As you know we teased on our first KI Live of the year and our February KI Live that the next major update coming to Wizrd101 is “Rate My Stitch” along with a few other features!
Rate My Stitch will be a new event that allows you to show off your passion for fashion! Without getting into too much detail, if you participate in the Rate My Stitch event, you’ll pick an outfit, submit the stitch for everyone to rate, and then be placed on a leaderboard. There will of course be incredible new related rewards that you can win through this new feature!
Not only will this new event be in the upcoming Test Realm (very soon!), but there will be another feature that everyone has been expecting! Let's just say if you want harder content, you'll get the choice.
Enough of spoiling Test Realm, let’s take a look at this month's incredible community newsletter!
KI LIVE: RATE MY STITCH FIRST LOOK
Thank you all for stopping by! On the show, we teased Rate My Stitch for the next update, along with other less descriptive features being added, and gave a bit more clarity on State of the Games for Pirate101 and Wizard101 Europe!
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.
For those who didn't get a chance to redeem the KI Live giveaway code yet, we opened it up again SUPERFRIENDS233 for another 500 redemptions to get the KI Live Snack Pack in both Wizard101 and Pirate101!
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.
GENEVIEVE’S COMMUNITY ROUNDTABLE
Genevieve MoonGarden hosted a roundtable that featured plenty of KI employees that used to play the game in the community. Many questions were asked and you get insight into what it was like to go from community member to then working for the game that you’ve been playing for years! Check it out!
If you’re interested in hosting a roundtable, reach out to a community manager, or email us at community@kingsisle.com and tell us what you’d like topic and who you’d like on your channel for a roundtable!
ISLEPLAY IS BACK
Hey, did you miss IslePlay Community Livestream hosted by Hawkules and Kyle IceWielder! In this episode, we featured more KI Designers! You ask them your most hard-hitting questions and they answer!
IslePlay our official Community Livestream will be streaming every other Friday starting at 3:00pm CST / 9:00pm UTC so mark those Calendars.
SPIRAL SHOWDOWN FINALE
The showdown to end all showdowns has ended in a cataclysmic showdown. Players from around the Spiral have decided who their favorite NPC from each game is.
Many Wizard101 fans probably remember the distinct and comforting voice that followed them as they first set foot in the Spiral. Whether you picked up an intriguing item or discovered an important clue during your travels, the voice of Wizard101’s narrator was there to guide you. That voice was Dell Aldrich.
Dell’s unique voice brought incredible life into the game as both the Narrator and Grandmother Raven. It shocked us that during the production of this plushie, Dell passed away in October 2022.
While Dell is sadly no longer with us, her memory and legacy continues to live on …. and we want to continue that legacy too. To continue Dell’s legacy and support local arts and entertainment, we will be donating 50% of the Grandmother Raven plushie profits to ZACH Theatre.
Adam Roush is our Senior Concept Artist here at KingsIsle Entertainment. Sometimes Adam will create a series of concept art for a particular scene or character. Here are a few concepts of his most recent pieces this month:
“Here's the concept for the new Stormzilla gear, which can be unlocked in the Spring Scroll of Fortune. Ultimately had to shrink the tail, but this design was fun to work on.” - Adam Roush
“Here's the Standard Bear. Just a totally, completely normal bear. Very fun creature to design :D” - Adam Roush
"Here's the Carnival Krewe gear concept." - Adam Roush
"Here's Phileas Dogg - they're easily my favorite character that I got to design for Novus. Spent extra time adding in more details to make them look awesome!" - Adam Roush
"Here's some early Puerto Nuovo environment concepts. I drew a lot of inspiration from Dr. Strange and Inception, mirroring and twisting a Valencian city. Loved working on these :)" - Adam Roush
ART SPOTLIGHT
For this month’s art spotlight, we are showcasing Clown, Retro, Coco, and Megan!
“The last one in the Mooshu category, the Death Ninja pig! Commonly found in the Tree of Life Dungeon, apart of the Kakeda clan lore wise” - Clownegade
“Everybody's favorite hero! (aka my favorite hero because I'm biased)” - Retro
“I drew Grandmother Ravens heart she hides from Spider” - MeganIceBreeze
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
Video Spotlight
In this section we wanted to highlight some recent, entertaining videos for the month! 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!
FormalPhantom created a video of his opinions on each world. He rates each world and gives explanations as to why each world is rated from best to worst in 2023! Great videos as of late and definitely give this video a watch!
Don’t stop there... here are some more great videos created this month!
Kaiser Noah ranks all the schools for 2023! This is a very entertaining video so go give it a watch and leave your thoughts in the comments! - Ranking The Wizard101 Schools in 2023
GenRPG has been recording some incredible Wizard101 content for the past few months now! If you’re into watching a very chill video of some fun wizard101 adventures through Celestia, this is the video for you! Thank you for creating some great content, it’s extremely relaxing and enjoyable to watch! - Wizard101: what’s going on here?
Guide Spotlight
If you need a GREAT guide, this is the place for you! Most of these guides will be up to date and are made by the community! We can’t thank you enough for creating such informative guides. We see and read everything!
Wizard101 Folio created a guide on questing in Wizard City, we made this wizard city quest tree to help track your progress in wizard city while questing. - Wizard City Quest Tree | Main Quest Line
Genevieve MoonGarden also created an incredible Beastmoon Monster Mayhem Celestia map guide. If you need to learn how to get around the map quickly and efficiently, this video is perfect for you! - BEASTMOON CELESTIA MAP GUIDE
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