Kickstarter Update Posts

Greetings! I have been making a ton of update posts on the AQWorlds: Infinity Kickstarter. Be sure to check them out if you have not already.... 

• Update #7 - Stretch Goal Unlocked! Throne of Darkness
• Update #6 - Infinity Story Time! Origins of AQWorlds
• Update #5 - Stretch Goals, Benevolent Founders, and Thank you
• Update #4 - Stretch Goals & Brain Storming the Custom Item Situation
• Update #3 - How to get your Kickstarter Rewards
• Update #2 - Backer only post
• Update #1 - New World Record!

WORLD RECORD! 1000,000,000% Funded on Kickstarter in 3 days.

There are no words to express our gratitude for the overwhelming love & support for AQWorlds Infinity on Kickstarter. 

There are plenty of words in this official Kickstarter Update Post (worth reading).

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The AQWorlds: Infinity Kickstarter is LIVE!

Become a part of history. Back the AQWorlds Kickstarter and become a Founder!

Play By Play

The Infinity Kickstarter is going live today at noon!

• 7:50am - Artix: "The smell of coffee surrounds me..."
• 8:00am - Changed all the posts to say "Kickstarter begins TODAY!" 
• 8:30am - OMG! We hit 10K "Notify Me"s on Kickstarter this morning. Congratulations everyone! This is the magic number where Kickstarter will heavily promote a project.
• 8:45am - HeroMart gave the green light that they are all set. They added two new T-shirts and some goodies which will be available as add-ons to the Kickstarter. 
• 8:50am - Going dark for a bit.... 
• 10:00am - Alina, Lae, J#, Despair, & Immortal Joe are online.
• 10:30am - Pre-flight Check! Only and hour and a half left until launch....
• 10:38am - We just hit 11K "Notify Me"'s on Kickstarter... what in the world!?
• 11:00am - ONE HOUR! O_O The AE team is fielding questions on social media. 
• 11:12am - Writing posts for the game sites.... 
• 11:30am - My browser is full of tabs with posts ready to go on every website. If my computer crashes... we will be able to add a Kickstarter add-on for my tears. 
• 11:50am - 10 minutes.... *deep breath* May the fates have mercy upon us all. 
• 12:00pm - KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!
• 12:05pm O.................M.............................G........................................................................................
• 12:30pm - Congratulations everyone!!!! We officially have the WORLD RECORD of the most % backed Kickstarter ever!
• 2:00pm - Wrote a Thank You to everyone who made this possible. 
• 2:30pm - Attempting to answer all of the emails pouring in.... O_O I am on it!
• 2:45pm - Saw a spammer attempting to sell Custom Tiers they allegedly squatted. This is not in the spirit of the Kickstarter and any accounts found doing this will be refunded to free up the slot. We have two more batches of custom items coming. The first tomorrow at noon, and then second the following day. 
• 2:55pm - In less than 3 hours, the community has already pledged over $400,000 (41,068,300% Funded) to bring AQWorlds to all devices.
• 3pm to 5pm - Whoops! I accidentally deleted all of the posts from this time. I have been responding to all of the messages on Kickstarter. Awesome to hear from so many long time and returning players! It really warms our hearts. Reminds us of what this game means... and how much people care about it. 
• 5:30pm - Confirmed... the next batch of Custom Tiers will become available tomorrow around noon. 
• 6:30pm - I made a Suggestion Box (Google form) A great place you can leave your ideas for the game. 

Day #1 Kickstarter Prize

Tuesday is the day! Anyone who backs the AQWorlds: Infinity Kickstarter within the first 24-hours will recieve a "Backed on the 1st Day" Statue of Dooooom for your in-game house. 

Making a video trailer because the Kickstarter... starts tomorrow!

The AdventureQuest Worlds: Infinity Kickstarter begins in less than 24 hours.... (Tuesday at noon EST). Over the weekend I put together the video trailer with the help of Alteon and the team. Thank you to everyone who ran around the game with me at the last moment to grab footage. At today's full team meeting... we split into two groups. Because over the next month we will be simultaneously running the Kickstarter & preparing for the launch of Infinity's Alpha. 

Bludrut Blade & Video Making

I LOVE the Bludrut Blade! It is probably the 1st "Infinity Weapon" to be fully completed. Ghost did the animation, shader, & particle FX. Cannot wait to see this version of the game filled with beautiful animated items. During the second half of today I returned to working on the Kickstarter trailer video (I am sooooo behind schedule) but ran into some hilarious bugs. Click read more below to see :D

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Kickstarter starts Tuesday!

