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Beleen
New Game Releases in your favorite Artix Games! posted by Beleen on

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AdventureQuest Worlds

  • Chaos erupts on the Battlefield
    • Led by the Champion of Chaos Drakath
    • New Chaos War Rare Items
    • Can you defeat the Chaos Warrior?
  • Quibble’s Rare Items
    • 40+ items—WOW!
    • Magus Armor Set
    • Shadowmage Assassin Set
    • Spellsword of Light Set
      • Normal, Glorified, and Chaotic versions
  • Featured Artist Showcase Shop
    • Ven du Violetmist in the limelight!
    • Knight of the Leviasea Armor Set—Rare!
    • Bedhead Hairstyles and Gasmasks
    • 3 Weapons + 3 Capes
  • Guild Halls Phase II begins
    • Decorate the inside of your Guild Hall
    • Add Paths with additional Land
    • Place Buildings and interior decorate
    • Exclusive items: Guild Trophy, Throne of Awe, and more
    • One of the best perks of being a Legend!

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EpicDuel

  • Bring on the heavy artillery!
    • Capture & Upgrade turrets
    • Unleash a volley of pain
    • Upgrade your War Objects by fighting harder
  • Celebrate Titan’s Birthday
    • Travel to Frysteland
    • Collect Birthday Rares
      • Limited Quantity Bike
      • Mutating Weapon Set
      • Titan’s Triumph Sword
      • Titan Core
    • Demi-Gods know how to party!

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OverSoul

  • The Earth Card Series Deck
    • Tree of Life - Converts up to 800 Shields into Life
    • Earthquake - Deal 1200 Damage over 6 Turns
    • ???
  • 3 New Spell Animation Effects for
    • Tree of Life
    • Earthquake
    • ???
  • 2 New Characters
    • Master Rank up of Ogre Maiden: Varett
    • Found in the caves and Rocky areas: Earth Elemental

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DragonFable

  • New Ravenloss Quests
  • A few new NPCs to help "teleport" you to relevant quest NPCs
  • Direct link to DF Facebook page (opens in new window) in the Book of Lore

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HeroSmash

  • Redesigned a smaller 'back' icon
  • Smashdome to be SMASH-DOWN!
    • Plans to redesign Smashdome to make it BIGGER!
    • Teleporters to Good/Evil extreme boss arenas
  • Member only MEGA Boss arena in Space?
  • Possible changes to Battle Polls and Monthly system being reviewed
  • Movie Plex will undergo changes
    • Soon Blockbuster Event will be Cosplay Shop
    • Popcorn and Popcorn Merge Shop will go RARE!
  • Market Street Ice Cream Truck is planned to be a shop

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AdventureQuest

  • War in Paxia!
    • Defeat Xov and her henchman
    • Defend the lands of Paxia
    • Rescue each clan leader
  • 8 new Weapons
  • 2 new Monsters
  • 1 new Quest
  • Special: August Token Package
    • Paramount Edge and Shield
    • Select between Water of Wind Elemental damage
    • Bonus status effects applied to Weapon
    • Unlocks with 12,000 Z-Token Package

Battle ON!


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Make a Birthday Wish Come True posted by Beleen on

Help AQWorlds reach 1 Million Likes by October 11!

Your favorite online adventure game is turning 5 Years Old on October 11th, 2013!

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Yeah, I know October is pretty far away, but the entire AdventureQuest Worlds team has a pretty big birthday wish: to reach 1,000,000 Facebook Likes before our birthday celebration.

And with YOUR help, you can make AQWorlds' 5th Birthday Party the best one yet!

How You Can Help

Gather everyone you know—your friends, family, & followers—and tell them to Like the AdventureQuest Worlds Facebook page to help us reach 1 Million Likes by October 11, 2013.

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This would be the best Birthday Present ever! Woohoo!

