Exciting news for European Wizard101 players was recently announced! Have a look at what Gameforge and KingsIsle revealed on February 15:
Dear Wizards,
We are pleased to announce that the European Wizard101 service will be moving to KingsIsle and gamigo. The transition will take place over the course of several months starting in the second quarter of 2022. Rest assured your adventures in the Spiral will be able to continue through the transition. Our team at KingsIsle is very thankful and excited to have the opportunity to serve our European Wizard101 players starting later this year!
It’s our goal to make this transition as seamless as possible. Please be assured that your game progress and Crowns balance will be maintained after the switch. No changes are being made at this time with game services and events carrying on as normal. Players should continue to contact Gameforge Support for their normal account needs until otherwise specified.
We will keep the community updated as we go through key steps in the transition process. Keep watch on this announcement and our social media channels in the coming months for further updates.
We are eager to welcome all European players to our KingsIsle community and can’t wait for you to experience new game updates with us!
See you in the Spiral,
Leah “Professor Falmea” Ruben
Game Director, KingsIsle
Recent Holiday Activities:
FEB 10: Friendship Festival Writing Contest Begins
FEB 13: New Rose Bouquet Weapon
FEB 15: KingsIsle to Acquire Wizard101 EU Servers
FEB 15: New Pigswick Academy Art Book
FEB 16: New Game Patch
FEB 17: Spellements Roundtable with Ferric
FEB 20: Love Your Pet Day
FEB 22: New Buddy Bot Pet
FEB 24: KI Live with New Developer Guests
MAR 1: Scroll of Fortune Spring Begins
MAR 2: New Knights’ Table item
MAR 2: Friendship Festival Writing Contest Winners Announced
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.
KI LIVE: NEW FRIENDS OF THE SPIRAL
Now that we're well into exploring what exciting new things we have in store for Wizards in 2022, activity is heating up across the Spiral in anticipation of the rest of this year! It's a friendly festive time, so we invited new KingsIsle team members on last month's KI Live to talk about their work.
We also had Mike Sears back to voiceover some of the Lemuria characters he did. Let us know if you want him on the show regularly, as he has even more voices to present!
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.
Secret Reader Bonus - The giveaway code was also changed up a bit with an exclusive Pirate101 code provided this time. 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 (KILIVESUPERBOOTS) for another 500 redemptions!
A great gameplay tip submitted to KI Live comes from AmberTime:
"I have a great gardening tip! Did you know that both regular and enchanted seeds can be planted in enchanted soil, but only enchanted seeds can be planted in enchanted. Now I only put down enchanted plots so I can plant anything!" - AmberTime
WRITING CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Congrats to the following 2022 Friendship Festival Writing Contest winners for their amazing stories! This was a new type of contest we ran and are glad to have seen some new community members participate.
Check out the selected stories below and all the rest on social media #MyWizard101Story!
Each winner receives a Hearts teleport effect and 10K Crowns. To redeem your prizes, please contact our Community team at community@kingsisle.com. Visit Pirate101’s newsletter to check out winners for their side of the contest.
Thanks all for participating in this new type of contest!
SPELLEMENTS ROUNDTABLE AND DEV DIARY
We've wanted to talk more about Spellements for a while now, and so have you! We got with community member Ferric who hosted a great Spellements Combat Roundtable Livestream with our team. We talked a ton about current Spellement development and revealed quite a bit of what we hope to tweak and add in the coming months!
If you ever wanted more insight into how decisions are made on event changes and how we incorporate player feedback, be sure to check out this livestream now on YouTube for a great discussion:
Also be sure to check out Artie’s dev diary about The Future of Spellements, and keep watch for more development roundtables hosted by the community!
SEASON 3 SCROLL OF FORTUNE PROGRESS
The Scroll of Fortune events are some of the most exciting recurring events in Wizard101. Every year starting in the fall, we release the first of four scrolls that include tons of fun rewards and other offers for achieving the required points for each reward. One of the top rewards is the seasonal painting segments!
For Season 3, see below for the fall and winter painting segments that were offered. Going on now, you can get the spring painting! Just check in-game for the Scroll of Fortune event window. Acquire all four segments each season to get a complete mural to hang proudly in your Wizard’s home!
Here are some of the other rewards you can unlock through the Spring Scroll of Fortune:
*NEW* Fairy-thee-well Emote
*NEW* Gear of the Wyrd
*NEW* Fae Away Teleport Effect
*NEW* Mushroom Town Housing Item
*NEW* Wings of Whimsy Mount
And so much more!
NEW CONCEPT ART FROM ADAM ROUSH
Sometimes Adam will create a series of concept art for a particular scene or character. Here’s a few concepts of the Old One as depicted with the character in Lemuria:
“For the Myth spell, the Old One becomes Mandar the Barbarian.” - Adam Roush
“For the Ice Spell, the Old One goes mad... for SCIENCE!” - Adam Roush
“The Old One was featured in a set of spells. This one was for the Balance school.” - Adam Roush
WHEN GRACE MET ALEX
By: Character Story by GMA Foley at Adventures of the Spiral
“Grace Stormsong went to register after helping Private Connelly in the Unicorn Way. As she was standing in line to talk to Mr. Lincoln, she bumped into the young wizard named Alex Thundersmith. He said, “Hey … oh you are new here too?” She shook her head, being shy, and asked, “What school did you join?”
“The storm school,” he answered. Grace thought, “They were in the same school, so maybe they could go through the introduction to the teachers at the same time!”
Gladrocker presented on his YouTube channel an excellent Beastmoon Mayhem getting started guide. Even if you are an experienced Beastmoon player, this guide is worth reviewing for tips and tricks about succeeding in this incredibly fun and competitive event.
Do you have a gameplay video to share? Let us know and it may make an appearance in a future newsletter!
DRAGONSPYRE RECREATED IN MINECRAFT
By: The Spiral Project
And here’s an amazing replica of Dragonspyre in Minecraft created by Austin Freay from The Spiral Project!
“I have spent about 63 hours constructing an entire zone from Wizard101 into Minecraft. The Grand Chasm is one of my absolute favorite zones in Dragonspyre, and Wizard101 as a whole. I hope you enjoy the video.
Thank you for creating such an astounding universe, and I look forward to building more zones in the future!” - Austin Frey
Do you have a gameplay video to share? Let us know and it may make an appearance in a future newsletter!
COMMUNITY BULLETIN
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!
The unaffiliated-with-KingsIsle “Community Newsletter” had a great selection of Wizard101 links this month from around the web. NOTE: Follow their Twitter page for more information. To subscribe to their newsletter, send a DM to their Twitter asking 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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