose prays for a better life. Vibrant shades of pink, exotic art, rodents run amok, and more are in this game jam entry.

KDC announced that, while still on Hiatus, work upon Memorie is able to resume after having transferred his system to Linux. He had issues with the Linux edition of Steam due to the his drive formatted in NTFS, and other issues also connected to Linux use on his system. What forced his hand to transfer to Linux was the result of a faulty series of updates by Microsoft, and he has plans to restore his PC back to Windows once the faulty updates have been repaired.

Harken back to the late 80s before the Playstation era and games like Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy were fresh. It is this innocents in gameplay where Knight of Light by Rose Guardian lives. Her tale revolves around a young man who became a knight and blessed with the legendary Spear of Destiny. However, the tale wans that the God of Logic and Order would return to claim the spear and use it against mortalkind that he felt wronged him.

Early this week, Rose Guardian had an issue where RPG Maker MZ won't deploy games when the exclude unused files feature is checked. DerVVulfman, who admits to not having the engine, said he looked into it and found that others had the same issue and that it came down to the feature built into both RPGMaker MV and MZ didn't account for resources used by all plugins and suggested a tool he discovered. While Rose Guardian feels like its not related to plugins, she is planning to save up and acquire the tool.

With the latest edition of HiddenChest RGSS Player Executable, kyonides was able to allow accurate retrieval of the duration of midi files despite it being flexible and unlike audio formats. And kyonides is working to ensure game integrity by adding SHA-256 hash testing capabilities. Both available for both Linux and WIndows systems.

DerVVulfman's work on obtaining RM WEBS MAKER SPECIFIC RESOURCES continued, going through and acquiring the main page for every RPGMaker MV resource thread. And with that, he finished archiving the forum designated for all engine specific content.

With ribbon-trimmed nodachis in each hand, she awaits. With magics swirling around her older than the universe itself, she readies. For she is the Lady Akra Olna, and with hair obsidian and alabaster, her portrait is now on display within the Gallery dedicated to Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing!

Having trekked for so long, our celestial artist had to stop for a time to get some new pumps. But now that she's feeling fashionable, Starmage's Arts and Training Journey can now continue. This week, she's visited a friend who had commissioned fan art for her, and produced a rendering of Crampax from a fangame by BerryB in all his wintery glory. And with a striking defensive posture, the raven haired sorceress with a amethyst tipped magus staff is Starmage's tribute to Eirf's game Shadow's of the Earth!

Is there anything more adorable than children at play? To one individual within the Art deck of Demos "Rise Evil" Kerrigan, that might be a matter of opinion. For his recent creation has a cute light-haired girl of roughly eight ready to spring her feline side upon her unsuspecting, winged, adopted older-sister. A cat is ready to pounce upon a bird within this world that Rise Evil is returning in vivid colors.

As work progresses upon her game, coming ever so close to its final conflict, new pages have been sewn into the leather-bound tome of Remi-chan's Writing Snippets~. For viewing in the forum's museum, the latest chapter allows one to glance into the mind of the Regent of Zen Aneia and her resolution to face the Herald of Calamity.

Along with her submission into a pride month themed game jam, new clips have been prepared within Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre. Simple teasers, but three in total featuring the game's protagonists, the numerous characters that are encountered in the game's sprawling world, and to show how expansive her game's universe extends.

Throughout the week, DerVVulfman continued the efforts at RPGMaker Webs Archiving, and finished acquiring the graphic resources dedicated to the RPGMaker VX and VXAce engine. However, he remarked that many resources were lost due to the image hosting sites that were used.

Giving the members ample time to prepare, MetalRenard announced the upcoming 2026 Game Jam that begins at the end of July. A Ten day affair, members are free to make a simple game in under four days for fun that centers around fairies or nature, with a few limitations of their choice.

A long time member of the RPG Game making community has now appeared. After the announcement Save-Point was having a game jam, Coyotecraft decided to introduce himself within the forum, though he has been a member of the Discord for some time.

The video game industry was certainly front and center in this week's News of the Cyber World as a major lobbyist for gaming industry declared private minecraft servers and the like piracy, all while "Stop Killing Games" seeks game preservation. Though it worked well for Sony in recent history, they are scaling back games for the PC while also annoucing the discontinuation of physical media for their playstation games. Other hot topics such as Kadokawa, the makers of Elden Ring and the RPGMaker engine line, being in an interior civil war and Meta's request to have charges violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act dropped also hit the news.

If you inquire What's up among our RMers, kyonides is encountering headaches with midi files, the various files offering different outputs when trying to establsh a means to calculate a melody's duration.

Starmage has been gushing as she has received fan-art after fan-art forRave Heart+ almost daily thanks to her friend, Berry-B. Full body portraits of Ellemine, Chibi artwork of the cast, and even fan-service bikini bathingsuit watergun murals have been presented. And who knows what will show up next?

KDC has put Memorie on a temporary hiatus once more. Due to the myriad Windows 11 updates, he is quickly running out of hard drive space and has plans to move over to Linux. However, it will also take time to set things up after migration.

It was five years when MetalRenard began his journey into Learning GDScript, posting examples of his wok. But now, he is happy to state that he is now a full-time web developer thanks to his study.

beginning this month, DerVVulfman began working on archiving the MAKER SPECIFIC RESOURCES from RPGMakerWeb.com. He has progressed far this week, having archived graphic resources specific to most enterbrain engines, only having those for RPGMaker MV left to attack.