AQWorlds - Design Notes: J6

Design Notes
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Dragon-adin	September 07, 2011 DragonCon Review! It is... STORY TIME A design notes post was so big... it gets it's own page! Proceed if you dare witness embarrasing photos of the real life staff and this years line up of Artix Entertainment's DragonCon adventures! Best DragonCon EVAR!!!!!!! Tags: Artix DragonCon Panel J6 Photos Stories
Bountymaker	August 06, 2011 You know you're a Bounty Hunter when... You wield dual pistols... ...while defying gravity AND bullet time! How do YOU know you're a Bounty Hunter? Let us know on Twitter, Facebook, and the forums and then tell your friends! Tags: Alina J6 Bounty Hunter
Sockperium	August 05, 2011 J6's Hyperium Continues The Mysterious Bounty Hunter Flies Again! The puzzle-driven J6 area got a big expansion this week! If you are up to date all you need to do to continue your space-western adventure is enter the Hyperium's VR room and head to the next area! If you're NOT YET up to date, you will need to play through all of J6's previous content to get to this week's map, items, the much-coveted J5 armor and several cutscenes that raise a lot more questions about this masked man. In related news, J6 will be at DragonCon with the rest of this year, so if you can make it to our annual panel at DragonCon in Atlanta, GA at the beginning of next month, then you'll get to meet the man behind the mask. Player Suggestion Shop Update! Once again we have taken a number of suggestions from players just like you and pulled them into the game in Yulgar's Player Suggestion Shop! This week, both Dage and Mennace chose to reshape these items into AQW items! Gia Blade - Vamprincess Dorene137 Paladin's Victory - pikachu199519 Soul Stealer Advanced - Darkon Drago Demonic Revenge - Darkon Drago Snowstorm Hood - gompa Snowstorm - gompa DragonSlayer's Solace Hat - mietior DragonSlayer's Solace - mietior Royal Maximus - Prince Knight As usual, each of these items have been given to their creators regardless if they are member, non-member or AC items. If YOU have an idea for an item that you would like to see brought to life in AQW, please visit out Suggestion Forums and make a post. Who knows, maybe yours will be in the next round! Please, remember: Even thought we do like to see your art and ideas on Twitter and Facebook, We ONLY take items from those forums to add to the game! We don't add every items in the forums, but if it's NOT in the forums, we WILL NOT add it. New PET O' THE MONTH: The Vordred Nightmare Pony BATTLE PET! It's a new month and that (sometimes) means a new PET O' THE MONTH! This month, in honor of the completion of the Vordred Storyline and the internet's recent fascination with ponies, we've combined these two ideas into one terribly cute monstrosity of necromancy. Introducing the member only BATTLE PET (Works as a normal pet, but for NECROMANCER it will replace your Skeleton base pet for damage dealing!) He's been hugged and battle-tested against Noxus in the Shadowfall war to guage his lovable might. Visit Aria's Shop in Battleontown to get your own Vordred Nightmare Pony! NO GENDER CHANGE THIS TIME! Sadly, J6's maps are so insanely involved that Yorumi didn't have time to properly code or test the Gender Change option which will hopefully come next week but we did make a few changes that you might have already noticed. QUEST TRACKER: The first addition is a new Quest Tracker Button on your character portrait. It's right there on the left, opposite your level. Just click this and any quests you are on will appear in a list on your screen to help you keep track of what you need to complete it without opening your Quest Log every time. CHARACTER PAGE UPGRADE: The second change is on your character page. Now you can look at almost anyone's character page and see exactly what they have equipped right next to their image. (I say ALMOST anyone, because MOD items do not show correctly). Now available for the iPhone and Android The AE team created a mobile app our favorite voice actor... ME! So now, you too can have your life narrated by George Lowe (best known as the voice of Space Ghost!) Includes 300+ soundbites (even some favorites from the games.) At the touch of your fingertip, you will instantly be able to make any cramped elevator more uncomfortable. Now in App Stores! Get it for the iPhone and iPod Get it for the Android The app name is "George Lowe Bites" if you go to the app store to search for it. Next week we begin work on our next CHAOS ZONE, you can also expect a Mennace LQS (keep watching the Design Notes for times, items lists, images and prices!). Until then, have a great weekend! or else. Tags: Cysero J6 Hyperium Player Suggestion Shop Quest Tracker Character Page DragonCon Secret Hints