Birthday Presents for All

The best gifts are the ones that everyone can enjoy =D And who doesn’t enjoy Star Swords?! Whispers amongst the AQW team hint at NEW Star Swords… but what will the colors be? Hmmm

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Tell us what colored Star Swords you want to see on our Facebook (and don’t forget to Like us, too)!

Did you used to own a Star Sword but misplaced it indefinitely? No worries, my loves! Due to popular demand, if you've lost an Upholder Star Sword you had access to, you'll be able to get it again during our Birthday Event.  

And if we DO reach 1,000,000 Likes by the AQWorlds Birthday, what other presents would YOU like to unwrap? We’ve got lots of time to plan, so lend us your ideas and let’s see if we can turn them into reality!

Stretch Goals

With you on our side, we’re pretty confident that we can reach 1,000,000 Likes by October 11th, 2013. What happens if—nay, when!—we reach 1,000,001 Likes… and beyond?

You tell us! You and your buddies always come up with the BEST ideas, so let us know on our Facebook Page what presents we should deliver for surpassing 1,000,000 Likes. You guys and gals help us—and we’ll reward you handsomely =D

Like the AdventureQuest Worlds Facebook page

Tell us what Birthday Presents you want to unwrap

Invite your friends to play AQWorlds with us

And Battle On towards victory

xoxo Beleen


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Play Our Brand New Game Releases! posted by Beleen on

Summer is quickly coming to an end… but your online fantasy adventures have only just begun! Check out this week’s all new releases in you favorite Artix Entertainment games.  


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AdventureQuest Worlds

  • Brand new Archfiend Class
    • Nulgath approved
    • Super powerful Class
    • Legends can become an Archfiend for free in exchange for Fiend Tokens
  • Wizard University
    • Explore DragonRune Hall
    • Sora to Hoshi the HeadMistress
    • Mueran the Necromancer Professor
    • Maedoc the Druid Magic Professor
    • Warlic the Elemental Mastery Professor
    • Neveya the Craft Magic Professor
  • J6 Featured Artist Shop
    • Chess themed items
    • Play Enchanted Chess at Wizard U
  • GameStop exclusive promo 

Core revamp for EpicDuel

EpicDuel

  • New Legion hairstyles
  • New Exile hairstyles
  • Slashed lag for better duels
  • Revamping Core System
    • Work in progress!
    • Easier to Try and Equip Cores

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HeroSmash

  • New 'Grimtooth' Armor set in Daily Shop (aka Lost n Found)
    • Full body armor and helm (head morph)
  • Movie plex items
    • Trade in your monster drops for new Rare items
  • MEGA Arena Dome
    • New members area in development
    • Face Titan sized monsters

AdventureQuest Knights

AdventureQuest

  • Knight Class III
    • Test your skills through General Herous’ trials
    • Become the ‘Emoran Knight elite
  • Master your Lance attacks
    • Ride upon the bird Koodus
  • Learn powerful abilities
    • Spiritual Reinforcement
    • Dark Pact
    • And more!
  • Paramount Edge and Shield
    • 12,000 Z-Token Package offer
    • Select Element: Wind or Water damage
    • Bonus status effects using the Shield 

Cysero

DragonFable

  • Cysero’s apprentice quest
  • New monsters from Cronix
  • Explosions
  • More fish
  • Implosions
  • Catch up with NPCs you haven’t seen in awhile

Battle on!


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Contest Winners! posted by Artix on
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"Bad Guys and Good Battles Contest"

Congratulations to everyone who entered our latest contest! You have officially become a part of AQWorlds and DragonFable history. Over 800 players created art and stories for the contest. Picking winners from so many great entries was challenging for our panel of judges. After the smoke and fist fights cleared... we have a winners circle of 31 entries, and one HUGE surprise! What surprise? We had been planning this from the start. If your entry was not selected for the winners circle but met our rules and quality requirements, then your entry being added to AQWorld's Lorepedia webpages forever! To recognize your contribution (and so you can show it off to your friends), you are being awarded with a special LoreMaster Artist or LoreMaster Writer acheivement on your character page!!!

