| 10:35 pm | UPDATE #2: It keeps getting BETA and BETA! We just restarted the servers to apply all of the super-fixes and to increase everyone up to 30 bag spaces. Pizza has arrived here at the Lab -- it is going to be a late one! Tomorrow (Friday) we will be continuing the BETA release. Thank you for being a part of this special game launch event! |
| 9:52 pm | UPDATE #1 The BETA LAUNCH Continues! - Name Color!? Yup - Members get a special name color!
- More Bag Space - We are giving all players +10 more bag spaces. This will bring you to 30 total bag spaces.
- Zhoom is working on the bug that is preventing players from unlocking their 3rd character.
- Dumoose is working his moose-magic on map and item bugs,
- Alpha Shop - If you played in the Alpha, you can access the alpha shop at any time. However, players who do not have the Alpha Badge cannot access the shop nor get the items. (The same will be true of the Founder shop!) |
| 9:12 pm | BUG: All players are supposed to be able to login and play, however there is a message saying otherwise. Zhoom is fixing this ASAP FIXED! Also, the Alpha Items are now removed from the shops. |
| 8:45pm | HeroSmash Beta is LIVE! |
| 8:43pm | 6 HeroSmash Servers coming online now! Show us your stuff iPotatOS. |
| 8:38pm | Zhoom yells, "THE FILES ARE ROLLING!" |
| 8:30pm | The Whodunnit!
It was... Rolith!? (It is always the person you most "middle" suspect.) Why, you ask? Well, yesterday I thought it would be fun to find out what Rolith's bloodtype is. He is looking to eat more healthy, and knowing your blood type can help identify foods that are more beneficial to you. So I bought a blood-type kit and we prepared to do a little lab work at the lab! He was not happy about it.. well, specifically the part where we needed to get some of his Rolith-brand inner-body-fruit-punch. O+ for the record! He needs to stay away from that gluten. Of course... I thought it would be fun to "capture the spirit of the moment on video" .. you know... in case we ever want to have a documentary! Watching Rolith run around while we chase him saying "No no no.. this is perfectly safe! Really!"... priceless. So, he expressed his joy at the event by doing the most horrifying thing I have ever seen. He changed my cellphone wallpaper to a cartoon rainbow pony. All in all... seems fair. *Phone rings* AHHHHHHHHHH! |
| 8:15pm | Thank you so much for your awesome patience and support. We hope you all enjoy the launch of HeroSmash in just a few moments! Tomorrow we will be adding all of the NPCs, Shops, Powers, and Items that did not make it in tonight. Zhoom is removing the "staff-only" status on the all of the quests & maps. (All of the "surprise" last minute bugs are crazy... I have not seen this many since the movie Starship Troopers") |
| 8:00pm | It is times like this where I wish we had a video stream. Then, I could juggle or dance or battle the undead with chopsticks and keep you entertained while the team does their last minute fixes. (Can you call it last minute if it took an hour? .. think Heinz Ketchup. Good things come to those who wait!) But until that day... *dreams* I can tell you this -- I now know who "whodunnit." But before we get to that, you should know that the team is currently moving all of the files to stage. Assuming that the maps all acually link together *crosses fingers* Zhoom is ready to roll. Hang on just a few more minutes friends.... |
| 7:45pm | Rolith is almost done updating Alpha tester and Founder to your character pages. You can replace my character's name with yours to see your page. Use %20 for spaces if you have spaces in your name. |
| 7:30pm | |
| 7:23pm | While we do the final wait: The Mystery continues!
At 3:30pm today, Cysero changed 3 hard to find item descriptions in AQWorlds to clear the names of the innocent. The people who... are not responsible for changing my cellphone wallpaper to carton rainbow ponys. So far (and surprisingly) Beleen and Yergen have both been cleared. So it is down to Jemini and Rolith! Questions still remain... who is it.. and why? *dunn dunn dunnnnnn* |
| 7:15pm | Homepage being CRUSHED by continous refreshes
Embarrasingly, the dev team is having trouble connecting to the development server due to the amont of traffic generated by people checking the homepage. We are taking desperate action... the iPotatOS servers are being deployed. (As seen on HeroMart.com) |
| 6:58pm | FINAL STATUS CHECK!
* HeroSmash Upgrades are now available. If you already have a character & account from Alpha you upgrade whlie we want for the servers to come up!
* Member Zone & Cutscene have a game breaking bug (10 mins)
* The HALdriod shops are 98% done... they just need 10-15 minutes.
