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Wizard101 Family Bonding Experience
During the holidays, we’re running a contest through our “12 Days of the Spiral“. The question is – what has Wizard101 or Pirate101 meant to you and/or your family in the past year? Here is our tenth...
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Wizard101 Put My Life Back Together
During the holidays, we’re running a contest through our “12 Days of the Spiral“. The question is – what has Wizard101 or Pirate101 meant to you and/or your family in the past year? Here is our...
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How Wizard101 Helped Me Get Back on My Feet
During the holidays, we’re running a contest through our “12 Days of the Spiral“. The question is – what has Wizard101 or Pirate101 meant to you and/or your family in the past year? Here is our...
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What Wizard101 Means to Me – Friends Are Important
During the holidays, we’re running a contest through our “12 Days of the Spiral“. The question is – what has Wizard101 or Pirate101 meant to you and/or your family in the past year? Here is our...
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Help Outside of Gaming from Wizard101
During the holidays, we’re running a contest through our “12 Days of the Spiral“. The question is – what has Wizard101 or Pirate101 meant to you and/or your family in the past year? Here is our...
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Becoming a Concept Artist
From time to time, we get questions from you wonderful players about life at KingsIsle or information about the gaming industry in general. We try our best to answer these questions, and last year we...
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Makings of a KingsIsle Commercial Part III
In my last blog, I wrote about the live action aspect we had in our Wizard101 Tournament commercial. One of the key components to making that spot was the actual actors. We were extremely fortunate...
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Wizard101 and the Benefits of Educational Games
In a previous post I discussed some of the benefits that can come from online games. That post was driven primarily by the experience I had speaking at a conference and being concerned that so much of...
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Behind the Scenes: A Look Back on the 12 Days of the Spiral Promotion
It’s hard to believe that we’ve already finished our third year of the “12 Days of the Spiral” promotion! Since we started this promotion back in 2011, it is amazing to see how much it has grown and...
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Don’t Fear the Pirate
Did you know that Blue Oyster Cult lead singer Eric Bloom is a gamer, and not only that… a KingsIsle gamer? There’s even two quests in Wizard101 that are given by his NPC Snorri Oysterbloom,“Sitting...
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A Special Online Gaming Milestone
It is pretty surreal to sit back sometimes and just look at how the computer gaming industry has evolved since I first played Pong so many moons ago (yep, I realized I just dated myself J). Games have...
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The Evolution of Pirate101 Combat Part 1
One of the systems that reviewers feel stands out the most in Pirate101 is the combat. Combat in Pirate101 has been described as “deceptively simple” and “really fun”, but it took years of iteration...
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The Evolution of Pirate101 Combat Part II
Last week we introduced you to a few early versions of Pirate101 combat as KingsIsle Lead Software Engineer Josh Tigner explained the steps taken to create the Pirate101 combat system you love today....
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Behind the Scenes Look : The Making of Promotions
One of the great things about working in the marketing department for a gaming studio is coming up with new ways to promote really awesome items that our creative teams have brought to life! Not a lot...
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Where do KingsIsle Employees Get Their Inspiration?
We often feature highly creative people here on the KingsIsle Blog, and often get asked “where do you get your inspiration?” To get to the bottom of this open question, we asked some creative...
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Creativity & Pirate101
Today we have a guest blog from a highly creative Pirate101 community member. Virtuous Anne Radcliffe is an avid fan fiction writer and took some time today to discuss her thoughts about creativity...
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A Look (Back) at Wizard101 – Gaming as a Family
It’s Throwback Thursday, so today we’re throwing back to one of the first articles ever printed about Wizard101 in the Beckett Massive Online Gamer magazine. Originally printed in the May/June issue in...
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Tabletop Gaming at KingsIsle
We have lots of fun making cool games for kids of all ages at KingsIsle Entertainment, but we also make sure to spend time playing games of all types. Card games may inspire a new card spell in...
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Wizards and Pirates on the Spectrum
It’s National Autism Awareness month, and we asked community member Dead Sparrow of Duelist101 to touch on the subject for us. Growing up on the autism spectrum, I often found the social world to be a...
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Creativity at KingsIsle
Today we want to showcase some of the creativity we’re lucky to have at KingsIsle. This doesn’t just apply to making games though – many of our employees have highly creative hobbies outside of the...
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