The funding goal & reward tiers for the AQWorlds: Infinity Kickstarter has  officially been announced.  Join us on Tuesday (March 3rd, 2026) at noon (12:00pm EST). Bring popcorn and watch as our video game community attempts to break a world record.

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Battle on!

Despair told me there was an unexpected influx of AQWorlds streamers. To all of them, thank you! Friday, in Infinity, we continued the fixes and server patches. Got some super helpful tips (Love our Grey Hats). Also, Captain Rhubarb is experimenting with some compression to make the game run faster for you. As for the Kickstarter, I still need to make the trailer. The YouTuber/Player known as Alteon recorded almost all of the major cutscenes from AQWorlds and sent them too me to help. I love this community so much. 

"Tag, you're IT!"

Today was crazy productive! Thank you to the team and testers who helped with every part of today. From testing the new armors, character screen, player inspect screen, loot inventory, and power gems.... to checking & recording boss fights, fixing cutscenes, and writing... to working on the code for combat, hacking, and movement. Not to mention the late night Project Omni Coding :D It has been 15 hours. I am... Zzzz..... Zzzz....... battle... off.... zzzz.....

Now that... is a BUG!

Tunik, Warlic, and I were working on the Character screen just now and Tunik yells, "AH! A Bug!" I said... in the UI? He said, "No! On my desk!" Live-action game bugs? Game dev is fought with peril. 

Art Sneak Peek

Sneak peak of Kickstarter Epic Hero (Chaos Alignment) art. Aranx did the concept and J# flashed it. 

Armors are now customizable and animatable!

I <3 Warlic & Zhoom. Today they rolled out one of the biggest & best structural changes to AQWorlds Infinity. The entire publishing process of armors was changed.... so that we can add custom animation, layers, and FX to any part of the player's armor. 

Apply Weapon Power

Woohooo! Tunik showed the improvements to the weapon upgrades (Gems). I love it. It feels very natural to get a drops and power up your items. Diogon & J6 are working on some art tweaks to pretty it up. Going to need your help testing this. #HopefullyNextWeek

Redeem Code

Baring any unexpected tech issues or weird app store rules, you will be able to redeem your codes straight inside of AQWorlds Infinity. Love Diogon's UI for it. Warlic & Captain Rhubarb are working on rigging it up so it works.  

Character Screen

Diogon made the character screen very close to the one you can turn on in AQWorlds. J6 finished "Flashing" the Chaos variant of the Infinity Hero armor today too. 

Kickstarter art

The Kickstarter is less than 3 weeks away. Spent a good bit of today working on graphics for the page. What do you think of showing the game art like this for the section headers? Keep in mind it will be on a white background. I love the AQW art style so much. 

Ms. Girl makes a surprise entrance!

Here is a cutscene of my character (Artix) & Galanoth. HEY! That is not my player character. Nothing is scarier than hopping on to discover that every cutscene in the game is broken. The character on the left is Ms. Girl (Infinity's version of Mr. Guy). She is the stand-in art for the player when we build cutscenes. If we are seeing her, that means the player is not loading correctly into the cutscenes. What happened? Recently, we moved all the player animations out of the game client and into the Maps & Characters project. Guess we forgot to tell the cutscenes to grab the character stuff from the new place. By the time you read this it has already be fixed. Whew. Way better than re-animating every cutscene O_O.

New Login "Character" Screen

How nice would it be to login to a screen dedicated to your character? (Like DragonFable) Currently, logging in to AQWorlds, takes you go straight to the server selection screen. It would be really helpful be able to see and manage your character before entering a server. So the team just added a character screen. (We would call it a character selection screen... but you currently only have one character. It COULD be used as a character selection screen in the future.) On this screen you can preview your character, enter codes, choose a server, and get any important messages about the game (like if the servers are offline while we release something new. We have a pretty bad UI for it currently. Diogon & Tunik are eyeball-deep working on the Item Power Ups and Character Creation screens. So this screen will get some love next. One of the nicest parts about this, is any player (including ones not able to access the next tech demo) will be able to login and see their character in Infinity. 

Just submitted the Kickstarter for approval...

Before you can launch a Kickstarter, it must be reviewed and approved. I gulped with a look of concern before pressing the "Submit for review" button today. As you may have read, we are doing something... unusual... crazy... and very, very "Artix Entertainment-y". I hope the absurdity of this brings back those feelings of doing crazy stuff together in good old days. Because Kickstarter instantly approved it.