Shroud of the Avatar – Update of the Avatar #102

Good Evening Friends and  Fellow Avatars! I hope you all have been doing well. Things have been crazy busy as projects have built up a backlog. Thankfully I have set aside some time this weekend to catch up on some Ultima and Shroud of the Avatar related projects to try and make up for being months behind.

Here’s what I have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

  • SotA Steam Trading Cards
  • Release 13 Grand Tour POI: Desert Scene
  • Hair and Hats Play Nice in R13
  • R13 Player Deco Items
  • RECAP: Cyber Monday 12 Hour Telethon
  • In-game Community Weekend Events
  • This Week In the News
  • Upcoming Events

SotA Steam Trading Cards

The Dev Team launched the Shroud of the Avatar Steam Trading Cards today, which includes these seven unique cards:

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If you are not familiar with Steam Trading Cards, they are collectible (virtual) cards you get by playing games on Steam. Collect a full set of SotA trading cards to earn SotA badges, profile backgrounds, and emoticons that help you customize your profile and show off your Shroud of the Avatar gameplay.

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You can get SotA trading cards simply by playing the game. As you play, you’ll occasionally receive trading card drops which will be placed in your Steam Inventory. You can only receive about half of the SotA cards by playing and will need to collect the other half of the set from other community members. Try the beta group discussions, community market, barter with friends, and trade discussions. You can check how many drops you have remaining on your badges page (check out Steam’s trading card FAQ for more information).

Here are images of the SotA trading card badges, emoticons, and sample profile background:

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Release 13 Grand Tour POI: Desert Scene

A desert area is one of the new scenes and biome types we are introduced to in R13. It will also be part of the R13 Grand Tour Quest.

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Hair and Hats Play Nice in R13I’m happy to announce that you will no longer have to give up your hair to wear a hat in Release 13! Yay!

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R13 Player Deco Items

There will be many new decorations available in R13, including hedges, stone walls, room dividers, and even a stage with stairs. Can’t wait to see the R13 mazes created with these decorations!  As a huge fan of gardening and landscaping in real life, this makes me very excited.  I hope the maze builders in game do some amazing things with them for us.

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RECAP: Cyber Monday 12 Hour Streamathon

The Dev Team would like to thank all the special guests that participated in our Cyber Monday 12 Hour Streamathon on December 1st! The twelve hours flew by with all the fun stories and design discussions that were shared! And thanks to all of you that tuned in to listen and post your questions!

Dallas gave away tons of prizes, including 120 free weekend passes to Release 13 (starting December 18), twelve $100 Store Credit coupon winners, and fifteen winners of Plantronics and Alienware peripherals, including one lucky grand prize winner of the Alienware Gaming Desktop computer!

Richard also presented the Order of New Britannian Empire and Royal Warrant awards to the following SotA community members:

Order of New Britannian Empire

  • Fenyx4 ~ Programming
  • Melchior Meijer ~ SFX, Music and Art contributions
  • Stile Teckel (The Caverns.net)
  • Riya (New Britannia’s Builders of Bemusing Bewilderments)

Royal Warrant

  • Joseph Toschlog (Rustic Dragon) ~ Hearth of Britannia
  • Joe Garrity ~ The Origin Museum
  • Amber Raine ~ Avatar’s Radio
  • Balec ~ Accepting for the Bear Tavern
  • Duke Violation ~ Order of Vengeance (PvP Tournaments)
  • Duke Gréagóir ~ Dara Brae, The Celtic Holdfast (Welcome Quest)
  • Languard and Aartemis: Society of Dungeoneering Cartography Scene Collaboration.

 

If you missed the live Streamathon you can view it here…


Release 12 In-game Weekend Community Events

avatars-circle-logo-concept-7[1]Our amazing community has another great lineup of in-game events planned for Release 12 this weekend. If you missed out on these player events during the previous Releases, I highly recommend you check some of them out this weekend (especially the Pax Lair and Vengeance Events). Here is the latest schedule of player events from the Avatar’s Circle Community Events calendar (http://avatarscircle.com/community-events/):

Friday, December 5
10:00pm CST – Dungeon Run – Braemar Cemetery
7:00pm CST – Dungeon Run – Braemar Cemetery

Saturday, December 6
9:00am CST – PaxLair Working Hours – Host Winfield (in Valemark)
11:00am CST – Church of the Dark Star – The Monsters that Dwell Within – Deceit (PaxLair, Valemark)
12:00Pm CST – Welcome Quest 12.5 – (in Northshire, “/zone Dara Brae”, details)

Sunday, December 7
5:30 am CST – Explore Novia with royalsexy (Braemer cemetery)
5:00 pm CST – PvP – 1×1 Tournament (at the Brave Coast or “/zone Duke Violation”)
6:00pm CST – Tag – Vengeance Style! (at the Brave Coast or “/zone Duke Violation”)
7:00pm CST – PaxLair Meeting – (in Valemark or “/zone Winfield PaxLair”)


SotA_InTheNews_ReadingScrollThis Week In the News

November 27 – PC Gamer – Shroud of the Avatar impressions: Lord British’s rough new world

 


Upcoming Events

2014.12.18 – Release 13 Access
2015.01.22 – Release 14 Access
2015.02.19 – Release 15 Access
2015.03.13 – SotA at SXSW Interactive
2015.03.26 – Release 16 Access