83 Custom Backer Designer Forms!

Exciting! A lot of work went into the designer docs for our Kickatarter's custom backers. These are the forms that will allow custom backers to build their items alongside the team. Each designer doc is tailored to each individual backer. We went through quite a few revisions to get the docs approved by the game team and player support. Happy to share that just a moments ago, I just sent each of the 83 current custom backers a private message through Kickstarter with a link to their personal designer doc (Do not share!).  This should also be very good news for Benevolent Founders who are eager to claim a custom item of their own. Once the current backers have their items, we will begin opening up additional slots to Benevolent tier players (they are all considered on the waiting list and will have the opportunity to upgrade to a custom backer tier if they wish.) In the continuation of open and transparent expectation setting, this first phase is going to be long. There is going to be a lot of "hurry up and wait" as the backers begin working with the team and artists begin to be assigned. I do look forward to seeing the amazing items that are created. 

Son of a Lich...

Scratch that... the story says this Lich is a brother. Of corpse he is!  Or maybe this is the monster the Lich brother summoned? Undead family trees are such a hassle... mostly because they move and grab your with their little-grabby-branches.

Our 244th build is dropping

"OK... we might be getting a little out of control with these particle FX. On second thought. Maybe we should add more?"

Newest update Version 0.244 includes

• In-game Character Customization
• FPS Selection In Options (Vsync must be off)
• Your name can now properly appears in quest text
• Apops now support Music/SFX
• Gem Bug fixed
• 0HP Bug Fixed
• Save Maya Quest no longer glitches on Frogzard count
• New account creation bug fixed
• Grotto progression fixed
• Merge shops no longer ask for ALLLLL your money the second time you use them. XD

Mmmmmm.... tastes like Poison Slash!

This is promising. 

Character Customization (Progress Peek)

Alpha had a great start... but there were two HUGE features from AQWorlds that it did not have yet. The bank and barber shop (character customization).  If you did not know the bank was already released, that happy to share with you that it is live in Infinity! Next up is character is the ability to customize your character in game. We needed a little extra time on it, but here is a look at the clean interface. It will let you change both your armor and character colors.... and hair styles. 

Founder Name Plates

Just like the past week of insane releases, there are a lot of things happening all at once... one of them is the Founder name plates (A Kickstarter Stretch goal that you unlocked.)  Thought you might like a sneak peek of the progress. Diogon's art looks amazing. With this feature it is possible for us to add more name-plate styles in the future. We are adding an option to toggle (and choose your nameplate) in game. The same will be true for titles. 

NEW! Kickstarter Update Post

I just finished posting a HUUUUGE new AQWorlds:Infinity Kickstarter Update Post for you. 

It was super effective...

I responded to a player by sending the link to their codes... and then after, they sent me another "Send codes, please!". O_o Were they testing to see if I was some sort of automated bot? Despair and I actually read and respond to all of the messages. Full transparency, I made a handy stream deck button that scrapes the Kickstarter page for your backer ID and then uses a javascript to call a powershell script which looks your id up in our database and then generates the link your reward page and pastes it back into the browser. (Suuuper proud of this.) But we still manually read all of the emails. 

New Client Live! Unity Version Upgraded

Also... did J# add 5 layers of parallax to town and the intro (Yes. Yes he did.)

If you walk through town or the intro and really look at the leaves and trees in the foreground and background... you will notice there are an insane number of layers being parallaxed. This gives it much more of a pro animation 3D feel. A new version just went live 30 minutes ago with a ton of bug fixes. Last week, we upgraded the Unity version to 6000.3.17f1 LTS. The LTS stands for "long term support". With this, we are also switching everything to Unity's new input system to re-implement controller support using Unity's new input system. It is going to make it reaaaaally nice to play on the Stream Deck. Also, it will make the possibility of publishing for consoles like the Switch at some point in the future after we finished releasing on the promised platforms. 

Remastered Zardmen

The zardmen that were in Infinity were animated before we developed our current techniques. So they were completely rebuilt using our newest methods... and got an art glow up and some additional personality at the same time. This week, we are fixing a lot of reported content bugs... especially with maps, monsters, and quests. (Darn...  I could have said "missions" to get the trifecta of M's.) We also are building new tools to automatically detect issues and missing things in maps and monsters which will help the game stay (more) bug free as we expand to more platforms. It is VERY wise for us to take a moment to do clean up now... we are just a few weeks into Alpha, and the content conversion is only going to accelerate from here.  

New Graveyard Rooms

Ever wonder what is inside that mausoleum? Or perhaps what was behind it? The graveyard is getting a little expansion.... increasing from 5 rooms to 10. But one of them is suuuuuper long and scrolly. This is a pretty small thing compared to all of the big things in the works, but fun to know nevertheless. I started writing the mega KS post. A LOT to cover. Will probably take me more than a day to finish and post it though. 

Thr'Hall's DoomAxe

If you got the drop from Thr'Hall's axe drop, you can upgrade it through a quest to this improved version... Nulgath added particle FX to it. Love the way the particles move independently of the character. 

