Hi all! Below you can see all of the updates Casper Gaming released in July 2026, 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. You can also join the new forum to see new posts for plugins there: https://forum.rmplanet.com/

New Releases

[CGMZ] Common Event Menu - Create any custom menu scene you want in your game with an information and selection window, which will run a common event of your choosing when the player selects an option in this scene. Now you can make totally custom menus without needing to know any JS yourself! You can create as many custom scenes as needed, there are no limits. Link: https://www.patreon.com/CasperGamingRPGM/posts/cgmz-common-menu-164039291

[CGMZ] Window Cursor - Add a window cursor, which can be a static image or spritesheet animation, to your selection windows. All cursors can have various rotations, hue changes, floating effects, and more. Link: https://www.patreon.com/CasperGamingRPGM/posts/cgmz-window-165226534

[CGMZ] Scrolling Window - This plugin allows you to create a custom scene with a scrolling window to show a lot of text, images, or any other element in a window that can scroll up/down. You can create as many custom scrolling window scenes as needed, there are no limits. Link: https://www.patreon.com/CasperGamingRPGM/posts/cgmz-scrolling-163388536

[Map Pack] Ruined Village Pack 1 - A pack of the 5 Village Pack 1 maps, but in a ruinous state. These maps have encountered disaster or been abandoned and are now villages in ruin. They are the same base map as the Village maps, so you can show them in a ruined state after a plot point in your game if needed. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/map-pack-ruined-165121756

[Icons] The Casper Gaming IconSet was updated this month with around 100 icons for common technology items such as phones, computers, physical media discs (don't tell Sony), lava lamps, and much more. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/casper-gaming-140870082

[BGM] To Breathe - This is a holy track meant for a monastery, church, or similar area of your game. This time, it does not have any sinister connotations. It is meant for a place that really is tranquil and a boon to the community it serves. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bgm-to-breathe-162848166

Alpha Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Currency System - This plugin now supports item, weapon, armor, or variable tracking for custom currencies. You can use an item as currency, and the currency amount will track the item count. If you spend the currency, the player will lose those items from their inventory. If you use the items, the player will lose that much currency. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62959824

[CGMZ] Hardcore - This plugin now allows you to manually fail a hardcore game via plugin command, instead of requiring a game over. This also leads to a new state for save files: failed hardcore. This can keep a lost hardcore save file around, which will not be able to be loaded but can remain as a memento of the playthrough. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-hardcore-149463658

[CGMZ] Quest System - This month added more control over the Quest Tracker window, as it will now fade out when overlapping the player, has more text alignment options, and can even show different names for quests in the window since it is likely to have less space available. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52804166

[CGMZ] Gathering - An integration with [CGMZ] Floating Text was added for failure messages (such as missing a harvest tool or the crop is still growing, etc). This allows you to use less intrusive error messages than a full game window message. You can also require that harvest tools need to be equipped rather than just in the inventory. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59344299

[CGMZ] Preloader - This plugin now supports unloading preloaded images and audio, which can occur manually using a plugin command for now. This update was the infrastructure to do so and will allow for smart preloading in the future where things can be preloaded shortly before needed and unloaded automatically. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-preloader-135435657

[CGMZ] Anti Lag - This plugin added a feature to ignore SE and ME attempts to play when the volume would be at 0, which can help reduce lag especially in cases where you use spatial audio that attempts to play sound effects which are far away at 0 volume. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-anti-lag-143016073

[CGMZ] Button Events - You can now easily disable any button events you had with an all-in-one plugin command to disable everything. A temporary pause in button event processing is also now possible via an easy switch parameter. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-button-144629887

[CGMZ] Floating Text - Many new customization options were added to the floating text this plugin creates, including x/y offsets, blend modes, opacity control, and hue rotations. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-floating-157462562

[CGMZ] Window Settings - This plugin can now change the translucent opacity value, which is used for disabled elements in your windows. It also received a compatibility change to make window padding changes easier to work with and less likely to cause issues. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-window-129957107

[CGMZ] Options - You can now deep link to a specific option, in case you mention it in a tutorial and want to open up the options scene with that option already selected for the player. A bug where Mac would continue to loop between fullscreen and windowed mode was also fixed. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-options-121613771

Beta Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] New Game Plus - This plugin was updated for some of the newer [CGMZ] plugins that can have data reset, including reset upon New Game Plus start for [CGMZ] Lore, [CGMZ] Manual, and [CGMZ] Cheat Codes. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-new-game-98801926

[CGMZ] Enemy Upgrade - An integration with [CGMZ] Difficulty now allows you to use entirely different enemies when encountered on different difficulties. When designing your maps, you set up encounters as normal. Depending on the difficulty the player has selected, the enemy in the troop may be replaced with a harder (or easier) version based on plugin params. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-enemy-89292213

Free Updates

[CGMZ] Core - The monthly core update added a better rumble json parsing utility function and also a getter function for window padding before window create. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/core/

[CGMZ] Controls Window - This plugin was released for everyone for free this month! It allows you to show the controls of how to operate any menu scene in your game, and automatically adapts to showing the correct buttons for xbox, playstation, keyboard, or any other common control style. Buttons can flash to add a little animation to the window as well. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-controls-window

[CGMZ] Plugin Commands - This plugin now has plugin commands to get dates from your player's pc clock. If you want to know what day of the month it is, or what day of the week it is for some eventing purposes, now you can do that with no JS required. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-plugin-commands

[CGMZ] Save File - This plugin added support for the new [CGMZ] Hardcore failed hardcore state a save file can be in. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-save-file

[CGMZ] Idle - This plugin can now automatically clear idle status when the message window appears on screen, making it much less of a concern for your player going idle during important cutscenes where there may be a lot of dialogue. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-idle

[CGMZ] Game Info - The game info text now supports idle and bold, and it should also now match the main game font instead of using a fallback font on first try. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-game-info

[CGMZ] Item Conditions - This plugin now supports class conditions, allowing you to make items that are only usable by certain classes. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-item-conditions

[CGMZ] Title System - The user select title screen is now more customizable with control over column count and window width. A bug was fixed that could cause a crash if the player had no global data or the title screen the user had selected was deleted via a game update. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-title-system

[CGMZ] Title Command Window - This plugin was updated to add Subcategories to your title command window! You could use this to make an option to Start New Game that then asks what mode they want, such as Survival, Story, or Creative. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-title-command-window

[CGMZ] Vehicle Encounters - This plugin was updated to also pull encounter lists from the map data. You can now set up your vehicle encounters as normal using the Map Properties, setting the vehicle encounters to a specific region id. The vehicle region id does NOT need to be painted over tiles the vehicles can traverse for those encounters to be included in encounter lists while in vehicles. You can use the additional 2 region id slots to set up region requirements still. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-vehicle-encounters

Other

Forum - Are you still looking for a forum to discuss RPG Maker things with the broader community? RM Planet is plenty active with more users joining every day. As this forum also has a place for paid plugins, I am slowly posting my entire library there as well, which will allow you to provide feedback even for beta/alpha plugins on the forums. I hope to see you on the forums: https://forum.rmplanet.com/

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).

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!