Design Notes
October 06, 2022
Happy 20th Birthday, AdventureQuest
They level up so fast, don’t they?
The game that started it all just turned 20 years old! 🥳
Back in the day, the original AdventureQuest (commonly referred to as BattleOn) dominated high school computer labs since it was legitimately one of the two online games available at the time. Sure, there were other Flash-based mini-games out there like Frog in a Blender and Gerbil in a Microwave,* but none of these time-killers compared to the full RPG experience of AQ.
* Gosh, the early 2000s had a sick sense of humor…
Before AQ came along, the only way to play a full RPG video game was to buy a physical game for your PC or console. That. Was. It. You (aka your parents) would have to shell out like $50 to buy a game cartridge or a CD, oooor you’d have to wait weeks for a certain game to become available at Blockbuster.** Of course, there was always the option to play games at your friend’s house, but it wasn’t much fun playing a single player RPG with only one save slot 😭
** I am seriously aging myself with all these archaic references.
But then!! AdventureQuest came along in 2002 and revolutionized the gaming experience! No longer did you have to worry that your eMachines computer wasn’t powerful enough to run the latest CD-ROM; AQ made gaming possible anywhere, so long as your computer was hooked up to the internet (back then, it was called the World Wide Web dial-up connection). High school and middle school computer labs were prime gaming grounds thanks to AQ’s browser-based gameplay, a F2P model that was unheard of at the time, and some of the worst graphics you had ever seen!
Fast forward 20 years, and AQ is still free-to-play with much better graphics than before (except that default character face — goodness gracious!!). If you wanna check out the game that started it all, check out that default face I mentioned, and check out the birthday celebrations happening now in the OG AQ, then tickle this link right here!
Update: AE’s 20th Anniversary in AQW
There are some things in life that are out of our control. Sometimes it’s pimples, sometimes it’s terrible fashion trends, and other times it’s devastating forces of nature. Hurricane Ian wrecked Florida last week; our thoughts, prayers, and positive vibes go out to everyone affected by the storm. Thankfully, all of the AE team and their families were unharmed, although some suffered property damage and went without power & water for many days. *gasp* Does that mean y’all went without coffee too?! *sobbing hugs*
Hard to work on anything — esp computer game stuff — when you don’t have any power. That being said, we have to push back AE’s Anniversary event to the following Friday, October 14, 2022. I knnnnoooww I said it would begin Oct 7, but good luck voicing complaints to a Hurricane 🤷♀️
The 20th Anniversary event is still so enormous (and somehow got even bigger, thanks Artix lol) it will span the course of 2 weeks PLUS we’ve got Mogloween nipping at our heels AND ermahgerd there’s so much going on this month and in this run-on sentence SO here’s the current updated AQW release plan (barring any other force majeure events):
October 7
- seasonal Mogloween events return
- seasonal AQWorlds Birthday maps + gear return
- Artix 20th Anniversary Collection Chest
- 14th Birthday Gift I: Free inventory + bank slots
October 14
- AE 20th Anniversary Event, Part I
- Artix 20th Anniversary Collection Chest update
- 2022 Achievement Tracker gifts
- 14th Birthday Gift II: 500 free AdventureCoins
October 21
- AE 20th Anniversary Event, Part II
- 14th Birthday Class: ArchMage
- 14th Birthday Gift III: Multi turn-in / buy / sell / enhance
October 28
- 2022 Mogloween event
- Wheel of Doom Treasure Chest update
- 14th Birthday Gift IV: Cosmetic / outfit slots
As if all that wasn’t enough, there’s all kinds of other stuff you can do in the meantime, like gettin’ yer gauntlets on the new Star Swords and collecting viscera (uh wut?) during the newest Carnax adventure. I saw somewhere on Reddit that there’s this heccin sweet house item but idk if that is for realsies or is just joke. It was these 2 dragons coming down through the ceiling as if home insurance would be a-okay covering that claim.
“First Hurricane Ian, and now DRAGONS?” No wonder why insurance companies are leaving Florida…
Well just like everyone else at AE, I have got to get back to work! BTW: when I wrote this, it was Wednesday, so that means we should ALL have worn PINK! 💞
xoxo, Beleen :D
July 29, 2015
Chaos Queen Beleen Shop Leaving
Last Chance to Get Chaos Queen Beleen Rares!
If you haven't played through the Chaos Queen Beleen release, then you are missing out! You can begin your war against the pinkification of Lore when you /join drearia! If you are a FAN of the color pink, adorably fiending things, or fan-favorite artist Nulgath, then you want to make sure you don't miss the Chaos Queen Beleen Rares shop!