Helm-adin	August 04, 2011 J6 - The Helm Hyperium expansion... tomorrow! In game, many of us know J6 as a 6-shooter wielding bounty hunter. In real life, J6 is an increadibly talented artist, sculptor and creative genious. Few people remember this... but J6 started as a player of the original AdventureQuest. His fan art on the forums earned him a place on the team. Currently, He is the only artist in all of Artix Entertaiment to have created art for every single one of our games. This week, we will learn secrets behind J6's in-game character in his private zone, Hyperium. And we will all discover together why Alina said, "Artix, the photo is way more significant than anyone reading your post will realize." The Hyperium Zone is coming in AQWorlds tomorrow! Tags: Artix J6 Hyperium
Potionmaker1	August 01, 2011 A Six-Sational Week Coming Up! J6's storyline and feature updates ahead! Junk in the trunk? Who would'a thunk? J6 could, would, and DID! And so did all of you, because you kept requesting more Hyperium updates. That's why, even though he's on a well-deserved vacation this week, we're taking you from the Sandsea's Spitoon Saloon full of hard-ridin', quick-shootin' cowboys all the way into... SPACE! This Friday you'll want to check out J6's popup text for the hint to where the next encrypted Datadisk is hidden. Happy hunting! And once you find it, you'll need to make your way to the Hyperium's reality-bending VR Room because the search for item 58-Sr3 is ON, and it's VITAL J6 finds it! 58-S4r3 is the key to a plan that's been in production for millennia! The Hyperium's Artificial Life system is voiced by Warlic. Remember, though, that everything you'll be seeing in the VR Room is all a part of J6's memories, as replayed by HAL. And memories can contain a lot of clues about a person... IF you're quick enough to pick up on them! What have YOU learned about J6 so far? And what will you learn this weekend? Better sharpen your wits and polish your six-shooters, because you're going to need to puzzle (and BATTLE!) your way through Friday's out-of-this-world update! Suggestion Shop Update Coming! That's right, it's time for another round of Player Suggestions to be released in-game! We've gotten some REALLY good submissions, and we're eager to see your art Flashed-up and spiffified by our artists. If you haven't shown us any of your art yet, head on over to the AQW Suggestions board and share it with everyone! Features, features, features! We've been planning on making some feature changes and updates to the game for a while, and now that the DoomWood Saga is over, we've got the means and the manpower to make them happen! Here's what we'll be working on this week: PVP duel on/off: choose whether or not to receive 1v1 PvP invites Book of Lore restructure: streamlining, updating and re-organizing Character Page updates: list items equipped Gender changes: from male to female and back again! (AC feature) We're PLANNING on getting ALL of these out this week, but we can't promise that EVERY one of them will be released. Most of these feature implementations are on Yorumi's schedule, and he also has to code the J6 release. So if you're really eager to see these get in-game, make sure you /cheer Yorumi on! Tags: Alina J6 Gender changes Book of Lore PvP Duel Off Character Page
Handbook-adin	November 22, 2010 The BattleOn Handbook It is not just a job... it is an AdventureQuest! There are only three days until our Harvest Festival begins. It starts at the same time as the Thanksgiving holiday starts. Knowing that everyone would be on super crunch schedules we did the usual... an unnessasrily long staff meeting to distribute and review our new official BattleOn Employee Handbook! Yes, it is official, forged by boodthirsty vampire lawyers and legally binding. Here are a few highlights for you. Pg 54. Section 906. Nose Pointing "The Nose Goes" Effective Date: 11/1/2010 In the event that a trivial action must be performed by one individual in a group of equally qualified personnel, the last