December 2025 Recap (Patreon)

Hi all, Happy New Year! Below you can see all of the updates Casper Gaming released in December 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] Clipboard - Read from and write to the player's clipboard. You can do things like copy a URL for the player so they can easily paste it into their web browser, or use it for creative game mechanics such as providing a clue that they need to paste elsewhere. I am sure you will come up with many creative uses for this plugin. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-clipboard-146751519

[CGMZ] Party Manager - Manage the party with this plugin. You can do things like lock actors in place so they can't be moved with the Formation command, locking them to battle slots only, change the amount of battle members there are in the party and in battle, and make alternate parties for easily splitting your party up. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-party-146112064

[CGMZ] Clickable Pictures - Create custom picture-based UI with drag and drop directly in the editor. This plugin allows you to add a lot of interactivity to your pictures shown through the Show Picture event command, and also works with gamepad and keyboard controls too. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-clickable-145731680

Windowskin Pack - A pack of windowskins which you can use for your game. It includes some more retro themed ones as well as some modern ones. Use plugins such as [CGMZ] Window Settings to use more than 1 windowskin in your game. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/casper-gaming-146186954

World Map Pack - A set of 5 world maps you can use in your game. It includes one traditional world map, one modern world map with a dystopia future version as well, one circular world map with 4 elements for a short game, and one tropical archipelago world map. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/map-pack-world-1-145401718

[BGM] Merch - A looping BGM meant to make your player want to spend their money, this theme will be perfect for a market area, shop interior, or anywhere else that trade regularly occurs in your game. Of course you can also use it anywhere else you think it fits. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bgm-merch-145027793

Alpha Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Gamepad Detected - This plugin now shows when the gamepad disconnects as well as when it connects. Your player might appreciate this feedback if their controller is having trouble staying connected, or if they want to be sure the game registered that they unplugged their controller. Since it can do both connect and disconnect, I added options to hide those in case you only want it to show connections or only show disconnections. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-gamepad-140793104

[CGMZ] Hooks - A hook was added for both gamepad connect and gamepad disconnect. This should go along well with the Gamepad Detected plugin to allow you to create any custom behavior you want when these actions occur. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/79987888

[CGMZ] Daily Rewards - This plugin was updated to add common events as daily rewards. It also had a lot of its integrations improved. The toast window now uses the preset system and order is no longer important, and integrations were added for [CGMZ] Window Backgrounds and [CGMZ] Window Settings to allow further customization of your daily reward window. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/60561458

[CGMZ] Scan - This plugin was updated to add up to 3 stat lines to each scan result. Each stat line supports all stats, but you can separate them out if desired by using text codes. This allows you to show enemy attack, defense, and all other stats in the scan results. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-scan-106105822

[CGMZ] Footsteps - You can now have visual footsteps via this plugin! Visual footsteps disappear either by time or by player step, allowing you to mimic more modern or more retro games depending on what kind of mechanic you are going for. Footsteps also fade out smoothly, and can differ by region id so you can make snow footsteps differ from sand footsteps, for example. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-footsteps-108212317

[CGMZ] Item Categories - Your item categories can now differ between the item and shop scene, in case you want the normal categories in the shop but more granular control in the item scene. Item categories can also affect battle, letting you show different categories via the Item command in battle. You could use this to make an actor that can use a specific category of item that other actors cannot, such as a potion master that is the only part member who can use potion items. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-item-125415988

[CGMZ] Currency System - You can finally exchange the default currency with custom currencies in the exchange scene! This update added a more consistent approach to how the default currency is handled alongside custom currencies, so integrations with it should be much easier in the future. The currency bag scene can also now show New! marker text for newly discovered currencies the player has not yet viewed. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62959824

[CGMZ] Inn Shop - The inn shop can now charge custom currencies via [CGMZ] Currency System, and you can have multiple custom currency rooms in the same inn shop scene. This means you may use the default gold for most rooms but make the most premium room cost the Gem currency, for example. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-inn-shop-129152773

Beta Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Event Movement - You can now use the new event movement types in normal events, without needing to use the movement by player steps system of movement. Some new movement types were also added, such as hugging left/right walls and a chase movement type to chase the player if they get within a given range. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/48715865

[CGMZ] New Game Plus - You can now reset more [CGMZ] plugins' data when your player starts a new game. This update added the option to reset Reputation, Jukebox, and Message Log data when a new game plus starts. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-new-game-98801926

[CGMZ] Controls Window - You can now show flashing text in the controls window. You can use this to show two sets of icons, one in a pressed and one in an unpressed state to add a bit of animation to the controls window. You could also flash different sets of controls if your scene is complex. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-controls-92963192

Free Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Core - The monthly Core update added a lot of utility function for things like circle objects, color conversion, input waits, and more. It also fixed a bug with multiple window listeners being created as well as the shift key potentially causing inputs to be incorrectly applied. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/core/

[CGMZ] Save File - This plugin now comes with plugin command to manually save the game without needing to enter the save menu. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-save-file

[CGMZ] Plugin Commands - A new plugin command was added, a wait command that will wait for player input. This used to be in older RPG Makers such as 2k3, and now you can wait for the player to press an input in MZ as well. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-plugin-commands

[CGMZ] Encyclopedia - This plugin now skips the category window if there is only one category that needs to be shown. This should help you out if you only want to use this as a bestiary, for example. You can also call the scene with different categories showing, so you could separate the bestiary from the rest of the categories in a different scene. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-encyclopedia

[CGMZ] Professions - You can now customize the string that shows in the list window for each profession, allowing you total control over how the list window looks. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-professions

[CGMZ] Menu Command Window - Now that [CGMZ] Common Events Everywhere allows you to run common events in the menu, I added an option here when running a common event menu command to not exit the menu. In some cases you may still want to exit the menu when a common event is chosen, so it is a simple true/false option. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-menu-command-window

[CGMZ] Fast Travel - This plugin received a re-write to move most of its data out of save data and into temporary data, allowing you to change most things in the plugin manager and see your changes immediately in saved games. It also improved the [CGMZ] Toast Manager integration, as it now uses the preset id system. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-fast-travel

[CGMZ] Screenshots - This plugin can now automatically copy the screenshot to the player's clipboard if using [CGMZ] Clipboard. This allows your player to easily paste the screenshot they took anywhere, such as on Discord or any other social media. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-screenshots

[CGMZ] Exit To Desktop - A plugin command was added to exit the game, allowing you to event an exit game situation. Note that exiting the game does not work in browser deploys. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-exit-to-desktop

Other

Patreon Redesign - This month I switched to the updated Patreon layout. Things should hopefully be easier for you to find on this website. I also added a Recap collection in case you want to go back and read past monthly recaps.

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. 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

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