Happy 13th birthday Wizard101! So many magical adventures have occurred in the community over the years. What are your favorite moments? Share with us a story or screenshot of your recent adventures using the hashtag #Wizard101Birthday. We’ll be celebrating the game’s birthday with you from September 2-8th with all sorts of great promotions, including setting Wizard City and Krokotopia to free access for a limited time.
The fun doesn’t stop there though, as something fishy is going on in the Spiral that needs luring! To cap off the birthday celebrations, get ready for the greatest fishing tournament to occur this side of the Spiral! What you need to do is simple. Through September 10-12th weekend, we’re offering some big prizes for the best anglers of certain types of fish. Catch the most Rare, the most Epic, types like Dekoi and Jellyfish, and many other mysterious Spiral fish.
Be sure to explore the entire newsletter to check out several community run events happening throughout the month! Before diving deeper into the newsletter, a quick review of recent announcements:
AUG 12: Social Roundtable chat with WhiteTiger93
AUG 23: Malorian Dragon Mount winners announced
AUG 23: Abracadoodle is back with #207
AUG 24: New Chitin Crawler Mount
AUG 24: Pet Promenade Event begins
AUG 26: KI Live
AUG 26: National Dog Day and blog post
AUG 30: Fall Scroll of Fortune begins
SEP 2: Happy 13th birthday Wizard101
SEP 10-12: Birthday Fishing Tournament
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: WIZARD101’S 13TH BIRTHDAY
Happy 13th birthday Wizard101! We celebrated in-game with an army of 1-day party balloon mounts and in chat with all of you who attended the show. Special guest, TheArtOfWarlord - KingsIsle QA Tester, was on to talk about her work in QA! Throughout the show we also answered your questions, gave away in-game items (see below!), and much more.
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 - 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 (KILIVEPACKPARTY2021) for another 500 redemptions!
A great gameplay tip submitted to KI Live comes from Jared SpellFrost:
"Want to spice up your outfit? Try farming Skeleton Key bosses such as King Borr, Aethyr Elemental, The Spirit of Ignorance, and Corporal Tenni'syn for unique school stitch gear!" - Jared SpellFrost
USING THE REPORTING SYSTEM
There are several ways to contact our team when a community concern needs to be addressed. Whether that concern originates from in-game to somewhere on our social channels, we are working every day to ensure your safety in the Spiral.
Here is an important message from Professor Falmea on player safety and how to best make use of the reporting system to help us out. Please read it carefully and in full!
“First, know that our Customer Support and Community teams keep watch of any concerns that appear both in the game and elsewhere in the community. All reports are reviewed to determine an appropriate action. We are as vigilant as possible in preventing player abuse and related concerns, but we still need the community’s help to ensure all concerns are seen and reported properly.” - Leah Ruben, Game Director
Every dog has its day! Back for a second time, we wanted to share KingsIsle’s fluffiest (and underappreciated) employees for National Dog Day. Trust us, you’re in for a treat!
“Shadow is an 8 year old German Shepherd/Akita mix. Don’t let her floppy ear fool you, she’ll hear you coming a mile away and come running for pets!
Rev is a 9 year old Havanese mix that thinks he’s more human than dog. He’s not the biggest fan of other animals, but you couldn’t ask for a better snuggle buddy!” – Kimberly
Community member WhiteTiger93 hosted a great Social and Community Roundtable Livestream during last month’s Test Realm with our team. We talked a ton about current social systems and revealed quite a bit of what we hope to 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:
COMMUNITY LEMURIA SKETCHES
Coloring Book Day was this past August 2 and we celebrated by releasing this open sketch of the Lemuria Mural. What interesting patterns and outlines it presents. What does the mural represent? Why is it now in the Spiral after all these years? What is Lemuria and what are those funny little creatures?
So, what did you all do with the mural to unlock its mysteries? Color it in of course!
Here’s a colorful sampling of what was posted on social media using the hashtag #W101Lemuria. We also showcased many of these creative entries in the opening scenes of August’s KI Live:
By: Exp613
By: Necro SpellBinder
By: Krille
By: Mean Mocha Latte
By: Nate River
By: John DragoBlood
Speaking of murals, congrats to @TheCraft_Box for completing Scroll of Fortune Season 2’s mural set!
“I created a non-official commercial for the video game of my childhood: Wizard 101. The purpose was to train myself to the different disciplines of 3D Animation Cinema, and to achieve a pleasing Ray tracing look in an animation taking place in the MMORPG universe of Wizard 101.” - William
GUIDE OF THE MONTH
Advanced Castle Magic Part 2: Player – Activated Animations
Check out this great house decorating guide from Arcanum's Archives! In Part 2 of the series, Maddie the Decorator focuses on player-activated animations:
“Animations are one of my favorite aspects of castle magic. By using this skill, you can make your wizard’s castle 'come alive’. The Wizard101 decorating community does a wonderful job of illustrating creative animations. Some examples that come to mind include moving UFOs, rising underwater palaces, and even entire theatre plays! By learning how to program an animation using castle magic, your wizard’s castle will captivate tourists.” - Arcanum's Archives
For more guides be sure to visit the official Community Guides page!
GAMEPLAY VIDEO OF THE MONTH
Ferricord presents a playthrough of his tips for conquering the Balance Deckathalon!
COMMUNITY ART SPOTLIGHT
By: @SparkleFountain
For this month’s spotlight, we present @SparkleFountain’s Wizard, Julia SparkleFountain!
“I experimented a lot in this piece! Julia SparkleFountain has always been my main character in the Wizard101 game, she has always been a part of my life and she represents everything I love! I love ice magic, I love her Asian rice hat from Mooshu and my love of PvP from her commander robe!” - (@SparkleFountain)
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!
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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