person to touch their index finger to their nose shall be responsible for performing the task" Pg 53. Table Gum Effective Date: 11/1/2010 The person who takes the last piece of gum located in the center of the DragonFable table shall be responsible for replacing it. This can be done by purchasing a new container of gum and placing it at the center of the table during the next business day. A.) Shaking the Table Gum container to determine the quantity of gum remaining is not permissible. Therefore, if you shake, you take. B.) Tricking non-DragonFable team members to partake from the Table Gum container is allowed and strongly encouraged. (Yes, those are really in the handbook) Meanwhile... J6 has just arrived at the Secret Underground Lab! AQworlds artist J6 has just arrived here. Literally. He is standing behind me watching me type this. He says, "I need to leave!" (No worries, we immediately chained him in front of a computer and drawing tablet.) He and Cinazul had a 3 day drive from Montreal, Canada. They said the trip was like going back in time. See, it is starting to snow up there but it is crazy hot down here. So all of the leaves were gone on the trees when they started but as they got closer to Florida the trees started having leaves on them. They said it was like going through the seasons in reverse! Hmmm, I wonder if they will end up staying in the DoomKnight room. Forum Question: Oishii is cooking again for the Harvest Festival. RUN!!!!!! Are there any "Rare Dishes" you would like to see on the menu? Forum Question 2: Would you be interested in a pet that allowed you to access your bank? What about a shop? (You know, so you can sell stuff without returning to town?) Tags: Artix Oishii J6 Thanksgiving Nose Goes Table gum DragonFable
Stream-adin	July 29, 2010 J6's 1st Live Drawing Event First he draws his 6-shooter... then he draws it! Today, we experimented by having our very first LIVE drawing session. J6 streamed a live video feed of his screen allowing players to watch him as he drew a weapon from scratch. Thank you to everyone who came to watch. We hope you enjoyed it and will definately be doing it again in the near future. Watching J6 draw is a lot of fun! (Maybe Miltonius can do one for us also?) I was on the Sir Ver server with my PMs on tallying up the votes from players to determine what he should do next (they flew past at 20 to 30 tells a second -- it was crazy) The items J6 drew during the event will be available in tomorrow's GIANT finale release. Free version and Color Customizable Member version available for 1337g tomorrow! Special note: We voted on everything while he was making the weapon. The winning vote for the handle color was between Red, Blue and "Chuck Norris" We all had sprayed our monitors with our drink when J6 actually pulled up a picture of Chuck Norris and picked colors directly out of his beard! Regarding the upcoming Friday the 13th Event ... I just got off the phone with George Lowe. \trying to keep a secret... failing/ This is going to be fun! Tags: J6 Draw Game Art Artix
Bounty Hunter	June 07, 2010 We tested it, no lies! Release is live with 68% of the content inaccessible! Wow, friday's release was a trainwreck of unreachable madness! I have no idea what to say except that we really did test everything, and it was working. Most available staff helped all week long to test J6's zone and everything was running really well. There were a few speedbumps on Friday which pushed the release back 'till late but when we put the servers back up we were sure everything was working. Minor problem though, players couldn't reach the release! So we goofed, and by the time everything was out it was too late, the only people left awake were Beleen and I, and we no code good. We were able to reach Llussion late friday and he fixed the problem preventing people from joining saloon but when he left again it was too late for us to tell him Zephyrus was also un-joinable. So all of that is behind us, its a new week, new problems to create! Hopefully we've fixed everything and you'll be able to enjoy the release and actually finish part 1. Apparently the only thing preventing people from getting to the map was a letter was lower-case when it should have been upper-case. Things like this make me really glad I'm an artist. Imagine having a map not work because of one misplaced blade of grass... This week: junkyards and rings! Tags: J6