August 2024’s Wizard101 newsletter is upon us! We cover the latest KingsIsle and Community news in a one-size-fits-all digest. These newsletters are produced every quarter or so throughout the year, so we cover a plethora of exciting announcements from the last few months all the way to today... and sometimes we’ll even tease a few goodies for the coming month!
With summer coming to a close, what we've all been waiting for is just around the corner - Wizard101's 16th birthday celebration! As another enchanting game year ends, the Spiral gears up to commemorate this special occasion from the development team through the entire community in true wizarding style with announcement surprises, community-wide festivities, and captivating new items to use in-game.
Speaking of exciting new things... be sure to also keep watch on KingsIsle’s social media pages during Labor Day Weekend and beyond!
Now let’s check out this latest Community Newsletter!
In Recent Wizard News:
AUG 13: New Dappled Mustang Mount
AUG 6: New Shadow Demon Pegasus Mount (CSC 2023)
AUG 1: New Illustrious Attire
JUL 30: New Dyvim Plushie
JUL 30: Happy International Friendship Day
JUL 23: First Portal of Peril Fantastic Voyage Gauntlet Event
JUL 20: Great Austin Comic Con Weekend
JUL 12: KingsIsle Merch Store Update
JUL 5: New Snugly Duckling Pet
MAY 29: Wizard101 Now on Chromebook
MAY 1: Stack Up Rex Mount Charity Event
MAY 1: New Wallaru World Pack
APR 27: Community Fansite Festival
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!
CABAL’S REVENGE UPDATE
Take revenge in the new Cabal’s Revenge Raid! See what you think of the new boss rematch reboot, rejoin previous Wizards in new adventures through the Recent Wizards feature, and take a spin on the emote wheel! We’ve also got tons of updates on Beastmoon events, new guild achievements, spell changes, combat changes, and much more in store for Wizards. Tournaments are also making an appearance again. Be sure to keep watch on the game’s social media channels for the latest event.
This summer is going to be a hot one on the battlefield!
KI LIVE AND DEVELOPER ROUNDTABLES
July KI Live: Professor Falmea is Back, Special Guests Eric and Mia, and more!
June KI Live: Wizard101’s Cabal’s Revenge Raid and Special Guest Jeff Toney:
Numerous developer roundtables and design livestreams have occurred since the last newsletter! Be sure to subscribe to KingsIsle’s YouTube channel for their publication (note that not all of them will make it to YouTube).
Check out this design roundtable with CheerValX, Zaepha, and The Frenzy Gamer:
And the community hosted roundtable by Genevieve Moongarden!
CELEBRATING THE 101 CREATOR COMMUNITY
Thank you all for joining us on the very first content creator exclusive livestream with special guests: Alyssalove217, faeriequeens, Kukki4u, Photographesque, Ultimate Firefly, and Ultimate Speedster!
We talked all about our amazing community, YOU all, and all the creations you've crafted for Wizard101 and Pirate101 over the years. With so much to cover, we ran over by nearly a half hour and still didn't get in half of what we wanted to show you and talk about.
We must do this again sometime soon and with another round of community guests!
PRIDE CHARITY LIVESTREAM RESULTS
Thank you for joining us on this year's Pride Charity Livestream with special guest, Andrew Schlager from Outright International. YOU raised $3,310 for Outright International's community efforts, $1,500 above our original goal! ALL codes from the livestream were limited to the livestream. They are no longer available, sorry.
A closing Happy Pride shoutout from Mean Mocha!
CSC 2023 TOURNAMENT MOUNTS
It’s been a long time coming, but the CSC 2023 tournament winner mounts have been crafted, collected, and crowned for the Crown Shop! Get yours now in-game! The more folks who purchase these event-related in-game items, the more opportunities we have to produce events throughout the year.
Check out the mounts below:
Wizard101 - Shadow Demon Pegasus
Pirate101 - Galactigator
Winning CSC 2023 teams were awarded the mounts for free.
MORE CRAZY TIKTOKS
What’s the craziest place to get your Wizard101 social media fix? Why TikTok of course! Follow Wizard101’s official TikTok channel for more of this...
Wizard101’s official Discord server recently passed the 20,000-member milestone! Are you part of our Discord community? If not, join it today!
NEW ART FROM ADAM ROUSH AND MIA SMITH
Adam Roush is KingsIsle’s Senior Concept Artist. 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 Pineapple Pal Pet from the Floating Lands Resort Bundle.” - Adam Roush
“Here's the Li'l Devil Pet/ Phantasmanian Devil. Not a single mischievous bone in his body, that's for sure.” - Adam Roush
“Here's Bodleian Harrow in his ultimate boss form, fused with the Unreadable Book. I exaggerated some of his features, like massive fangs and ears, and added tons of effects to make him look more evil.” - Adam Roush
“Here's the Wastelander Gear from the Wallaru Wastelander's Pack.” - Adam Roush
MIA SMITH
Mia Smith is KingsIsle’s Associate Character Artist who also regularly posts her amazing work on social media. Here are a couple of concepts of her most recent pieces:
“Here are some more concepts I got to work on for Wallaru for @Wizard101! These are about a little over a year old now which is crazy time flys by.” - Mia Smith
“It's finally out! Here is the gear concept I worked on for the Fanciful Fairy Kei pack. I worked back and forth with @okidenshi who pitched the idea and direction.” - Mia Smith
BONUS ANIMATION
And here’s a bonus animation from Sir Tony Gaddis!
“Morg the Merciless death animation. He's based on Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon.” - Tony Gaddis
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 are always interested in showing off more fan art, gameplay guides, videos, and other content.
For every newsletter, we receive direct links from the community to new gameplay guides, exciting upcoming contests, and much more.
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!
Thanks to fansites and other community leaders for their contributions this month!
Anton Constanti, a fantastic artist, had a fun livestream recently where he played Beastmoon and gave away a bunch of items to his community. Here's the Twitch highlight!
The Bizarre Lore of Wizard101
We have so many talented creators in the community, they all deserve recognition! Here is a witty and meme-filled lore overview of Wizard101 (Part 1 of eventually more!):
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!
FOLLOW WIZARD101
Be sure to follow the game and its community on social media!
And last but surely not least, a friendly reminder to please be nice to each other. We do not tolerate those who seek to disrupt the fun of others, and especially do not tolerate abuse and other forms of harassment. If you see any concerns of this kind in the game, please immediately report it using the in-game reporting tools. Your reports go directly to our support team to review. We can only resolve issues if we know about them.
If you have not yet read our article on online safety, please take a moment to stop by our KingsIsle Blog and read the post titled Account Security Best Practices. There’s essential information in the article about managing and protecting your entire family’s accounts.
