June 2025 Recap (Patreon)

Hi all, below you can see all of the updates Casper Gaming released in June 2025, in case you missed any of them. You can also get notifications when an update occurs in the Casper Gaming Discord or by following me on various social media.

New Releases

[CGMZ] Jukebox - Allow the player to collect musical tracks, either manually or automatically by hearing them in your game. Then, allow them to play the music back in a jukebox scene. You can also optionally allow the player to permanently change the map autoplay music via the jukebox. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-jukebox-131965628

[CGMZ] Skip Title - Skips the title screen. You can either load into a new game or optionally load into the most recent save file if one exists. Useful if you want complete control over your title screen via eventing and plugins that affect the map. Pre-title scenes such as Press Start or Splash Screen still work as normal. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-skip-title-132932652

[BGM] Brass Boulevard - A BGM that will remind your player of heavy machinery, this would fit just about anywhere industrial in your game whether it is a dungeon or a town. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bgm-brass-130637323

Alpha Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Conditional Choices - This plugin was updated to add actor conditions, so you can now have choices that depend on an actor being in the party or being a specific level (or higher). Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/84645787

[CGMZ] Enemy Upgrade - This plugin can now handle a random chance to replace the enemy with a special version of the enemy. This can be something like a rare or shiny variant of the enemy. Since it is an entirely separate enemy entry in the database, you can make it have different stats, abilities, and more. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-enemy-89292213

[CGMZ] Inn Shop - The Inn Shop scene now displays the gold window, so the player knows how much money they have. You can override the title text in the plugin command to call the scene, so your inns can have different title text in each inn. The inn windows can be customized with a new integration with [CGMZ] Window Settings. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-inn-shop-129152773

[CGMZ] Dungeon Tools - The hookshot received a bit of an overhaul with this update. The followers now gather at the hookshot speed instead of the normal walk speed to avoid how it used to look like they were walking on air. The hookshot is now drawn behind the player when facing any direction besides down, so it no longer clips slightly with the player graphic. A bug with really high speeds and the hookshot going past its connection point was fixed. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/55843413

[CGMZ] Item Categories - This plugin was updated to give you more control over your item categories. You can now create categories that only appear after certain conditions are met, or make them only become active one certain conditions are met. This uses custom JS, so the possibilities are endless. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-item-125415988

[CGMZ] Quest System - You can now automatically exit out of the scene after accepting a quest from a quest board, which could come in handy for tutorials or cutscenes involving the quest board. This plugin also now integrates easily with [CGMZ] Window Backgrounds and [CGMZ] Window Settings for each window. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52804166

[CGMZ] Mailbox - You can now choose if you want to allow the player to delete letters. Mail can now be unsent, which will restore its attachments as if it were never sent or collected yet which can come in handy for repeatable mail. Windows now integrate with both [CGMZ] Window Backgrounds and [CGMZ] Window Settings. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/82726198

[CGMZ] Gathering - This plugin received a major update which added the Gather Journal. Now you can allow your player to view additional information about gathering nodes in your game, for example to provide some more about the Copper nodes they are mining or allow them to see how many Berries they have harvested throughout the game. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59344299

[CGMZ] Hooks - Hooks for the jukebox were added, so you can run custom JS when a track is discovered or played. Hooks for gathering were also added so you can run custom JS when a node is harvested. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/79987888

[CGMZ] Recruitment Board - You can now set a max party size to prevent the player from recruiting too many actors. Many integrations were added, including [CGMZ] Controls Window, [CGMZ] Window Settings, and [CGMZ] Window Backgrounds. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-recruitment-111830306

[CGMZ] Item Popup - You can now have a custom space in your item popup, to position elements better. The window now also shows a brief opening animation where the window starts small and gets bigger over a few frames. The Display and Queue control plugin commands were converted to switches which are easier to use and more familiar to most RPG Makers. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-item-popup-114134301

