Story time "Calling Adobe Support"

So, I simultaneously called and started a live chat with Adobe.... told them that we received their email announcing the end of Adobe Animate. They had no idea what I was talking about. They proceeded to try and sell me licenses for Adobe Animate. /facepalm I said, "No, no, no. You sent me an email saying this product was being removed from their line up. They suspiciously asked me for screenshots of the email as proof-- which I sent. They low key tried to convince me it was fake until I sent them a link of their own help page verifying the announcement. Four other team members were quietly listening from our team's voice chat trying really hard not to burst into laughter. It was funny but bewildering sad at the same time. Adobe support had never been notified that this change was coming. Politely asked to be escalated to someone on their backend or enterprise team. I am currently waiting for them to contact me back. 

Thank goodness we are building Infinity

Boy, do I have some good and bad news. In the past 24 hours, I learned that the original AQWorlds might be able to run in the browser again... and then got an email from adobe that they are killing the drawing & animation tool we have been using for the last 24 years. #GameDevWhiplash I am really grateful we are building and launching Infinity... it is immune to that problem. Read more for details. 

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Dage went to physical therapy in his new black armor

6 months ago, (Real-Life) Dage had knee surgery. Yes, he got the injury in an armored sword fight. This week, he had a test at physical therapy to see if he was ready to fight again. Of course he wore his new black armor... click read more to see more GIFs. 

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Power Gem Progress

I like posting pictures of broken things like this... because when you play it and see everything working, you will know how far it came. Spider & Tunik have been working on the power gems & inventory... hit the read more below for full details. 

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Use On Item?

When a monster drops a Gem, you can use it to power up an item. What do you think about this (or something like it) as the button to use it. 

Kickstarter Armors

JX (artist) just finished flashing three of the four alignment variant (hero, good, evil, chaos) Kickstarter Armors. Lae (artist) did the original concept art. The matching weapons are breathtaking. Meanwhile, the team is working on the Power Gem system and character creation/customization. Ghost is working on the next cutscenes. 

Power Up your Gear

We spent 5 hours reviewing and improving the design of the games upgrade system. The underlying tech is solid, the experience of getting item upgrades (Power Gems) and socketing them into your weapons needed to be more fun. We also needed to make it super easy for players coming from the existing AQWorlds to power up their items so they can use them immediately. Also... we solved that aspect ratio issue :D

AQWorlds Infinity Kickstarter just announced!

It is happening! The AQWorlds Infinity Kickstarter goes live on Tuesday, March 3, 2026 at high noon. 

Activate Shink Ray!

Previous versions of Infinity were about 1.5 Gigabytes. Zhoom did some extreme spring cleaning. Now the game is just 261MB. Meanwhile, I updated the Progress Update page after the team meeting this morning. We are currently doing an in-house text of the Item Power (Gem) system. The UI needs some work. Tomorrow morning we will be doing a focused work session on changing the UI. Here is a sneak peek at one of the Infinity armor sets. 

No A.I. Art in Infinity

All art drawn & animated by humans

Happy Friday! Alina asked ChatGTP "Hey, was this image created by AI?" Read on to see what happened. (Note: This was painted by Dage in 2013)

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Intro Cutscene... complete!

Ghost (Animator) uploaded the final version of the Intro cutscene today... complete with Sound FX. The GIF below is where you land and your adventure will begin. 

Aspect Ratio Drama

An aspect (ratio) of game design that is rarely discussed. That is, how the UI looks on different size screens. Our Gem-enhancement UI looks so good on wide monitors, but look how it appears on an iPad/Android Tablet. Oooof. Flies right off the screen. This is because we need three panels open at the same time. We have two options. We can shrink everything (terrible for small devices). Or we can center the new UI potentially covering the other panels. (Not fantastic, but probably the best move.) This is the last known issue holding up the way we will power up our weapons.

Doom Armor Sneak Peak

Lae designed four armor concepts which will be used as Kickstarter rewards. There is one gloriously epic main armor, and then three different alignment ones (Doom, Chaos, & Destiny). This Doom armor with the vampire-esque cloak is wicked. 

Character Creation Progress

Soooo clean! Diogon just showed us this mockup for the UI at today's team meeting. Warlic finished the server-side code for character creation last week. Next is to make it all work... and add a bunch of animation and stuff. 

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Chaos Armor Sneak Peak

Happy Friday! AQWorld's new release is getting ready to roll. So I will leave you with this concept art for the Kickstarter's Chaos Armor reward. 

Who wants a Q&A session?

Do you want a Q&A session too? Despair told me a lot of players want to have one. How about after (or during?) the next tech demo? Which we would like to do as soon as the current round of features are complete. The team is still working on everything we talked about in the previous posts. Today was an extra strange day for me... click read more if you are interested. 

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Meet Booker at the Book Store

Booker may be AQWorlds Infinity's 1st new storyline NPC. He runs the new book store that you will encounter in the intro. I love that Aranx did a stealth glow up on him already. We have seen a lot of mixed feedback about the glow-up art in previous posts in the past. But we have also heard the overwhelmingly positive reactions to how good the art looks when you are actually in the tech demo. The subtle shading really helps when the vector (line) art is converted to bitmap (pixel) art. Especially when it is resized to be very small or very large. 

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Daily Posts

"A post a day keeps the..."

Greetings and salutations! Miko just added this awesome new "quick post" feature to the AdventureQuest Worlds: Infinity website. It makes it easier for you to see the latest daily post. To kick us off... here is a quick GIF from the game's new intro.