The Chaos Queen Beleen shop holds:
- Cutie Makai Bank Pet
- Chibi Nulgath Bank Pet
- Chaos Beleen Sparkles
- Purified Axe of Nulgath
- Purified Blade of Nulgath
- Purified Scythe of Nulgath
- Purified Polearm of Nulgath
- Nulgaleen Horns Morph
- Nulgaleen Locks Morph
- Chibi Nulgath Helm
- Icy Chibi Nulgath Helm
- Pinkitron Armor
- Chibi Head Pilot
- Icy Chibi Nulgath Kitty Helm
The items in the July Holiday Rares shop also leave tomorrow night, so be sure to snag anything you want now, before they are gone until next year!
July 03, 2015
This Weekend: Beleen's Chaos Incarnate
Save AQWorlds from Chaos Queen Beleen!
Beleen, Artix Entertainment's bubbliest, most positively-pink developer has discovered the sad, abandoned village of Drearia and vows to bring it back to life. But after accidentally stumbling Nulgath the ArchFiend, lord of the Oversoul and former ruler of the Underworld, her powers of randomness and cheer... mutate in the STRANGEST way possible!
Starting tonight, /join Drearia and battle your way through Beleen's re-envisioning of AQWorlds... cuter, pinker, and with MUCH more Chaos! If you don't want to battle through a pink world, we need YOU to stop her!
Find the rare gear shop in your game menu, with new (unpink) items from Nulgath!* Then head into Beleen's adventure and begin the battle (plus, get some super-sweet monster drops, if you're lucky)!
* If you follow my Twitter feed, you know that I am absolutely crazy about the chibi nulgath! I could not stop turning it into more and more gear. Real Fiends go Chibi!
A Message from Beleen
Weeeeee! I just know you are going to love-love-LOVE this special… albeit CRAZY!... release that me and the AQWorlds team have spent 3 weeks developing. It was A LOT of work (requiring A LOT of caffeine), but it was totally worth the long hours and coffee-stained smile because I really wanted to make my Chaos Beleen storyline the most fun and memorable release in the game’s history.
…aaaand not to mention, I kinda wanted MY release to totally PWN Cysero’s and Artix’s events. Teehehhehee >:D
But! In order for that dream to come to fruition, I am going to need your help. I need YOU to join the #BeleenTeam and help spread the word of this weekend's Chaos Queen Beleen event!
Invite all your friends to come play AQ.com tomorrow night with us, and if you happen to know someone who used to play AQWorlds, let them know that I designed this new release and I would love it if they came back and played AQW with me! Woohoo!!
Thanks so much for making my fantasy (…of forcing Artix to wear pink, LOL!) into reality, and I really hope you enjoy playing tomorrow’s Chaos Queen Beleen release alongside me, Artix, Nulgath, and 30000 of our closest friends!
Pink On and Battle On!
xoxo Beleen =D
Summer 2015: Return of the Living Devs Continues
So far, we've seen one release from each of our three returning devs - Artix, Cysero, and Beleen!
Make sure you've played through all three stories before next week, when Artix re-returns with his Living dungeon release! He, Dage, J6, and the rest of the team have a titan-sized adventure planned for you... next week!
July 02, 2015
This Friday: Chaos Queen Beleen Release!
AQWorlds Weekly News for July 3, 2015
Hiya hero! I am SUPER excited to announce this week’s newest release:
Chaos Queen Beleen Art Print Now in HeroMart!
Make your way to HeroMart.com, our online, real-life merchandise store to find the new Chaos Queen Beleen Arti Print! Inspired by Beleen, marketing writer for Artix Entertainment, and created by Nulgath, master artist, this 8.5x11" limited edition print will bring chaos and craziness to your room, dorm, office, or castle!
June 29, 2015
I’m Having Too Much Fun!
Beleen’s Chaos Queen Release Launches this Friday, July 3
Tehehehe… Artix’s eyes will bleed RAINBOWS when he sees this!!
…also, I am NOT a paid artist…
=D
June 26, 2015
NEW Print at Heromart: Chaos Queen Beleen
Embrace the Chaos with Nulgath's New Print
Make your way to HeroMart.com, our online, real-life merchandise store to find the new Chaos Queen Beleen Arti Print! Inspired by Beleen, marketing writer for Artix Entertainment, and created by Nulgath, master artist, this 8.5x11" limited edition print will bring chaos and craziness to your room, dorm, office, or castle!
Nulgath the lead designer for Oversoul and long time artist for AdventureQuest Worlds brings his unique art to HeroMart. We appreciate him taking the time between waging wars and gathering minions to create this awesome art piece and the in-game Items!
