September 2024 Recap

Hi all, below you can see all of the updates Casper Gaming released in September 2024, in case you missed any of them. You can also get notifications when an update occurs in the Casper Gaming Discord.

New Releases

[CGMZ] Recruitment Board - Recruit actors from a shop-like scene, which is split into two parts: an actor list of available actors that shows limited info for each actor, and a single actor window with full actor info where the player can confirm recruiting that actor. You can also just use the single actor window separately, if needed. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-recruitment-111830306

[CGMZ] Dice - Allow your player to roll the dice in this plugin's dice scene. You can create any type of dice you want, such as 1d6, 1d20, or even dice with numbers that don't begin with a 1. You can offer rerolls to the player (limited quantity) and customize the scene with each scene call, while the dice stay re-usable. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-dice-112402426

[BGM] Wandering Soul's Lullaby - Spook your player and help build tension with this BGM playing in the background. Meant for a graveyard map, it will fit in well with any horror game or scene that should put the player on edge. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bgm-wandering-111382896

Alpha Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Custom Vehicles - This update added map links, so you can now make airships that can go above the clouds or submarines that can go below the water and your player will be brought to a separate map (such as an underwater map) when going to a linked map via this feature. This can give the illusion of things like a vehicle going below the sea. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/88512860

[CGMZ] Scene Backgrounds - This update added easier integration with other plugins, including the ability to swap custom scene backgrounds mid-scene. While this is meant for plugins to make use of, if you have any custom js parameter in any plugin you should be able to take advantage of this new feature. Documentation has been added for how to do so. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81531935

[CGMZ] Actor Upgrade - Have you ever wanted your actor's face to change based on the hp percentage remaining? Well, now you can! As your actor takes more damage, you can visually reflect this by having the plugin show a different face image by hp percentage. You can also now change the actor's icon property mid-game as well. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-actor-102425042

[CGMZ] Controls Window - This plugin was updated to add a way to move the controls window around mid-scene. This plugin is mostly meant for integration with other plugins, but if you have any custom js parameters in a plugin you can also take advantage of this. This may come in handy for complex scenes where the windows can change positions during the scene. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-controls-92963192

[CGMZ] Multiple Inventories - A view only scene of the inactive inventories was added. You can now show your player what they have in another inactive inventory, which could be useful for item storage or other mechanics. The player cannot use items from these inactive inventories. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/96331320

Beta Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Reputations - Categories now have their own parameter in this plugin, allowing for a lot more customization of your reputation categories. They can have images, support text codes in their name, and a lot more. A crash when not using categories was also fixed in this update. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/48997915

[CGMZ] Colosseum - You can now have separate rewards for the first time the player wins and subsequent times the player wins a fight! This was a very heavily requested feature. Along with this, there is also marker text for new fights the player has not yet attempted so the player will know which fights are new to them. Integrations were added for [CGMZ] Currency System, [CGMZ] Scene Backgrounds, and [CGMZ] Controls Window. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52307081

Free Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Core - The monthly update added much easier gamepad listening functions, and fixed some toast parsing issues that could occur if pre-processing of toast parameters did not occur. This should simplify toast integrations in other [CGMZ] plugins. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/core/

[CGMZ] Game End Window - This plugin was updated to have similar features to my other command window plugins, namely that you can have a separate icon with its own alignment, a command background image, and text codes are always supported now. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/gameendwindow/

[CGMZ] Title Command Window - This was another command window plugin that was updated to include an icon parameter, background images for the command, and always support text codes. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/titlecommandwindow/

[CGMZ] Achievements - This plugin received a major update this month which includes a plugin command to check achievement status, options to show points in the list window with a background image, options to show category earned/total amounts, options to change the positions of the achievement windows, and a few more miscellaneous updates. This should help you customize the achievements scene quite heavily. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/achievements/

Other

This month, RPG Maker updated from version 1.8.0 to 1.8.1. [CGMZ] Plugins should all work with this update without any need for maintenance. Casper Gaming's documentation has been updated to cover these changes: https://www.caspergaming.com/documentation/mz/

There is an ongoing poll for the next BGM, which is even open to free members of my patreon. You can vote now at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/poll-next-bgm-113106725

There is also an ongoing poll for the next standard sized plugin, which is open to the $1 tier and above patrons at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/poll-next-plugin-111887359

The poll for the next small plugin has ended. The small plugin will be [CGMZ] Item Popup, which will show a popup window when first obtaining a new item to give the player more information, similar to a lot of modern rpg games.

Thanks for being a part of the Casper Gaming community 😁 Happy RPG Making!