The Weekly Gazette 7-12-2026

[DerVVulfman]

(July 6 to July 12, 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

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.

Occasions

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.

General Chat

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.

Games Development

Development Discussion

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.

Complete Projects

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.

Upcoming Projects

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.

General Support

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.

Material Development

Tools

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.

Scripts Database

RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine

For anyone who wishes to go beyond the number of tiles within their map's tileset and draw upon those within another, kyonides worked upon KBuild XP. With it, you do not copy events from one to another like certain event spawner scripts, but are able to copy the tilework of a map to other areas. There were some issues with the initial demo, the first being a command exclusive to HiddenChest. But since corrected.

Resources Database

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.

2D Resources

No, the person in the khakis and desert garb is not Brendan Frasier, but one more sand dweller in the Sahara series of characters found with the other Various RMXP sprites by Ace_V. Though he is of lighter hair and blue eys, he wears the same desert garb as the otherss that Ace_V made this past month. And he includes a second render with protective eyewear for when sandstorms come into play.

Creativity Section

Art and Design

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.

Literature

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.

Filmography

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.

Well, that's it for this week.

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