* Artix's Mother keeps sending messages asking why she cannot play yet. (This is getting serious!) |
| 6:50pm | The VIP Membership Link
To all of you who have multiple AdventureQuest Worlds accounts linked... you need to select ONE to be your Main account. This is because only one account from each game can be used for the VIP Membership. If you select an account with an active AQWorlds Membership... it should display "VIP Member" up near your name! |
| 6:40pm | 20 Minutes until Release!
Go, go, go, go! |
| 6:30pm | Release in 30 Minutes...
You guys are always so awesome in the crunch time of a major release. Thank you! Capt'n Rhubarb says the VIP Membership & SmashCoin stuff should be live in 15 minutes or less. Galanor, Yergen, Llussien, Jemini, Dumoose and the rest of the HeroSmash team are battling through the remaining game-crashing bugs. If we can get the game stable and duct-tape & superglue the little content bugs... then we can stay and fix the rest of the bugs through the night while you play. Wish us luck! |
| 6:00pm | We are battling a waterfall of strange new bugs... the sort of clever, evil bugs that wait silently in the dark until just before a major release. You can give the team some encouragement to by grabbing a HeroSmash Wallpaper. (Randor made them, Miko just uploaded them!) At least none of them are cartoon rainbow ponies! |
| 5:15pm | OK... I asked Yergen how things were going. He took out his Magic 8-Ball. It said, "Outlook not so good.". But on the bright side... if we actually released on time it might trigger some sort of world-ending catastrophic event. So the new Herosmash release time is now expected to be 7pm EST. Meanwhile... Cysero released a shop full of HeroSmash themed items to get everyone into the spirit of the upcoming release over at AQWorlds. Also, if you have a membership in AQW, stop by the portal at www.Artix.com and see if it says you have a VIP membership now. If you have more than one account AQW account... you will have to select your main account first. Hang on, we almost have the page where you select it ready for you! |
| 4:40pm | Whew! We found it.
Someone accidentally moved all the map files into the monsters folder. If I had a SmashCoin for every time this happened... needless to say we are doing some file-backups just in case! I am going to do my rounds and check in on everyone. I will report back with a status update 5:15pm! We are getting close! |
| 4:00pm | Moment of extreme panic....
With less than two hours on the clock...the entire folder of new maps & monsters on the development server suddenly went missing... |
| 3:20pm | Who-dunnit!?
With less than 3 hours before the release of HeroSmash... the mystery of who changed my cellphone wallpaper to a rainbow colored My Little Pony is left unanswered. (So far it is down to Beleen, Yergen, Rolith or Jemini) Thank you to everyone on Twitter who did your best to break Cysero who "knows something." He may not have given you a straight answer.. but apparently he did change the descriptions of these AQWorlds items to give clues on who it is.... good luck!
- Yokai Lute
- SkyGuard Armored Trooper
- Sand Spear Sickle (Low % Boss fight drop)
In unrelated news... now THIS is a tall hat. |
| 3:00pm | When Beta begins... in a few hours... you will notice at the bottom right you now have a button to open up a device called the HALdriod. This device will allow you to communicate instantly will your mentor and access quests no matter where you are. Yergen did a really good job on the interface! |
| 2:30pm | Tick.... Tock.... Tick.... Tock..... actually, now that I think of it, all of our clocks are digital. So we do not have the looming sound of a second hand eating away the moments before we are to go live tonight. Not sure if I mentioned this already, but Zhoom just ran the database update to give everyone who helped test in Alpha the badge (51,546 accounts). Congratulatios guys! Now, we are just waiting for Rolith & Miko to make it appear on your character pages. Galanor & the Dev team is fixing a sizable mountian of last minute bugs -- good luck guys! |
| 2:00pm | Cysero just walked into the War Room and said, " Artix... I know who changed your wallpaper. And I'm willing to talk. Provided the right offers....", as he slowly backed out of the room with his hands in his pockets. He sorta reminded me of L. Then again, I am probably just thinking that because he is wearing a T-shirt with the L logo on it. I need to help the Capt with the portal pages... can you guys... *nudge* * nudge* getting this valuable information from Cysero? |
| 1:51pm | We are testing the new intro zone. During the first quest you will have to make your first choice to determine wether your character is a hero or a villian. |
| 1:10pm | This is not " how you get a-head" (FIXED!) Meanwhile, we are setting up the new shops. You will have to do a good amount of exploring to find them all! |
| 1:00pm | With roughly 5 hours left on the clock... the pressure here at the lab is geting pretty intense. Especially since I still do not know for certain who changed my cellphone wallpaper to cartoon ponies. An important part of SuperHero-ing is using your detective skills to solve mysteries. I have narrowed it down to Yergen, Beleen, Rolith or Jemini. So the questions remain: who did it & why would they do such a terrible, terrible, evil thing? Every time I get a phone call I look at my phone and scream!