Dark Wolves

Do you think he will bite me if I try to pet him...? o.o

Rare dark wolves have been made and are coming to infinity, so keep an eye out for these bad boys!

Forest Quest

Who doesn't love Zard hunting?!

Bring some friends and your best gear... these Zards aren't playing around!

Talk to the zard hunter (or /join forest) and battle to defeat the Zards, obtain the keys, and get new items!

Well... Caddeus does NOT like Zard hunting!! if you see him protesting... you know why!

The weapon drops are gorgeous... and I'm OBSESSED! (Thank you Aranx for these!)

Baby red dragon pet is now available as well!

The animation effects for the the DoomAxe have now been added as well!

Infinity Reporting System Upgrade

The infinity reporting system has gotten an upgrade. :D

We want to keep AQW Infinity a welcoming, kind place... and making sure our report system is easy to use is an efficient way to do that.

Keeping the community respectful and peaceful is our goal.

As always... if you see something, say something!

Player housing now available in Infinity!

Player housing is now available in infinity!

Head to /Centaur 21 to get your own cottage to decorate (or flying castle if you have access to that!).

There are a ton of new resize and overlap features for you to mess around with and create new fun things... and I can't wait to see all of your creativity!

Backers! Help us get you all of your reward codes :D

If you backed the AdventureQuest Worlds: Infinity Kickstarter project, and filled out the pledge manager (survey), then you should have received your codes via email. If you have not gotten your Steam Key and Reward Code to access to the game yet... please send us a message from your Kickstarter accounts saying "Send codes please!" Especially if you are a Custom, Benevolent, or Immortal tier backer. We need everyone's data moved over to our database to start the next phase. :D  Also, if you just filled out your pledge manager (survey) or are a late backer who just pledged, please give us 2 to 3 days to manually sync your data to the game's database and then email you the codes. (We had actually been doing the manual sync daily. But it takes a lot of time, effort, and takes time away from building features. So we plan on reducing it to once a week soon. So if you have not gotten your codes yet, hurry!)  I will post another reminder to all backers in next week's BIG Kickstarter Update Post.

Incoming! Alpha is off to a good start. We have been fixing issues for tons of backers and getting them in game, our communication through the campaign has been rock solid, the game has been getting more stable every day, and we had our first ever release... while simultaneously building new features and the original AQWorlds has not skipped a beat. Not too shabby! But we still have a lot coming. We have some big rewards (and the features to support them) coming up... Infinity Founder Class, SpellStones, Housing (Flying Castle), Statues, the Founder's Sanctuary, Sponsoring Items, creating the Custom Items, expanding to more devices (Mac, Android, Apple iOS) and ALL of the other highly anticipated things that are coming. We are taking this responsibility very seriously. And just so you know... you and the community has been doing an INCREDIBLE job of being supportive, encouraging, and giving great feedback. Thank you. What we have been doing is working. Let us keep it going... just like these runaway fireball projectiles.

Aria - Battleon's Petshop Owner

Aria's pet shop will be the must-go-to destination to get pets in game. Start pets... and was you unlock pet shops in game, they should also become accessible from her. Her current NPC looks like it was designed with my bad computer-chair posture :D So she is getting a glow up! Her eyes have more life, her pose (make that POSES) are more natural, and she is expressive. 

Here is the existing NPC for comparison. Hey! Why is that pet not loading? 

Class VFX? Woah!

I looked in the class design channel of our team's discord. Nulgath posted a bunch of stuff like this. O_O The future is looking bright... and lightningy-glowly-zappy-pow.

New Infinity Horc Quest- LIVE NOW!

 New Horc quest is now live on Infinity :D

Make sure to bring some friends with you... this Horc clan is ruthless!

To access the quest you will have to talk to Thok in battleon or go through /river to access the area...

Join now to farm and battle Thrax Ironside and the Horc clan!

There is a new "upgrade weapon" tab that allows you to evolve your weapon in exchange for the previous version.

You are able to get the Tyrant Blade of Infinity multiple times after the first one... but the drop rate is very low.

(The DoomAxe is obtainable but not animated, it will be animated next week!)

Battle on!

Tomorrow's Forcast: Horks!

Is it Hork or Horc?

Depending on which AQWorlds writer you ask, it is probably Horc. Which is a "hulky orc". But I fully intended it to be Hork. Saying it out loud always made me phase into a rendition of the Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show, "Hork, Hork, Hork!" Which also sorta indicates that they would be white meat. Gotta appreciate the small things in life. So even if it contradicts canonical lore, my Northern Battleon dialect will have me writing "Hork". Tomorrow, we will be releasing a new mini-adventure in the Hork Camp for you. I am in a voice chat where Sir Fainal, J#, Warlic, and Alina are preparing some reward drops for you. We want to add new things to do while we work on the MASSIVE list of high priority features to deliver your more rewards, release on more devices, and get started on the custom tier items.