Hi all! Below you can see all of the updates Casper Gaming released in August 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] Enemy HP Bars - Add HP bars for your enemies. The plugin is currently quite simple but a common feature which [CGMZ] was lacking. One neat feature of this HP Bar plugin is that you can require the player to use a Scan skill via [CGMZ] Scan first before enemy HP bars will display. Link: https://www.patreon.com/CasperGamingRPGM/posts/cgmz-enemy-hp-167796052

[CGMZ] Battle Objectives - Create objectives for the player to complete during a battle, and provide additional battle rewards or event things that happen based on if the player completes the objective or not. This could be something like "Win in less than 5 turns." Link: https://www.patreon.com/CasperGamingRPGM/posts/cgmz-battle-166620492

[BGM] Northern Migration - This is a track meant for a bird character's theme, or some other area in your game where the player is likely to encounter a lot of bird people. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bgm-northern-165695350

Alpha Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Footsteps - This plugin now supports animated visual footsteps, and includes some starter graphics to help get you set up and running. These animations are set up similar to all my other plugin animations and use a spritesheet animation format where you tell the plugin the width of one animation cell and the plugin handles the rest. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-footsteps-108212317

[CGMZ] Window Backgrounds - Each window can now have its own video playing for its windowskin background, allowing you to make truly animated window backgrounds. Videos are played on mute and on repeat, similar to how a gif works. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-window-118741571

[CGMZ] Battery - Eventing things that occur when the device battery changes is now trivial with the new Common Event parameters added this month. If you want to display a warning when the player battery falls below 15%, you can now easily do that via the common event that can run. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-battery-154417296

[CGMZ] Fourth Wall - The option to send the game screen to the player device printer was added (or save as a pdf). One example usage may be to show a clue on screen briefly before print, and remove the clue right after. This will make it seem as if printing the screen out shows a hidden clue. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-fourth-wall-155188684

[CGMZ] Clipboard - This plugin now allows you to write any image to the player clipboard. You can use this to copy an actor's image to the clipboard or any other image you want to send to the player. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-clipboard-146751519

[CGMZ] Actor Upgrade - Stats for levels after 99 are now much easier to set up. Previously, you had to type each stat value for each level you wanted post level 99. While this is still an option, it can now use a formula or a static increase per level. You can also control the actor max level by a variable now, and prevent exp gain at maximum level. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-actor-102425042

[CGMZ] Message System - You can now create your own custom text codes in this plugin. You define the text you type in to activate the text code, and then the js that processes the user-defined part of the text code. This allows you to create any text code you want. An option to change the default text outline width was also added. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/86064608

[CGMZ] Conditional Choices - In addition to hiding ineligible choices, this plugin can now also offer to show them in a disabled state. This might be a bit more user friendly if you want the player to be able to see invalid options while still not being able to select them. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/plugin-cgmz-on-153553730

[CGMZ] Cheat Codes - This plugin now tracks if the player has ever cheated in their playthrough, allowing you to event things based on that data. Along with this, you can determine which cheats count as cheating for this purpose. This might be useful if you have cheats that impact gameplay (cheating) and cheats that are simply for fun (not cheating). Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-cheat-codes-148331351

[CGMZ] Mailbox - A new scene was added this month: the single letter scene. This scene shows one letter without the selection window. This might be useful if you have an important letter you want to ensure the player reads. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/82726198

[CGMZ] Pixi Filters - Transitions for filters were added, so you can now smoothly change your filters when editing them instead of the instant change like before. This means you can do things like slowly fade your godray in, etc. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43753620

[CGMZ] Currency System - Your currency maximum can now be controlled by a variable. You might use this to cap the player at carrying 100 gems until they buy a larger gem pouch where they can then hold up to 1000 gems, for example. A bug with custom sell prices was fixed. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62959824

Beta Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Event Movement - Two new movement types were added: horizontal and vertical. These seem to have been present back in RM2k3 days and removed over time, now added back in for MZ via this plugin. They cause events to move up/down or left/right until running into something, then reversing. A switch to toggle region restrictions mid game was also added. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/48715865

[CGMZ] Light Effects - Your followers can light up to help your main character through a dark dungeon, for example. This might be useful if you have to escort someone through a dungeon and you need them in your party following you to see. Whatever your use case, you can now add light effects to player followers. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57452022

[CGMZ] Conditional Drops - You can now add any condition to your drops, provided you can code it in js via the new js condition parameter. An integration was also added with [CGMZ] Professions to add drops based on profession levels. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/70695498

[CGMZ] Self Variables - This plugin was updated to add a new type of variable: the map variable. Map variables are similar to self-variables, but any event on the same map can access the same copy of the variable. Events on different maps will have a different copy of that variable. The same was added for switches, so you can also have map switches too. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/74503192

[CGMZ] Event Names - Your event names can now have their blend mode changed from the normal blend mode. Default color and font options were added, so you do not need to type so many text codes anymore. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-event-names-94910357

Free Updates

[CGMZ] Core - The monthly core update added print listeners and rectangle json parsing utility functions which will be used in [CGMZ] plugins going forward. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/core/

[CGMZ] Professions - You can now cap the profession levels and raise the maximum level mid-game by using the new Variable Max Level parameter, which causes the max level to be determined by a value stored in a simple game variable. I also added support for all [CGMZ] Toast Manager toast types. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-professions

[CGMZ] Achievements - The big new feature here is that each achievement can now have its own display info parameter, in case you want each achievement to have a different layout from the rest. This update also reduced the complexity of the totals window, using a simply text parameter with text codes so you have complete control over the total window text. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-achievements

[CGMZ] Battle Result Events - This plugin was updated to make it more resilient for battle autosaves, allowing them to run even after re-loading an autosave directly after battle. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-battle-result-events

[CGMZ] Encyclopedia - The update for this plugin this month was to add deep linking, allowing you to start the scene with a specific category, subcategory, or even list item in a category already selected for the player. You can use this to ensure the player sees an important entry in your events. This plugin also had some bugfixes for cases where categories were not used or empty, such as calling the scene with a category you have disabled. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-encyclopedia

[CGMZ] Crafting - This plugin received a lot of customization updates this month, including changing how names of ingredients, etc. are drawn to give you more control over those strings. You can also easily hide recipes by a switch if you temporarily do not want them to display. Ingredient names can be obscured if they are not yet discovered in the [CGMZ] Encyclopedia. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-crafting

[CGMZ] Game End Window - Your game end window can now have subcategories for commands, in case you want to group specific commands together. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-game-end-window

[CGMZ] Infinite Balloons - Offsets for balloons were added. This includes a global offset for all balloons, as well as a per-balloon option in case you need to show a specific balloon in a different location. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-infinite-balloons

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 there soon: 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!