Greetings Fellow Avatars! Not much again in the news this week.. Sergorn’s review of SotA caused some interesting reactions in the SotA forums, which of course caused a thread to be locked. The “Physical Goods Shipping Update” thread is also closed too, as backers continue to plead for any sort of update on the status of when things will ship.  I also have a media request in to the devs for some clarification, because as of late, more than one Portalarium staff, have been using the phrase, “we don’t have the bandwidth,” when it comes to updates, clarifications, etc.  I hope this doesn’t mean I don’t hear back from them.

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

• Release 54 Livestream Items
• Player Made Dungeons Sneak Peek

Release 54 Livestream(s) Items

As per usual Portalarium will be doing more “vanity items” for their upcoming release live stream.  The Release 54 Livestream(s) items are all Tropical and Polynesian themed in honor of the summer months. Damon Waldrip and Scott “Scottie” Jones have been busily working on creating them this release . This week devs revealed the Polynesian Spear and Polynesian Dress with Tropical Flower Crown.

Polynesian Spear (Scott “Scottie” Jones):

Polynesian Dress with Tropical Flower Crown (Damon Waldrip):

Player Made Dungeons Sneak Peek

Last week devs announced plans for Player Made Dungeons which are coming as soon as Q4. We even added four entrances to the Add On Store which will be available in Release 57 and will include static example dungeons. The included static example dungeons, complete with creatures and loot, will vary in point size and difficulty level and can be used until the player built dungeon feature goes live. When the player built dungeons feature goes live in Q4 2018, the example dungeons will vanish and be replaced by an entry room but the player will receive the blueprints to all the pieces needed to rebuild the dungeon (some assembly required!). Player built dungeons will be expandable and customizable with in-game craftable rooms and/or Add On Store rooms. As a bonus the Add On Store Dungeons include a Unity asset pack of dungeon rooms and hallways that you can experiment with using Unity which is free for non-professionals to download!

This week Travis “Vas Corp Por” Koleski has posted sneak peak pictures of what these will look like including an entire new dungeon kit!

[From a Dev+ Forum Post by Travis “Vas Corp Por” Koleski]

Greetings prospective dungeon-dwellers!

Here’s some work in progress screenshots of some of the dungeon pieces we’re working on for the upcoming dungeon building feature. 

Blue Chapel Room

Ancient Stone Entrance Room

Green Chapel Room

Green Marble Entrance Room (walls have waterfalls)

Medieval Entrance Room

Cathedral 24×48 Room

Cathedral 24×48 Room

Thanks for following our progress! These rooms are all works in progress but should be indicative of some of the nicer spaces you can get for your very own dungeon!