Good heavens, what a month it’s been! The new Heavenly Palace Bundle was introduced to rave reviews. The bundle includes a gorgeous Heavenly Palace home, a Majestic Crane mount, Tanuki pet, and other items to help you on your way through the Spiral.
The Heavenly Palace is so lovely, we’ve been saving your screenshots posted to social media for a community album. Decorate the house in your unique style and share some screenshots on social media using the hashtag #HeavenlyPalace!
We also released the new Krokotopia themed Doomsday Krok Hoard Pack and gauntlet that included new mounts, pets, gear sets, and javelin weapons. We even added in some exclusive Time Lime reagents that you can use to craft the gauntlet!
You may have also seen that we’re celebrating more earthly calendar events. We got into the cartoon drawing spirit with National Cartoonists Day, wrote to a Spiral friend or two on National Pen Pal Day, and of course called our mothers on Mother’s Day. We can’t wait to show you what we’ll be celebrating through the rest of this month and into summertime!
Making the rounds on social media, here’s what we’ve promoted recently:
MAY 5: National Cartoonists Day
MAY 5: New Beastmoon Hunt Map – Aquila Mines
MAY 10: Happy Mother’s Day!
MAY 11: New Doomsday Krok Hoard Pack & Gauntlet
MAY 12: New Rockin’ Pet Bundle
MAY 12: Spiral Showcase Begins
MAY 18: New Daisy Lumi Pet
MAY 19: Life Deckathalon
MAY 20: Plant-a-Palooza
MAY 26: New Tulip Lumi Pet
MAY 26: New Heavenly Palace Bundle
MAY 28: KI Live
JUN 1: National Pen Pal Day
JUN 1: Summer Scroll of Fortune begins
Keep updated daily 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.
DEV DIARY: NELSON EVERHART
Music is the true beating heart of the Spiral and makes all the magic come alive!
In this developer diary we invited Nelson Everhart, Musician and Composer, to the studio (official visit was in late 2019) to talk about the early days of developing music for Wizard101 and Pirate101.
Listen in as he has a unique tale to tell about how he contributed to the game's success.
KI LIVE WITH SPARCK & PROFESSOR FALMEA
We sent out a survey to the community last month asking everyone what you thought of KI Lives and how they can be improved. Your ideas are always worth considering and this time was no different. This is the first KI Live that implements some of those exciting ideas!
While the show will overall feel the same, here are some of the changes we made for this first update:
Shortened the introduction
Increased focus on developer guest appearances
Moved the giveaway code to mid-show and revealed the prizes right away
Spread questions out a bit with the most important answered upfront
Increased the amount of questions answered
Removed the community screenshot feature (this will now be its own social initiative)
Some thinning of gameplay segments, depending on the month
Secret Reader Bonus - As of this newsletter's announcement, for those who didn't get a chance to redeem the KI Live giveaway code yet, we opened it up again (ILOVEDRAGONS2020) for another 500 redemptions!
A great Wizard101 tip submitted to KI Live comes from community member LolCollin:
“Talk to Prospector Zeke when you enter a new world and obtain his scavenger quest. That way you can find what he’s looking for as you quest and obtain a training point by the end of it. TPs can help you learn useful spells that are outside of your class!” - LolCollin
“This just in wizard! The Professor has detected a distress signal in.. Krokotopia? That’s right! Introducing to the spiral - the next gauntlet housing item to Wizard101, the Doomsday Krok Gauntlet! Just what awaits you and the Professor? Well, let’s take a little sneak peek into the desert and just see what our Krok friends have been up to! A huge shout-out to the team over at KingsIsle for letting me dive into this ahead of time and give you guys an early look into this new gauntlet!” - MMORPG.com
HOUSING GUIDE - ADVANCED MOVE TOOL
One of our very own QA Tester, known by the community as TheArtOfWarlord, took some of her own time to show you how to use the Advance Move housing tool! Check it out:
MORE CONCEPT ART FROM ADAM ROUSH
Adam has been busy recently creating even more cool new concept art! He worked especially hard on this design of the card art for the new Heavenly Palace Bundle:
“Nice surprise to wake up to see that the Heavenly Palace Bundle dropped, so here's the card art I did for it.” - Adam Roush
“Baby Pandas! Check out Test Realm to see the new features, including play as your pet, where you can roam the Spiral as these two.” - Adam Roush
“Who says bugs can't be cute? This is the scarab pet in the Doomsday Krok hoard pack.” - Adam Roush
“Khrysalis fish designs. My favorite is the Dragonfry, deep fried and lemon wedges and fries for fins, lol.” - Adam Roush
“Here's the Fenris pet, which is a mythical feathered wolf, part of the Grizzleheim Lore Pack.” - Adam Roush
New Wallpaper!
And here’s a wallpaper theme from the new Doomsday Krok Gauntlet!
“4K Wallpaper of the Doomsday Krok Gauntlet load screen. Easily my favorite illustration to do this year so far. It was pretty difficult, but I love the result!”
JOIN THE DEVS @WIZARD101DEVS TWITTER
A reminder to join the developers @Wizard101Devs Twitter! We created a new page specifically for our team to chat in a slightly more casual atmosphere than the more formal @Wizard101 page, but not as informal as the team has been chatting with you on their own personal channels.
If you want to know where the team is at and what they are talking about, @Wizard101Devs is the best and most direct place to hang out with us on a regular basis!
Direct from the community, the Sixth Annual @FansiteFest for both Wizard101 and Pirate101 will be taking place Saturday, 6th June and Sunday, 7th June! Legends of the Spiral is one of the fansites getting in on the fun. Stay tuned for more announcements on hosts and events on their website, fansitefestival.com!
COMMUNITY VIDEO SPOTLIGHT
Genevieve Moongarden continues her tour of Wizard101 places to live in Episode 3 of Housing Tours! In this video featured houses are from Esmee Rose, Angela Shadowwhisper, Emily Night, Iridian Willowcloud, and Dylan Greengem:
FAN SCREENSHOT SPOTLIGHT
These screenshots are from Blake BattleBlade and his friend, Corey FireLeaf, celebrating their newly acquired Heavenly Palace. We hope a housewarming party is being planned!
FAN ART SPOTLIGHT
For this month’s fan art spotlight, we are showcasing a group drawing of Evan Moon and his many Spiral friends:
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@Wizard101.com! We’re always interested in showing off more fan art, gameplay guides, videos, and other content.
Thanks, Wizards!
COMMUNITY NEWS
Community art by: Swordroll
Keep updated on what’s happening in the community right here in our Community News section! For every newsletter, we receive direct from the community links to new gameplay guides, exciting upcoming contests, and much more. Thanks to the following fansites and other community leaders for their contributions this month!
Kyle IceWielder gets excited about the new bundle in a new YouTube video.
Potato Wizard showcases the new bundle in a YouTube video.
Swordroll outlines in a video of what’s in the new bundle.
The unaffiliated-with-KingsIsle “Community Newsletter” had a great selection of Wizard101 links this month. NOTE: Be sure to follow their Twitter page for more information. To subscribe to their newsletter, send a message to them over Twitter inquiring to be added or email them at community.newsletter.101@gmail.com. You can unsubscribe at any time by sending them an email with the phrase “UNSUB”.
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