Beta Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Event Movement - The movement code was overhauled with this update. The plugin can now take into account speed differences and ensure even slow events move the amount of spaces they should if the player moves many tiles quickly. More speed options were added as a result, and the plugin now takes into account jumping as movement for the player. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/48715865

[CGMZ] Battle Weather - This plugin was updated to allow your skills and items to automatically change the weather as part of their effect. When such a skill is used, it will perform its effects and then set the weather, for example if you want your Blizzard skill to make it snow which can then make other ice spells do more damage. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/69046905

[CGMZ] Reputations - With the update this month, the plugin should now be more polished. There is now text you can display when there are no reputations available to display in the scene, and you can set the visible categories per line as well as how many lines are visible at once. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/48997915

[CGMZ] Colosseum - Rewards can now have a chance to be awarded instead of always being awarded, and you can now make certain fights require the player's party to be at or above a certain level. You can also now display the battle back of the troop in the display window. More miscellaneous improvements were made as well in this massive update. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52307081

Free Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Core - The monthly Core update added battle wait functions, scrolling window improvements, and fixed a bug with drawing new lines via text code. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/core/

[CGMZ] Sound IDs - This plugin was updated to add variance for volume, pitch, and pan. This can help make sure your sound effects do not sound the exact same every time, which could get annoying for a player. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/soundids/

[CGMZ] Changelog - This plugin was changed to use an integration with [CGMZ] Window Settings for its window customization for things such as windowskin, tone, style, etc. This allows me to add more window customizations without needing to update all of my plugins that have windows in them for the new feature. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/changelog/

[CGMZ] Credits - This plugin was changed to use an integration with [CGMZ] Window Settings for its window customization for things such as windowskin, tone, style, etc. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/credits/

[CGMZ] Title Command Window - This update added show and enable js parameters, so you can make certain options on your title screen conditional based on something (such as global data). This update also added the integration with [CGMZ] Window Settings for its window customization for things such as windowskin, tone, style, etc. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/titlecommandwindow/

[CGMZ] Game End Window - This update added show and enable js parameters, so you can make certain options only appear if specific conditions are met. Since it is JS, the possibilities are endless. This update also added the integration with [CGMZ] Window Settings for its window customization for things such as windowskin, tone, style, etc. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/gameendwindow/

Other

Wiki - The Casper Gaming Wiki has had quite a bit of work done on it. There is now a background image for dark mode, and all [CGMZ] plugin pages should have a gallery (if visual) of images you can look through: https://caspergaming.miraheze.org/wiki/CGMZ_Plugins

Of course, the wiki is always going to be a project that can benefit from improvement. If you would like to contribute, the wiki allows most pages to be edited by anyone.

Discord - Discord has started to put some features behind server boosts, and Casper Gaming could use a few more server boosts to unlock these features. An example of what we can unlock is the Server Tag [CGMZ] you can now rock next to your Discord name in all servers, which was added in June. However, I don't like asking for boosts for nothing in return so I have decided to offer rewards if you boost the Casper Gaming Discord Server. These are:

Server Booster rank and access to Server Boosters channel in Discord (you get this automatically when boosting the server)

Your name in the Discord Server Boosters section on my Thanks page

Your own character in the RMMZ Academy basement

Gifted access to the $1 tier on patreon (allows voting in all polls, early access to some BGMs, friend rank in Discord, name in Patreon Friends part of Thanks page). Note that if you already subscribe to a higher tier of the patreon you will not be eligible for this due to how patreon gifting works. Since this is a manual process for me, you must keep claiming this every month that you want it.

In case you did not know, if you are a Discord Nitro subscriber you have access to 2 free server boosts. If you are not already in the discord, you can join at the following link: https://discord.gg/Gbx7JXP

Polls - Speaking of voting in polls, the poll for both July's small plugin and the next BGM ends tomorrow! Make sure you vote if you want to have a say in what gets made in July!

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