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05/11/2026 @ 11:21 PM
A few things to get off my CHEST(s)...
The Epic Founder chests (Chaos, Doom, & Destiny) just came in. I want to open them. Hope they are not secretly mimics.
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The Epic Founder chests (Chaos, Doom, & Destiny) just came in. I want to open them. Hope they are not secretly mimics.
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Well, that is a nice feature that I discovered during testing tonight. Normally I /goto players. But here, you can send a summon request to bring them to you. Like the original game these can be toggled on/off.
We found a few urgent bugs today... if you have a class equipped, but not an armor, it can mess up the game. That is a priority patch. The screenshot below is when I discovered if you looted a monster right before a cutscene started, your inventory stays on top of the cutscene, but you cannot interact with anything. /facepalm. LOL, I love how Twilly's dialog just happened to perfectly match with the bug as it happened.
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Every Friday has been an explosion of Alpha progress and new features. Probably because everyone gets their assignments on Monday and merges them into the game project by Friday. Parties were added, Warlic pushed an even better armor conversion toolset (it did take 5+ hours to republish the existing armors today), quest bugs that have been blocking Alpha have been fixed, the movement bugs are fixed, character panel got an upgrade, the statue generator is now on the live server, several memory leaks patched, and as a cherry on top URP & a bloom slider was added. We also have a design for the site we are creating to track and deliver backer codes, keys, and rewards.
It has been one heck of a good week. Our internal tests are still discovering a few urgent issues that need to be patched in order to start Alpha. Like, for some reason you can log into both AQWorlds and Infinity at the same time right now. (Very dangerous.) Also, half of our monster & NPC heads broke in the portraits. Meanwhile, AQWorlds adding their versions of the Kickstarter Reward shops and preparing a new page in the account management site for Benevolent Founders & above to do their thing. Players who play on the existing AQWorlds are probably going to be pretty happy.
The spooky part is, the stuff I wrote above does not even begin to show just how much is happening all at once right now. It is insane. It is also sorta refreshing to be this deep in the heat of battle again. After I wrap up my map work, will answer KS messages and then get some rest. It is going to be weekend full of AQWorlds preparation. :D
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Legendary Founders from the AQWorlds: Infinity Kickstarter get all three versions of the Epic Hero Armors. I love the way the armors came out. Take the Destiny themed armor below... amazing!
We had received requests from Legendary Founders for something on the armor that would show their tier. So we decided to add variants. Originally, the variants had a very subtle difference-- a badge-like attachment with a logo on it. But when Alina and the AQWorlds team saw it, they were adamant that backers would want us to go overboard for the variants. We always aim to please :D. So we came up with a plan for each of the epic armors. J# started on the art. For the Destiny armor's variant we decided to go with "DARK DESTINY". Here is a work-in-progress screenshot.
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Nope. We just did a re-publish of ALL 362 of the converted monsters & NPCs for Alpha. Some things broke. This is was a weird and spooky bug. Somehow the GPU Skinning was switched to CPU, and a bunch of other settings glitched. As of this post, it all appears to be fixed. #whew.It is 11pm, going to try to handle the Kickstarter messages. We turned on a thing that allowed people to edit their pledges, but for some reason it broke the pledge manager and everyone was getting 403 errors. We sent in tickets and are waiting to hear back.
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Alina posted these AQWorlds Infinity Kickstarter badges on social media... sharing them here for you too.
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Unfortunately, so is the data center. Woke up to discover that one of the data centers hosting our game servers is literally on fire. How hard have you guys been playing AQWorlds!? We were told this has no relation to the fire-themed Scion of Flames Class that just released in AQWorlds.
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Read Alpha & Rewards Update plus "How Monsters are Made" on Kickstarter.
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Beautifully wicked! The Octobear is the first monster Nulgath animated since learning how particles FX and the URP stuff.
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Spider & Immortal Joe just fixed the dreaded and hard to find "invisible other players in the same instance" bug! It has been a huge day for bug fixes, they have been on fire. They also added Unity's URP to the game client and map project! But as per my fear, we have to convert every shader in the game. It might do it automatically if we just republish the asset bundles, so trying that tomorrow. Tutulio is at the final boss fight part of the Character Creation process. Zhoom has been fixing lag and memory issues. Ghost finished up Moglin pets and is doing some final polish before we start sending it to other devs to begin converting the other moglins. Founder Dragons are next. I created re-usable prefabs for all of our common map machines and applied them to the Intro. Simplified a really complex quest flow down to one step... pretty excited. It is just past 10pm. So going to switch from game development to answering the urgent KS messages (less than a hundred... I should be able to finish my midnight.). Planning to write another big update post tomorrow.
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How to build Eternal Thanks? Step #1... concentrate gratitude into pure gold concentrate and forge it into the form of a Moglin. It radiates hearts of golden gratitude like a fusion reactor radiates radiation. Our lead scientists have determined that these are not toxic, but may still have a long lasting effect. Step #2 coming soon.
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1st peek at the 3 Epic Founder Dragons. Inspired by the original Platinum Founder Dragon, and themed to Chaos, Doom, and Destiny. Our jaws dropped when Aranx just posted them to the dev server moments ago.
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On Friday, Ghost finished animating the moglin pet and tried adding one to the game as an NPC. But when he added it, nothing happened. So he kept trying to add them. Nothing happened. During the Monday morning full team meeting, we all logged on and were brutally mauled by an angry mob of hostile yellow moglins. Turns out it DID work... the server just needed a restart. :D
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Nulgath showed everyone this at the full team meeting this morning. If we implement Unity's URP (Universal Rendering Pipeline) we can start using fancy shaders like these. I want this so bad. Not sure how much will be impacted by this. Might have to implement URP after Alpha goes live.
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When creating a new account, there is a particle burst that plays when you switch classes. Nulgath hand animated the first one in flash. Now he is using Unity's particle system to recreate it and... it looks awesome!
Ghost began creating the base animations for pet Moglins. Both the normal animations... and the Battle Pet animations :D Hit read more below to see more GIFs.
