It’s April! Do you know what that means? It’s Spring Festival time AND new game time!
This month we have plenty of goodies to share. By now you should be able to purchase the very not-forbidden Forbidden Library Hoard Pack, KI Live brought back Sparck as the host to celebrate the Spring Update, and another excellent roundtable with our team was hosted by Genevieve Moongarden (thanks Genevieve!).
In Recent Wizard News:
APR 10: Forbidden Library Gauntlet released
APR 6: KingsIsle’s booth at Hill Country Comicon
APR 5: Spring Decorating Contest winners
APR 4: Community Roundtable with Genevieve
MAR 27: Spring Update Live
MAR 7: Wizard101 EU now on Steam
FEB 27: New KingsIsle merch store launched
FEB 8: Community Nightmare World’s First Event
JAN 31: Fishing Competition winners
JAN 9: Winter Wonderland Artwork Contest winners
Keep updated on the latest news for next month on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, including special announcements from community fansites! Read on for more fun happenings with the community and their Spiral activities.
That’s enough of the news beats, now let’s check out this Community Newsletter!
PORTAL OF PERIL SPRING UPDATE
Prepare to embark on a magical journey through Wizard101's Spring Game Update!
Dive into the enchanting new features awaiting eager Wizards, including the whimsical Pixie Post feature, a new way for you and your friends to communicate. Plus, harness the power of friendship with the Quest Friend Finder, making it easier than ever to join forces with fellow Wizards on your epic quests. In April, get a thrilling look at the Portal of Peril as seen on Test Realm, where daring adventurers will face untold dangers and epic challenges, old and new (first event coming April 23rd!).
Uncover countless other surprises as you explore through the Portal of Peril Update!
RAVENWOOD ACADEMY: A WIZARD101 STORY
KingsIsle is making a new game based on the Wizard101 story and coming to Steam!
Step into the role of an outcast student wizard attending Ravenwood Academy and prepare to discover the truth behind the school’s bizarre events. Create connections, investigate mysteries, and drop in for a spell in this storybook-style life sim where your choices matter.
As a transfer student from Dragonspyre, fitting in at Ravenwood Academy sure hasn’t been easy. Staying on top of your classes and homework would be hard enough without everything else going on. There’s been some strange happenings around campus lately and you can’t help but feel that trouble is brewing around you...
Thanks for tuning into KI Live! In this show, we chatted about Wizard101's just-released Spring Update, shared some teasers for Pirate101, had several special guests on the show to talk about it all, and answered some of your always excellent questions!
Missed the show? No worries! You can watch the recording on YouTube:
It's always a blast hanging out with the community, so let us know what you most like about KI Lives so we can continue to make them even more fun to watch.
Keep updated on the latest news for next month on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, including special announcements from community fansites! Read on for more fun happenings with the community and their Spiral activities.
EXTRA CREDITS NEW INVITE WAVE
Have you heard about Extra Credits, our community content creator program? The signup window for the third wave has ended with new participants being added to the program this month!
We’re also continuing monthly objectives with rewards given to participants that complete them. Even if you are not yet part of the program, while you won’t receive the rewards for completing an objective, we encourage all our content creators to participate anyway! All creations are public and shared by the rest of the community.
Not yet an Extra Credits content creator but would like to join? We’re always accepting applications for the next wave of invites!
Community member, Genevieve Moongarden, is back at hosting another amazing roundtable with the KingsIsle team! This time we had our Product and Marketing teams join the roundtable to talk all about, well, Product and Marketing! Find out what these two teams do by watching the show above.
Thanks, Genevieve, for hosting a fun livestream with us!
SPRING DECORATING CONTEST WINNERS
Spring is nearly over! We hosted a decorating contest over the last month and WOW a lot of Wizards make their homes into art pieces. With multiple categories over Wizard101 NA, Wizard101 EU, and Pirate101, we ended up giving out more than 800,000 Crowns worth of prizes!
A huge thank you to all the Wizards and Pirates that entered the contest. We had a wonderful time looking through all the submissions and learned a fair few decorating trick ourselves. You can look at the voting history on the Wizard101 Twitter feed. To see the list of winners, click this link:
Congrats to the winners of the 2023 Winter Wonderland Artwork Contest! See them all below and what they won! Thanks everyone for participating in this holiday event, it was a lot of fun seeing all your amazing creations!
Adam Roush is our Senior Concept Artist here at Kingsisle Entertainment. Sometimes Adam will create a series of concept art for a particular scene or character and post them on his social media. Here are a few concepts of his most recent pieces this month:
“Here's the Didgeri Dragon from Wallaru.” - Adam Roush
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“Here's one of my favorite load screens I painted for Wallaru. It was fun revisiting the heroes from Lemuria for this one ;-)” - Adam Roush
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“Here's Freddie Kroaker. Loved designing this scary toad.” - Adam Roush
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“Here's the Emu Riders from Wallaru. It was fun designing these, the juxtaposition of cute koalas running around on gritty Mad Max-style emus.” - Adam Roush
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHTS
Community art by: Swordroll
In this section we wanted to highlight some recent, entertaining art, videos, and more for the month! Starting soon, we'll also be including Extra Credits content creator featured entries. If you’d like to be featured in this section, start a new walkthrough, create a review on something new, or do something completely creative, let us know!
Featured: The Spiral Project and TheNastBlast recreate Wizard101 in Minecraft!
The Spiral Project:
"Telos has been a project we’ve thought about for awhile now. The start of the story of The Nothing. For Telos we wanted to go all-out so you’ll notice details and features that are complex in nature for both Wizard101 and Minecraft. We hope you like it as we work to Rebuild The Spiral!" - The Spiral Project Team
TheNastBlast:
Whenever you create something, use @Wizard101 to get our attention on your favorite social media channel or on Discord. For this month’s art spotlight, we are showcasing work from KyleFirehammer and Fairycloth!
“Thee KyleFirehammer--my Wiz101 char. Don't let the name and clothes confuse you he's 100% a balance wizard.” - @KyleFirehammer
“Tfw your gf challenges you to a tree climbing competition but she’s a fairy.”@fairycloth
We would love to see more screenshots and art from the community for next month’s newsletter. Do you have something amazing to share? Send it to us in an email to community@kingsisle.com! We’re always interested in showing off more fan art, gameplay guides, videos, and other content.
Thanks, Wizards!
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