About this Contest

Players were challenged to "go into the wild" and report their observations on our worlds monsters. See the original post with entries for the Bad Guys and Good Battles Contest

 

Winners Circle!

NAME

MONSTER

GAME

CATEGORY

SCORE

EXTRA/NOTES

..TRizZzCENTRINO.. Vordred AQWorlds Art 5 3
Arttle Dwain Jonsen AQWorlds Art 5  
Daracas Lurker AQWorlds Writing 5  
Descending Doomkitten AQWorlds Art 5  
Dyan-Syrius Ultra-Chaos Vordred AQWorlds Art 5 2
Jkoy Bloodfiend AQWorlds Art 5  
Juan Kunai Sepulchure AQWorlds Art 5 1
Therril Oreb Skeleton DragonFable Writing 5  
Animix Kezeroth AQWorlds Both 2.8  
Epicness101 Skeletal Soldier AQWorlds Writing 2.9 LOL Award
Aronshadowblade Stalagbite AQWorlds Writing 3.1 Accent-uated Entry
FelipeMasterX Blue Dragon AQWorlds Both 3.6  
Warriortupai Princess Tara AQWorlds Art 3.6  
Amikazi Seed Spitter AQWorlds Both 3.9  
LeofireKingdom Chair AQWorlds Writing 3.9  
BecktheBeetle Ice Beetle Oversoul Both 4.1  
Gladestone Nerfkitten AdventureQuest Both 4.1  
Qball Red Dragon AQWorlds Both 4.2  
Werepyre wolf Legion Fenrir AQWorlds Both 4.2  
Blood-Predator Gressil AQWorlds Art 4.3  
Lupus the Wolf Golden Cabit DragonFable Both 4.3  
Ryumin Exos AQWorlds Art 4.3  
Dovah'kin Sneevil AQWorlds Writing 4.4 "Sweep the Leg" Weakness Targeter
Dralir Sweetish Fish AQWorlds Art 4.4  
Ergotth Elementals DragonFable Both 4.5  
Slayer_H Sneevil AQWorlds Writing 4.5 Loremaster's Gold Star
Karpousi Wisteria AQWorlds Both 4.6  
Nightbanewolf Slime AQWorlds Both 4.6  
Lovebox Mama Chubs HeroSmash Art 4.3  
NitRamier Master Twang MechQuest Both 4.2  
Mcbshadow Dwakel Warrior AQWorlds Writing 4.7 Seal of Thoroughness +15
Jack in Box Binky AQWorlds Writing 4.8  
RainbowDash River Fishman AQWorlds Writing 4.8  
SolHerald Corrupted Captain Davey DragonFable Art 4.8  

 

Not listed? You may still be selected for the Lorepedia!

Entries from this contest that meet the guidelines and quality will be added to the AQWorlds Lorepedia forever. So if you entry did not make the winners circle, you may still get your entry on the AQ.com website! Also, you will get an achievement badge on your character page: "LoreMaster Art" or "LoreMaster Writing" to prove it.

PRIZES will be delivered Monday!

Prizes including 1,000 ArtixPoints for those listed in the Winner's Circle and Achievement Badges for everyone who gets their entry on the Lorepedia will be added to your account early next week!

Thank you!

Once again, I would like to thank everyone who participated in this contest. We hope you had fun! Keep drawing and writing... and get ready for the next contest which is coming soon.

 

Selection of Artwork from the Winner's Circle

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Master Twang MechQuest
 
Mama Chubs Herosmash
 
 

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Play New Game Releases! posted by Beleen on

The best online adventure games have just been updated with brand-new storylines, monsters, quests, items, and more! Check out all the fun in store (well, technically, in game) in your favorite Artix Entertainment games.


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MetroCon 2013

Want to meet the Artix team in real life? Now you can!