The Chaos Queen Beleen print comes with the exclusive Chaos Beleen armor! The Locks of Love and Spikes of Love helms pictured above will be available both with the HeroMart print and from this week's story release shop.
Next Friday in AQWorlds: All Hail Chaos Queen Beleen!
Beleen, Artix Entertainment's bubbliest, most positively-pink developer has discovered the sad, abandoned village of Drearia and vows to bring it back to life. But after accidentally stumbling Nulgath the ArchFiend, lord of the Oversoul and former ruler of the Underworld, her powers of randomness and cheer... mutate in the STRANGEST way possible!
June 24, 2015
AQWeekly Newsletter: June 26 2015
Deadmoor Spirit release written by Cysero
Everyone’s favorite Mad Weaponsmith, Cysero, specially designed Friday’s upcoming release: Deadmoor Spirit!
Click to read this week’s brand new newsletter and discover all the new NEW happening this week!
June 18, 2015
AQWeekly Newsletter: June 19 2015
New layout. New adventures. New story written by Artix!
Hi! You’ve got mail!
Click to read this week’s brand new newsletter—not only was it personally created by Artix himself, but Artix also wrote this week’s new game release: Ebil DreadSpace. AQW’s summer event starts off with a blast… off into space!
June 11, 2015
VelocityAE - NEW MOBILE GAME!
Retro Arcade Game Made in a Day
If you thought Flappy Bird was hard, you gotta try this app. It is hard, retro, hard, simple and super hard. Lasting 10 seconds pretty much means you are a gaming god.
Surprise Mobile Game Release
Available now on iOS and Android devices! Introducing VelocityAE… brought forth from 1980s with a time travel device.
“Buuuuuut wait, this doesn’t look like ANY game Artix has ever made before!”
Right you are. And that’s because it wasn’t really made at Artix Entertainment.
“HUH?!?”
Hehe, let me explain:
If you’re a long-time player of Artix games, then you probably recognize this fellow.
That’s Rolith, our resident code monkey. He’s been Artix’s longest coder, cracking away at DragonFable in 2006, and has dabbled in just about every Artix game ever since.
But, man, Rolith LOVES his job. When he’s not typing code at breakneck speeds here at the Secret Underground Lab, he’s at home writing even more ridiculous code “for funsies” (Rolith’s words exactly). I bet his dreams are in C#.
| So it should come to no surprise that Rolith decided to make a game in his spare time... because, funsies. So one night, Rolith started building something he was really passionate about (retro arcade runners), and 24 hours later… VelocityAE was born. |  |
It’s a rare sight to see Rolith beam as brightly as me, but when Rolith came into the Secret Lab the next morning flashing a HUGE smile, everyone knew that he was up either up to no good ~or~ was extremely proud of something.
But before anyone could ask him why, Rolith quickly pulled aside Cysero and Korin, asking for their help to build some assets for his overnight game. Cysero whipped up the 8-bit artwork for the spaceships and Korin was on 3D mesh duty.
“Have you told Artix about your game, Rolith?” Cysero asked.
“Um, No...” whispered Rolith, “Don’t tell Artix about Velocity yet. I think it would be so funny if this 24-hour game got more installs and plays than AQ Dragons-- which, took Artix 6 months to make.”
Korin smirked. “So it’s a secret, ay?”
So yes, Rolith kept Velocity a secret from Artix (AND ME TOO, GRRR!!) until the game was completely polished and ready for app store submission. This is not the first time Rolith made a secret game project-- does anyone remember Pony vs Pony?
Finally Rolith approached Artix and said, “I know you got a ton of games coming out this Summer, but what would you say if I had one ready to go…. right now?” A skeptically-curious Artix was given Rolith’s iPhone and he started playing. He died 3 seconds later. “Hard. Retro. ...and SUPER HARD!” exclaimed Artix as he spent the next 17 minutes replaying the game over and over again, trying to beat his high score. He didn’t last longer than 10 seconds. “I love this! How long until we can release it for the players”
Rolith smirked.
Artix went o_O, leaned in and asked, “Did you, uh… already submit it?”
Rolith was taken aback. “Should I have waited?”
“No, no…. this is great!” Artix reaffirmed. “At least you did not use your spare time to making another game about Ponies! Let it go live secretly, we can make fixes and then tell the whole world about this!"
“Wow, what an awesome story!
I wanna play that game too!!”
I bet you do. And you’re in luck, because VelocityAE is up on the iTunes App Store and Google Play right now. Please show Rolith and his hard work some love by giving VelocityAE 5-stars and help us spread the word.
June 09, 2015
BioBeasts Breach Battleon!
