(February 1 to February 7, 2016)
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
Occasions
It was back in 2012 when Shadow-Dragon registered with Save-Point. However, it was this past week where he made his first post, a request to have his account erased as he could not access his user control panel to do so. DerVVulfman did so after waiting a day to see if Shadow-Dragon changed his mind, after noting the irony how his first post to close his account had granted him full access to his control panel.
But this week, we had plenty of reasons to celebrate, mainly due to the number of birthdays that came and went. First this week were the birthdays of ilia12345, Kirito, rebuntu1313, Kozd, sangle1997, mikearthurs, hushu36, nickhu, Lightningsp1 and testuser333, which was later followed by the mass birthday collective belonging to deathangelmagnus, Huraa, repins, Jeicob-PC, RavenXCross, nsmcho, Rene Sparda and asaber. Later on, sideways, guigui28240, kobaia, hk007, MrRangerMIZ13, whiteday, Darkcrow, koshe974, Drakynoch and lonefoxlaughing shared some slices of birthday cake. Then the birthdays for GreenBanana, revolverwinds, MuGe9thD, vivaladave and Dungeonmind came about. And lastly, esn23, MaoCao, MOAL, jbuchanan and lobotaku shared their birthdays before this week's Gazette came out.
General Chat
If you wanted to take a break from work, you may want to ask Bounty Hunter Lani the question of "What are YouTubing?". For those that saw her previous video upload that worried anyone making reaction videos for Youtube, she posted another harsh-language video commentary about the Fine Bros now dropping their attempt to trademark the single word 'React'. To celebrate, Bounty Hunter Lani relaxed to some PokeMon tunes before finding what she said was a really helpful tutorial. Helpful it may be, but DerVVulfman was concerned as the video's narrarator continued to refer to windows applications as computers and not use the proper descriptive terms. But it turns out that the creator was known by Bounty Hunter Lani for joke videos as well as real technical posts.
Games Development
Development Discussion
For anyone curious as to What's up with their fellow RMers, there had been a lot of ruby scripting chatter as kyonides continued to work on and post his Kstates XP and Kuests XP quest script while DerVVulfman continued development of a raycasting first persepective engine. With some of the dialog, Ahzoh found out that kyonides was a conlanger himself, though kyonides found his own language appearing on a Russian website. And speaking of languages, Melana assisted kyonides with a German translation of his Kuests XP script, and Ahzoh, Melana and DerVVulfman relayed to kyonides that languages do not appear to be not much of an issue where scripts are concerned. And there was some talk beteen Ahzoh and kyonides about translating one of his demos to Ahzoh's own Vrkhazhian language. Meanwhile, Ahzoh noted about having fear-based reactions might be requested in DerVVulfman's Lycan ABS, to which DerVVulfman replied was something he had already been considering. With that, Ahzoh is now on the lookout for a musician for his game, Augmented Realities, and posted that he added more of the backstory to his new project thread.
This week, KasperKalamity returned to the Maps and Screenshots thread, posting a collage containing various maps from his game, Arbor's Eve. Both DerVVuflman and Steel Beast 6Beets were pleased, DerVVulfman appreciating the simpler coloring style while Steel Beast 6Beets was impressed by his mapping. However, kyonides may have found a typo in one of his screenshotes.
Upcoming Projects
Ahzoh just created the topic for his game, Augmented Realities, though the title itself is subject to change and the game had been in a standstill for a while. He describes a world in turmoil as an Empire which had formed after victoriously fighting back a demonic hoard that appears every century, only to become part of a larger regime that holds sway over the lands with fear and might. As the Empire of Mages continue to grow, bands of rebels begin to form and fight back. And you become conscripted to fight in a war while events unfold that may threaten the world.
Code Support
This week, Geminil requested for an Alternative Attack Algorithms by Xelias, seeing that it shows damage values upon battlers when it should show the traditional 'Miss' popup when the battler evades.
Meanwhile, RASHIDA12 hoped that someone would convert the XAIL MENU from RPG VX ACE to RPG XP. He posted links to the two-part script which he says are moderate in size, and noted his intent to use it in conjunction with scripts by Moghunter.
Material Development
Scripts Database
If you're on the look for a quest system for RPGMaker XP and the ones you've seen do not seem to fit, perhaps the Kuests XP system by kyonides is for you. Continued from the remnants of an abandoned project from 2012, this graphically designed quest system allows the use of sprites to give the designer increased flexibility in its appearance.
Howver, kyonides made the new KStates XP system that deals with status effects while on both the map and battle screens. And besides enhancing the normal options, it also allows the creation of weapons that perform vampiric drain attacks among other niceties. Steel Beast 6Beets had some issues, though one was a conflict with it and a script by DerVVulfman. Since then, there has been back and forth dialog as kyonides performed a few updates including a leech version.
Meanwhile, there are plenty of new add-ons for RPGMaker XP came in with the appearance of Soul's Plugins MV. Within this new thread, SoulPour777 has listed numerous plugins for RPGMaker XP ranging from battle and menu system add-ons through mapping and graphics additions.
For those who wish to use the Popularized ATB for RPGMaker MV by DoubleX, its creator had also written the new ATB Countdown plugin so the game developer can create states that affect the combatants' turns.
But as DoubleX created a new add-on, the work on his Popularized ATB Core system continued, taking care of an issue which prevented the status window from updating, handling of the actor input window, and some issues that were entry points for additional plugins such as his cooldown and speed add-ons.
And DoubleX has now posted that his Popularized ATB Event plugin is no longer in its beta testing stage, but a completely tested plugin.
Special Projects
ReGaL (RPG Game Lab)
The Talk Box
If you wanted to download The RosyPack, DerVVulfman noticed that the links are currently down. But RosyPosy says she's on the lookout for a more permanent solution.
Well, that's it for this week.
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