Introducing Script Archive Icons, the newest feature in the Scripts Archive.

These icons are a symbol, displayed on the category view, of what the main elements of the Script article are. 

Icon Key(as they appear)

the script article contains access to a support topic
the script article contains screenshots
RGSS Script
Demo
Manual

Each icon is linked to an anchor. That is, you can click on an icon and it will take you to that element in the Script article. For example, if you click the Screenshots icon, you will be taken into the article where the screenshots are. 

More Script Archive features to come! Recommendations can be posted on the forums or in comments below.

Forum-Restructure

I have been thinking about a more effective forum structure that will solve a couple of issues on the forum.

Firstly there is a very large decrease in introduction topics. At my last count a few weeks ago I think it was at only 5 for the year so far(its a little higher now) and its almost the fourth month of the year. Secondly is project topics. People aren't making project topics so much anymore and lastly is scripts. Looking at that as a whole, you could say RPG Maker topics in general are struggling. The case may be a decreasing interest in RPG Maker but we are still primarily an RPG Maker community so it's our task to promote it somewhat.

The post by Hai obviously sparked some serious concerns. And it would seem that Emily and I are back to the drawing board once more.

Looking at our Game Making section, I suppose it is rather intimidating looking at it from a new users perspective. Whether familiar with RPG Maker or not. So here's my new philosophy on the forums of the forum - strip it down to its bare elements.

Introducing the new Homepage layout style.

What you're reading now is part of the new blog-styled home page. Instead of the short RMXP Unlimited introduction and feed at the bottom of the page, the main content is now replaced with latest news articles which will be written by the Administrators. The infomation about the Game Engines will be moved to the respective pages which are accessable via the main menu bar. 

There are expected changes in the new style as it developes, but the main part is what you see here. Each news article can be accessed and commented on by anyone, simply click the title of th news article.

We have refined the RGSS sections for RPG Maker XP and RPG Maker VX to the following categories:

• Custom Menu Scripts

Any scripts that mess with the menu system

• Custom Component Scripts

Any scripts that add unique systems to the game

• Custom System Scripts

Any scripts that change the core system of the game, like weather scripts

• Custom Battle Systems

self explanatory

• Actor Enhancement

Anything that changes the actor growth and abilities

• Misc

Any scripts that do not fall under the above categories

These changes were made because there were a lot of categories that were unused and likely to remain unused for a long time, and to make it easier to users to browse the scripts.

Special thanks to Leon for coming up with the category structure.

The Email Cloaking issue has been fixed. Email Cloaking is where an email address is in the content of a page, it becomes a link with "mailto:" before the email address. This was an issue particularly with scripts because a lot of them contain "0...@" or something similar that a script identifies as an email address. When scripts were pasted to RPG Maker it replaced the code, causing a syntax error.

Since this issue has been fixed, a lot of the Script Articles on the site will be reformatted making them easier to use.