Artix
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