*Ring* *Ring*
Artix: AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Dumoose: Galanor, did you just call him again on purpose?
Galanor: *chuckles while putting down his phone.* |
| 12:50pm | Safiria just sent me an update on our VIP Membership issue, "You'll be happy to hear that Captain Rhubarb is awesome. I just tested flow for him. You can create a new master account & log into HS, create a new AQW account, upgrade the AQW account, link the AQW & Master account, it automatically marks your HS account as upgraded. Then it shows that you're VIP on the portal! Good stuff!" |
| 12:40pm | Less than 6 hours until the target launch time! No major problems yet...
Galanor: !
Yergen: !!
Jemini: !!! |
| 12:30pm | Rolith is working on your character pages! They are about 85% working. You can check out my character here: Martial Artix. Change the name Martial Artix to your hero's name to see your page. There will be a link in game once we go live.Please post your Heros on Twitter/FaceBook/etc so I can click on them and see them. If there are bugs let us know so Rolith can fix them. At the bottom of the page we will have badges, including Alpha Tester, Beta Tester, and, if you support us in the first 30 days of launch... FOUNDER. *Checks with Miko to see how the art for the badges is coming* |
| 12:17pm | Alpha Servers are officially offline! We will be working on the HeroSmash servers to get them ready for tonight's full Beta Launch release... we are still aiming at 6pm EST (Side note: Yes, Zhoom accidentally raised the server cap early. Second Side note: We still do not know who changed my cell phone to wallpaper to rainbow ponies....Who do you think did it?) Players are logging in to AdventureQuest Worlds to wait for the release. |
| 12:15pm | Tomorrow, the AE Team will be supporting the American Cancer Society by participating in the Relay for Life. Our entire team will be taking turns during the 18-hour walk-a-thon and manning a HeroMart.com booth where 100% of all sales will go directly to the cause. Many other local business and organizations will be there too. It is taking place at the Sunlake High School in Land O' Lakes, FL. If you are in the area, stop by and say hi! We hae already gotten some emails and messagesa from players and forum mods who are going to be there. Check out the official Relay for Life website for details. |
| 12:00pm | I am getting reports form players that the level cap has already been increased to 15. Can anyone confirm this? P.S. To all of you on the social networking sites who were betting on whether I would remember to change theam to a pm at noon... I do read your posts :-P |
| 11:52 am | If you have not already, be sure to check out all of Yergen's design notes posts with sneaky peek pictures. In an unrelated story... Whie I was away using the "little Paladin's room", SOMEONE here at the lab changed my cellphone wallpaper to a picture of My Little Ponies! |
| 11:45 am | The new HeroSmash skills are really interesting! there is one called Giant Smash that causes you to grow up to 4x your size (Higher level versions of the skill cause you to grow larger) and smash your opponent. There are also Mental powers that may seem weker.. but they are faster and can increase your chance to critically hit. (Think fast!) |
| 11:35 am | A super-powered /wave to all of my friends on Twitterand FaceBook. Agt_Grey just informed me that he is already showing as a VIP member when he logs on a the portal. According to Captain Rhubarb, everyone with only 1 AQWorld's Member Account linked should be working! (Shortly, the rest of us will have to choose our primary AQWorlds account) |
| 11:26 am | While the game is looking in good, Captain Rhubarb is buried up to his neck in complicated code for the VIP Member System . AQWorlds and HeroSmash work on completely different systems... so syncing the memberships is crazy! |
| 11:15 am | The game servers are looking good! Although, I am concerned because Galanor, Dumoose & Llussien are having what appears to be a very important meeting on game balancing. *checks sundial* A little more than 6 hours left... no problem at all! O_O |
| 11:13 am | OMG! Beleen just came into the lab! (It felt like an eternity since we last saw her... today was her last day of school!) |
| 11:00 am | We have a huge to-do list for HeroSmash today. I am checking in with the team members to see the progress and then I will report back to you! |
| 10:45 am | HeroSmash uses the Artix Entertainment, "One Login to Rule Them All". How can you tell? Good question! Two days ago we realized... that there was no way to tell! So we are adding our Dragon Logo in front of every login box that uses it.
You can use the same account to login and play EpicDuel, BladeHaven, and now HeroSmash! Manage and link up all of your accounts at the portal site: www.Artix.com |
| 10:20 am | Play-By-Play started! (Bad computer! Bad! *whispers* Artx's computer decided this morning was the perfect time to insall 20 minutes worth of updates.) |
| 9:00 am | Galanor, Yergen, Dumoose, Jemini, Dumoose, & Safiria... reporting for duty! |
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