Unlock exclusive BioBeasts Armor Sets in AQWorlds
Are you as excited about BioBeasts as we are?!? The creative minds behind EpicDuel are proud to announce BioBeasts, a free single-player arcade-survival game coming soon to iOS and Android. Your mission: escape, mutate, DESTROY!
Play as a mutating monster fighting its way through a robot-controlled laboratory. But you’re not just some ordinary monster… you’re a BioBeast, and as you grow stronger and more powerful, you evolve and mutate! Wicked.
Use simple tap controls to unleash devastating damage upon the onslaught of bad guys trying to capture you. It’s a fast-paced fun game that’s simple to pick up but hard to put down.
“We cannot wait for you to unleash the BioBeast within you(r phone)!” – the EpicDuel Team
Exclusive Items, aww yeah!
We know that you and all your friends are going to LOVE this game. And that’s why we need YOUR help telling everyone about BioBeasts!
This is kind of like a contest…except everyone will win prizes if we all team up and work together! All you need to do is Like the BioBeasts Facebook page, and the more Likes we get, the closer we will be at unlocking exclusive BioBeasts-themed Armors, Helms, Weapons, and more in AQWorlds.
Here's what you have to do:
- Like the BioBeasts Facebook Page
- Tell your friends to Like the BioBeasts FB Page
- New Items will unlock in-game at Battleon when each milestone is reached:
- Helms unlock at 7,000 Facebook Like
- Back Items unlock at 15,000 Facebook Likes
- Swords unlock at 25,000 Facebook Likes
- Armors unlock at 50,000 Facebook Likes
- BioBeasts Pet unlocks at 100,000 Facebook Likes!
The Electro BioBeast gear is free for ALL players. The Hazardous BioBeast gear is available for Legends. Every item is 0 ACs for free storage!
Click here to Like the BioBeasts Facebook page, and we will be one step closer at obtaining these exclusive BioBeasts-themed items for AQW!
Thanks so much for supporting BioBeasts, EpicDuel, AdventureQuest Worlds, and all your favorite Artix Entertainment games.
You’re the best!!
xoxo Beleen =D
BioBeasts Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BioBeasts
BioBeasts Homepage: http://biobeasts.artix.com/
BioBeasts Twitter: https://twitter.com/BioBeasts
EpicDuel Homepage: http://epicduel.artix.com/
June 04, 2015
Spoiler Alert: Chaos Queen Beleen
The first glimpse at this summer’s upcoming release
Okay okay okay, so Nulgath doesn’t know I’m about to do this… which is why this post will be super short… but look what he just sent me:
Chaos Beleen Concept
EEEEEEEE!!! Now, this is only a sketch, so Beleen’s final chaos form may look a bit different than that. But man oh man oh MAN I am LOVIN’ what Nulgath has worked up!
What are your thoughts? Share them on my Twitter!
xoxo Beleen =D
June 03, 2015
AQWeekly Newsletter: Releasing June 5
Have fun battling on all weekend long! Super big thanks for playing AdventureQuest Worlds with us, and thanks for supporting the game! *high-five Legends and AdventureCoin buyers*
Battle on!
Beleen, Alina, Artix, and the AQW Team
June 02, 2015
Ask Beleen Anything!
Now accepting all kinds of questions
Hiya! I know you’ve always wanted to know more about me. So here’s your chance to ask your question and get an answer*!
Ask me:
- Personal questions
- Questing questions
- Silly questions
- Artix-related questions
- Creepy questions (although you might not get a response)
- Funny questions
- Favorite color questions (HA! Just kidding!)
- Random/odd questions
- Any kind of question!**
Be sure to include your AQW Character Name when asking your question on the Facebook Post so I can give you proper credit (and a shout out!) when I answer your question on YouTube! (Maybe I could do the first video next week? Yeah?? Wheee!)
I look forward to hearing from you and answering your question!
xoxo Beleen =D
* I will not be able to answer everyone’s questions, but I’ll try my best =)
** I have the right to refuse any question that’s not appropriate. If you have to ask yourself “is this an all-ages appropriate thing I’m about to say?”, then you probably shouldn’t post it.
May 27, 2015
AQWeekly Newsletter: May 29 2015
Rise to new heights in Thunderfang Spire; claim rare Dragonsworn items
Score 50% more AdventureCoins during our limited-time Summer Sale! Bonus AdventureCoins offered with every AC bundle. Be sure to stock up, because this epic offer ends Sunday, May 31! Thank you for playing and supporting AQWorlds. And, as always...
Battle on!
Alina, Dage, and the AQW Team
AQ3D
BattleGems
BioBeasts
Dragons
Undead Assault