April Fools Day came to Artix Entertainment games with much to-do parthian week. Players had surprises some every nook and lots of fun. See how the Artix fools tormented their players and keep recitation!

APRIL FOOLS!

Like a sunshiny beacon, April 1st glows on my wall calendar. It is the one day of the year were we tooshie give the rules outgoing the window and pull a outrageous or laugh inducing trick at our amazing players. Subsequently 6 years of doing many of our players see it coming. So we think hard on how to "got ya!" and get a laugh. Sure, in the past we have gone too far and thrown and twisted a blunder, LOL. Merely in my opinion, this year was our unexcelled ever. If you think it is tough coming up with the perfect prank for just i game – imagine stressful to do it for all quaternity!

If you would like to take heed what we did this class (and some wormy memories of April Fools pranks from eld past)…. scan happening!

Battle along!
Artix

ADVENTUREQUEST WORLDS ( http://www.AQ.com )

This was our first April Fool's japery in an MMO so we precious to serve something really specialized. The day ahead we had a live dialogue between Warlic (a blue mage) and Zorbak (100% ebil Moglin). Zorbak was trying to "borrow" a Secret Pencil of Endless Scribbles and the players voted in parliamentary procedure to force Warlic to give it to him. They had no idea what it was all virtually though.

On April 1st the Players logged to a message informing them that "to save bandwidth costs, we ingest SLIGHTLY reduced the amount of lines and color in our art. We ARE Predestined you won't even notice!"

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And so they logged into the main town of Battleon…

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LOL, we also had a one day only April fool's shop class merchandising scribble weapons, fool outfits and a whoopee cushions pet. Exploring down you ascertain out that Zorbak had used the pencil to draw over most of the townsfolk.

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I liked that in that respect was a storyline following the prank and that we did it in game. A lot of players commented that it was things like this are the reason they feel for the game is soh special. The world is continually evolving and changing… and for some reason we make love it when things break down terribly, terribly condemnable!

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DragonFable ( http://www.dragonfable.com )

The call was being made for several days that Rolith was allowing Cysero to code the game. Of course we are keenly conscious that Cysero has Atomic number 102 idea how to program. Announcing that he had made a change to the engine, players logged in connected April 1st to find the Uncastrated GAME FLIPPED UPSIDE DOWN.

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It was really hard to navigate and play with the game upside down. The players let U.S.A know, so an hour tardive we added a flick button <whew!>. Close class for April Mu's we claimed there was a "small technicall glitch with the servers" and we swapped every of the MechQuest and DragonFable NPCs… LOL, but some players thought it was intentional and were unhinged when we took the NPCs out of MechQuest. Two years ago we released the super cardinal to the burden game secret plan: "ChickenCow Lord" Class and renamed the game ChickenCowFable for a twenty-four hours. Cluckcluckmoooooooooooo!

MechQuest ( http://www.mechquest.com )

For April Fool's, Players logged and were notified that they "Won a FREE Lever the eye-POD! Click present to claim your esteem." If you tried to close it, slews of annoying additional Jimmy the centre-POD ads filled your screen.

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When you finally clicked on information technology, you were directly put into a battle with the full-ferret-sized Mecha interpretation of Jimmy the eye-POD. He uses his ultra mega super unstoppable oculus light beam laser blast!!! KAAAAPOWWWW! And starts a 5 microscopical long-wool cutscene where it blows up your mech…. Soluna city… 4,995 years in the future and blows high DragonFable's town…. Goes 5 years in the future and blows ahead AdventureQuest's town… so goes ??? into the future beyond that and blows up Drakath, in the middle of his legendary cutscene in the AQWorlds MMO!

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Drakath slain away one and only of his eye monsters beams? How eye-ronic!? (Safiria just hit me for typewriting that.)

AdventureQuest ( http://web.battleon.com )

In AdventureQuest for April fool's they…. Well…. Galanoth and his team did thus much I do non know where to commenc! You might impartial need to hold that unrivaled for yourself. AdventureQuest has had the most April Fools… we sure did learn few lessons making them. One year we pretended the entire staff got into a fight and hated each strange. We went so overboard that we could not convince the players on the forums that we were just humourous… they mentation we were all going to quit!

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Happening this week!

This April Fool's was thus much fun – I cannot wait until next year's! Merely this week is just acquiring started. On Friday, we are preparing to go up against the 1st Master of Topsy-turvyness's minions in AQworlds ( www.aq.com ). In DragonFable ( www.dragonfable.com ), they are adding fishing (IT is fun and really bizarre…. Beware Prawnzilla!) There are also brand new MechQuest (web.MechQuest.com) and AdventureQuest (www.BattleOn.com) releases. This is a great hebdomad for adventure!

Fight on!
Artix & the neighborly AE Team