Battleon Briefing, Vol. 1

Hello heroes! Beleen here. Now that I’ve officially been blessed with Infinity posting powers, I am absolutely going to abuse them for the greater good and start posting aplenty. For starters: weekly wrap-up recaps like this one!

Every week our amazing dev team makes new things, fixes bugs, adds features, accidentally creates brand new bug species, squashes those bugs, and somehow still has enough energy to launch a brand-new AQW release. So here's a sneak peek behind the scenes at what the team has been working on... featuring only the things I’m like 72% sure I’m allowed to publicly tell you about.

Weekly Roundup

The team's been working on and improving a whole bunch of systems, including:

• Feature to select your character's Title
• A special button to display who sponsored an item.
• Hold-to-skip cutscene 
• Class UI improvements
• Housing and Statue polish
• Lots and LOTS of miscellaneous fixes and quality-of-life improvements

Inventory

Some of the improvements currently in development:

• Classes moved into their own unlimited Class interface
• Simplified inventory organization
• Favorite Items for quality of life (QoL) improvement 
• Better ways to browse nearly 20 years of collected items without feeling too overwhelmed

Android Development

The team currently working on the Android version of AQWorlds Infinity! We're currently working through:

• UI restructuring
• Resolution improvements
• Mobile specific functionality
• Specific Android fixes
• Testing different controller layouts while playing on mobile 

Founder's Sanctuary

J# is working on the art for the outside and inside of the tower. 

• All players will be able to visit the Founder's Sanctuary to do quests in the garden, and see the statues and other credits in the tower.  
• There will also be a Founder-only area in the center of the Tower. (Secret)

Housing & Founder Statues

Immortal Founders and above will eventually be able to:

• Say ciao to NPC da Vinchi to create a personalized statue of their character (it’s gonna take about 30 seconds because carving a stone statue takes time, people!!) 
• Even cooler than that?! Your Founder Statue will automatically update if you ever change your in-game character name! (which is also going to make Player Support much happier... considering the tens of thousands of supporters o__O) 
• Special version of the Flying Castle that will display your statue. 

More heroes joining Alpha soon

Originally, only Kickstarter Backers could participate in the Infinity Alpha. Soon we'll also be inviting players with 15th, 16th, and 17th Upholder Status into the playtest! More heroes means more testing... which means more bug reports... which means the coding team will need more coffee!! 

Infinity Hero Class

Woooohooo! The 1st version of the Infinity Hero Class is nearly ready for you to test!

Immortal Joe, Jongaar, and Diogon are now adding soundFX and better icons to this legendary new Class. We seriously cannot wait for you to get your hands on it. I’m over here fan-girl freaking out because I haven’t even gotten to try it myself yet, so I'm going to be right there alongside y'all when you get to test it, too!

Our dev team did a phenomenal job, and Nulgath’s animations are out of this AQWorld!

Graveyard x GraveRoof update

Sir Fainal may have raised the roof a little too literally last week! A storm came through and decided to give his house an unexpected renovation by blowing his roof away! Because of that, work on the Graveyard is moving a little slower than expected while he handles important repairs, but progress is back underway. Hopefully this is the last 'shingle' surprise for a while!

Thank you everyone

The AQW team has been releasing updates every week while simultaneously building brand-new systems, improving existing features, and preparing Infinity for even more players.

To everyone testing, reporting bugs, sharing feedback, snapping screenshots, sending postcards, and cheering us on… Thank you! We couldn't have done this without you, and, if I'm being perfectly honesty, we wouldn't want to, either :)

Battle on all week long!