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AdventureQuest Worlds

  • Solrac’s Featured Artist Showcase Shop
    • RARE Solrac V2 Armor Set, Devoid Armor Set, and more
  • The Final Judgment in the Dage/Scorn Saga
    • New quests, cutscenes, monsters, items, merge shop
  • 3 Judges of the Underworld
    • Rhadamanthys
    • Minos
    • Aeacus
  • Rare Dage items
  • Nulgath Rare items
  • New quests & gear added to Tercessuinotlim
  • MechQuest Finale Shop & quests
  • Brand new: Spellscribing Trade Skill
    • Learn how at the Wizard University

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MechQuest

The end of the universe is here!

  • 2 epic new quests
  • Special Mecha designed specifically for the finale
  • And more!

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OverSoul

  • 4 New Characters!
    • Hex Void, Abyssal Priest, Engineer, Volt Engineer
  • The Lighting Card Series Deck! 4 New Cards:
    • Chain Lightning - Cast 3 Lighting Bolts Dealing 500 Damage Each (The first spell to hit multiple times in ONE turn! )
    • Super Charged - All Attack cards gain +500 Damage
    • Electric Arc - Deals 200 damage per turn for 6 turns
    • Tazer - Deals 500 Piercing Damage
  • 3 New Spell Animation Effects For:
    • Chain Lightning & Electric Arc

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EpicDuel

  • Juggernauts can participate in The Dread War
  • Earn influence for you & your faction
  • Alignment matching
  • Evolving Objective Capture achievements
  • Improved visibility of the Juggernaut feature
  • More dynamic war screens to allow the controlling alignment to show off

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HeroSmash

  • One more week until Freedom Day items are gone for the year!
    • Color Custom version of the Sergeant States armor adding to shop
    • Color Custom version of guns too!
  • Removal of seasonal shops from maps
  • New more 'Supery' outfit been designed
  • In process of getting colors added will be added in upcoming weeks
  • New Mega Arena in development
  • Face-off against titan size monsters!

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AdventureQuest

  • Myth of the mightiest dragon Trigoras
  • Art + animation update for Trigoras
  • New rewards
  • Eukara’s lesson on Cooperation
  • Golden Giftboxes reveal Rare loot!
    • Black Wartexx
    • Moonray/Sunray combo pet
    • Weapons of Awe upgrades
    • And more!

 


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DragonFable

Journey with Tomix to the hidden SoulWeaver School, Edelia, to seek aid from the Headmaster with building your Void Ship!

 

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MechQuest Finale this Friday! posted by Artix on
We are all waiting anxiously for the "biggest HIT in the universe."
 
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MechQuest's Epic Finale Part 4/4 to be released!

For 4.5+ years, Mecha pilots have been waiting for the answer to one question: "How does the sci-fi, giant robot game of MechQuest take place thousands of years BEFORE the fantasy sword and scorcery game of DragonFable?" The only way to find out is to play MechQuest's unbelievable final storyline release this Friday!
 

A story 5 years in the making...

The behind the scenes info is always my favorite part of the design notes. I like to share honest and bizzare stories with you. MechQuest... has a lot of these stories. It is one of my favorite games of all time. I love giant robots. Well, any type of robots and mecha. As a young boy I dreamed of piloting a giant war machine against an unstoppable army of alien invaders. To be the last hope for humanity... *thinks* ... actually.. I just wanted to fire super huge lasers and crazy missles making things go EXPLODERGHEDDONBOOM! I feel that the end of MechQuest will make anyone who is like minded happy.
 
DragonFable was super popular when we started tossing around the idea for MechQuest. If you were not with us in the "old days" you might not know that DragonFable was a pre-quel to our original hit game, AdventureQuest. yup, DragonFable takes place 5 years before AdventureQuest. We thought it would be ABSOLUTELY HALLARIOUS to have MechQuest take place 5,000 years earlier.
 
So the time of our games goes like this....
 
