Friday the 13th

13th-adin
August 13, 2010
Today is Friday the 13th!
The Special Event starts at 6pm EST
Brace yourself for the biggest and WIERDEST event in the history of our game. See the homepage as I update the play-by-play for you giving you the full behind the scenes scoop leading up to the event. If this is your first time joining us... be forewarned.... anything can and will go wrong. We hope you have a great time today. Wish us lu..... something!

Tags: Artix Friday the 13th Event

Friday the 13th Play by Play
Updated Live As Things Happen!
Join us for our biggest and WIERDEST... and we mean WIERDEST event ever. Filled to the brim with rare items and narrated by the voice of famous voice actor, George Lowe!

1:50pm J6 just send us 5 more weapons on top of the other items we have for the release. Meanwhile, at the other end of the table I just head Miko whisper, "What? How do the players on the forums know I lost my shoes?"
1:40pm Adding voice acting out-takes to the members bonus zone.
1:20am Eeep! It is PM! Time travel Faeries beware... I can still type with my nose. Now, let us see how the rest of the team is doing on the quests. The bug report only has.... 519 entries!?
1:05am OMG They are putting ad... *Mmmmffff* (Hiya guys, Cysero here. Artix is not allowed to spoil any of our top secret release secrets so I've taken his fingers from him. He can have them back at the end of the school day.)
1:00am Daaa naa naa na na naaa na na naaaaa nana Friday the 13th! HURRY team! We are running out of time!
12:48am Emergency Pizza has arrived.
12:45am Things are descending into maddness at the Lab. Cysero just announced to the office, "All of the cupcakes have been uploaded! Now there is a stopAllSounds() at the beginning of each cupcake... and the player has been moved" For the record, we have no idea what that means either.... there are no cupcakes in this release. Cysero may be broken. Does anyone have a Cysero repair kit?
12:30am Talking about spooky stories. I just saw the final size of the cutscenes with voice acting and music.... and there are a ton of them.... the bandwidth bill for this event is going on the high score board! You are going to have to guess who the voice of Twig is. (Hint: Not me!) Oh... and be sure to take your time while playing the event and really enjoy it. We built this so that everyone, in all time zones, can enjoy the whole thing.
12:00am I am contacting Voltaire and One-Eyed Doll to let them know how things are going. (*gulps* Dear Voltaire, Hiya! Just wanted to let you know that despite the development server catching on fire we are still confident that we can make the release as long as the files stored safely on my machine do not... #FA00... error. error. System Failure. Please re-install Windows. Doors. and possibly your Walls." )
11:39am Miko just arrived. Apparently she lost her shoes this morning.
11:30am We are now balancing the boss and the challenge boss fights. For the crazy challenge fight... do you think you can take a level 32 Boss with over 50,000HP? .... in unrelated news, Warlic came out to get a cup of coffee and took the entire coffee pot into the music room then closed the door..... oooh and YAY, Zhoom just arrived!
11:15am There is a debate happening in the lab over who had the superior theme song.... Voltron, Tranzor Z (Mazinger), or Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Which, of course, erupted into who could beat who... and Cysero just said, "Voltron is the answer to most of life's questions. When asking yourself... is this the girl that I want to spend the rest of my life with. The answer is VOLTRON!" While this has nothing to do with the bonus zone we are adding to the event for Members... it is vital that we solve this before the release. Here you go: Theme Song and who can beat who giant robot forum thread.
11:00am There are nearly 18,000 players online and we are still 7 hours away from the release. The lab is a veritable pressure cooker as the team frantically rushes to meet the imminent deadline. I loaded up the mug Beowolve made and sent me with chai tea..... this way, if we mess up something on the first try... we will just chai and chai again! (Beleen says:....)
10:48am Whew, false alarm. We added a few new features to AQWorlds last night for this event. We now have the ability to update maps right under your feet without restarting the servers.This way we can do minor bug fixes without a restart.
10:45am Eeeeeeeeeep! ZHOOOOOOOOM! CALL ZHOOOM!
10:30am We took over the DragonFable table today... and siezed control of their table gum. The DragonFable team is setting up in the AQW war room instead. (Shhh... we are tricking Friday the 13th by switching positions) Also... Warlic just walked in. He did not even have time to pull out his computer before we asked to make a new song for a single scene of the finale-intro cutscene. Things are going to be a weeeee bit close. We have not even tested 4 of the 5 of the maps yet!
10:00am With only 8 hours remaining, the team is tempting the fates by just now starting to assemble all of the pieces making up the release now. Meanwhile, we have been alerted to a number of other impending issues and are taking swift action.... only 30 minutes in and today is already living up to its name!
9:40am Yesterday, we recorded Beleen laughing. To get a realistic laugh... Miko was sent in to tickle torture her. So when you hear the laugh during the event...
9:30am Artix, Cysero, Llussion & Beleen login at the secret underground lab.