  1. MechQuest - Giant Robots Futuristic Universe (now)
  2. DragonFable - Fantasy w/ Dragons and Swords (4,995 years later)
  3. AdventureQuest- Fantasy w/ Dragons and Swords (5 years later)
  4. AQWorlds - Fantasy w/ Dragons and Swords (Um.... long story.)

We came up with a reason why.

Actually, we came up with the reason why FIRST.

When writing a story you only need to know one thing: The End. We dropped some jaws during the end of DragonFable nearly two years ago. A very small handful of players figured out what was happening, but the masses were blown away by the twist. The team felt really good. A lot of players asked with surprise, "Did you guys really have this planned the whole time?"

There is a lot of pretty challenging content to get through in order to reach the end of MechQuest. The team and I decided that anyone who upgrades to Star Captain can immediatley access the 4-part finale if they choose to. We did this because... well, we WANT super fans of the game to actually experience the end of the game. The entire main stoyline, as promised is free, and any player can play all the way through to the end of the game.
 
The main villain of the MechQuest is Lord Valoth. He gets less screen time than any other villain in the history of our games. This is due to the fact that he is on the Shadowscythe command ship with the elite forces. He has conquered countless Galaxys and other planes of existance. In MechQuest, the Shadowscythe are still darkness creatures... but they are a lot more like the borg crossed with aliens. They assimilate what they destory. Which is why most Shadowscythe mecha, ships, and troops look similiar to other civilizations we encountered during our travels. Well, there are shadowscythe that look like things we have never seen elsewhere. It is assumed those entire races of beings were destoryed and assimilated.
 
When an enemy this powerful does not just instakill your world, it probably means they are after something else. In the finale, we will see why our world is so important.
 
Attention all Mecha Pilots. This is not a drill. Proceed to your battle mecha immediately and prepare for combat. Tomorrow... your actions will determine the fate of humanity.
 

 
P.S. Join us at the MetroCon convention in Tampa, FL, on Saturday at 11am to talk about the end of MechQuest.

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Great balls of fire! posted by Artix on
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Getting fired up about Battle Gems?

While Yergen has been coloring and animating monsters like the Fire Elemental, I have been working on a monster and zone list. Our first mobile game will be 256 levels long. (Possibly even longer if everyone loves it as much as we do.) There is no strict rule on how many levels an area will be... but 16 seems like the magic number. The first zone, the tutorial zone, starts in you in a fantasy forest. It is tempting to throw giant hulking monsters at you for your fist few matches. I mean, who wants to fight level 1 rats? The newly redesigned forgzards look really dragon-like & epic... so I am leaning towards a Frogzard being your first fight. It is also a little nostalgic for AQ players. I always feel the first few battles of a game are the most important. Our goal this week (again) is to create the first area and work out the remaining bugs. Then, I would like to find my sense of humor. I lost it a few posts again... if you see my sense of cheesy, self depricating humor, please put it in the lost in found bin.

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Metrocon 2013! posted by Artix on

Meet the AE Team at our panel

Want to meet the team and talk about video games? The Metrocon Convention in taking place this weekend at the convention center in Tampa, FL. The Artix Entertainment team & I will be running a panel on Saturday. They gave us a 2-hour time slot. Hahaha, boy are they going to be sorry. Maybe we can have the staff fight to the death for your amusement. Or maybe we will make a game. Or maybe we can... hmmm, we will think of something. We hope you will come join us!

Artix Entertainment Panel at Metrocon this weekend

If you are going, please send me a tweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!


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BattleGems progress #1 posted by Artix on
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Coming soon to "EyeTunes"

It is a big week for game development this week. A lot of people are asking, "When is your new mobile game, Battle Gems, going to be released!?" The answer, of course, is "When it is ready!" We are trying to release a complete, polished game. Which means monsters... lots... and lots... of monsters. We were hoping to focus on gameplay this week, but we are plowing through a mountain of bugs as our coders combine all their parts (character creation, facebook integration, map, combat and shops) into once piece. Check back tomorrow for another monster sneak peak!
 
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