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El Toro: Masked Savior – Second Promotion
I came up with an idea for El Toro’s second promotion and here it is on Pirate101 central! Please comment here or there with feedback – thank you!
A Map of Cool Ranch
And when I say “A Map of Cool Ranch,” I mean a map of Cool Ranch. All of Cool Ranch.
That was really fun to make! What I did was I took screenshots of all the skyways’ maps, then put them into GIMP. I selected the map part, which means I didn’t select the parts around the edges, then did Select > Invert to select only the bars on the sides. I deleted those then (after inverting the selection again) did Image > Crop to selection. After that, I selected only the skyway part, no map wanted. That was pretty hard.
I also had to fill in the spaces where the green arrow was, which was accomplished by some penciling in pink and some copy-pasting of the windlanes (with the exception of Arroyo Grande). Then I pasted them onto the main image and rotated them as necessary. After I had done this for all six skyways, I made sure everything fit together correctly, cropped down the image, filled in blank spots with empty pink skyway, and outlined everything with dark brown. Voila!
I got the idea of this reading the May 2013 Pirate101.com newsletter where it had a link to a Pirate101 Central thread where the user Arcane had already made one of Skull Island. Here is the link to that thread! Thanks for reading!
BETA BETA BETA!
It’s out! BETA IS HERE! The official press release on the Pirate101 website was just released today! I’m soooooooo happy! Thank you KingsIsle for finally doing this! 🙂 The only bad thing is, that I can’t post images, even if I get in. I think I can tell you, but I’m not sure. Time will tell. The press release is here, or below.
PLANO, TEXAS (August 3rd, 2012) – Avast me hearties! KingsIsle Entertainment is pleased to announce the Beta for Pirate101 is officially underway. The first round of Beta invitation emails has gone out to testers, and a variety of additional Beta key giveaways are planned over the next several weeks.
“The start of our closed Beta testing marks a massive step forward for Pirate101,” said J. Todd Coleman, vice president and creative director at KingsIsle Entertainment. “Design, art, technology, story—our teams have worked tirelessly to craft this fantastic new online experience for families. I cannot wait for our testers to get in and experience the new world we have created for them.”
In Pirate101, players take the helm of their very own pirate ship as they pursue an epic storyline of grand swashbuckling adventure. Intended to entertain a broad and cross-generational family audience, Pirate101 is accessible and simple to play for casual gamers, yet simultaneously offers systems with great depth and complexity for more sophisticated audiences.
Access to Beta:
Pirate101 is currently in closed Beta testing and will launch later this year. To be considered for closed Beta access, please sign up at http://www.home.p101. As part of KingsIsle’s partnership with AMD’s Gaming Evolved program, AMD will be giving away a limited number of Pirate101 Beta keys. More information about this exclusive chance at early Beta access is available at blogs.amd.com/play/2012/08/03/pirate101. Finally, ongoing updates regarding Beta access promotions can be found at http://www.home.p101/free_game/closed_beta_keys.
Also, a few new images have been released on J Todd Coleman’s and Pirate101 Central’s Facebook pages. Voila!
Zeke’s in Pirate101 too! Yay! I’ll have to see if I get into beta… That’s all for this week! Since beta is out, I may be posting more with updates from around the Spiral or around the Internet. 😛
New Pictures!
KingsIsle has released some new Pirate101 images on Pirate101 Central! The thread is here. Also, they’re posted with very nice analyses on Swordroll’s blog. The particular post is here. There’s not much else to post about Pirate101, but I’ll keep trying my best.
In this picture, it shows the tutorial, at the very beginning. Boochbeard is to Ambrose as Gandry is to Gamma.
After you’ve left there, they’ll send you on a ship. You fly/sail to Skull Island. Gandry is telling you what to do.
After you get to Skull Island, you can get to Avery’s office. “One-Eyed Jack” posted two similar pictures of these on Central.
Last is the Character page of what would be, in Wizard101, your Spellbook.
Also, I have a quote from One-Eyed Jack. Remember, this is an exact quote. I did not write this.
Heya Pirate101 fans! It’s fun to see you all guessing at things from this screen capture. I don’t want to stop the fun, but I also just want to say that you’re looking at an Alpha product of the Pirate101 game. I think you’ll find the final UI a little different when playing the actual game . . . in fact, I was just at the interface designer’s desk a few minutes ago, and he had a giant folder full of old screenshots of the different generations of the interface. It’s amazing to see how much it has progressed and how it is changing all the time while the game is still being designed. I got permission to post a few screenshots of the game to show you how the interface is looking these days. It’s almost finished and there could be further tweaks, but check ’em out! Have fun with these!
So basically, the UI (User interface) might change, and probably will look a lot different before Pirate101 is released to everyone.
Extra Game Info
I’ve been searching everywhere to get information for this blog. Unfortunately, there’s not much I can do about that. There’s been a picture J Todd Coleman released on the Pirate101 Facebook, and it’s pretty intriguing. It references the game quiz, as in Wizard101, when you chose your school. This one has a question which you answer, “Yar!” or “Nar!” I like that. 😉
Again, the “Yar!” and “Nar!” are very creative. You can also notice that this is sort of a courage question (candy sails), and won’t be something a Buccaneer would say “Yar!” to. Hopefully, we’ll get more of these questions. Please comment your analysis, or what could be more questions! I really like it when people comment, and it would help me make improvements to the blog. Comment whenever you can!
I’ve been reading some other blogs, and they’re filled with fun stuff. I just am trying as hard as I can to bring this stuff to PitS. If you notice and subscribe to KingsIsle on YouTube, they’ve released a new video on Pirate101, with a few sneak peeks. It features DadLabs, who visit KingsIsle in this video. Enjoy!
I watched this video, and found it much more intresting than I expected. It’s full of good stuff! At about 1:01 you get a little bit of gameplay. It’s mostly like Wizard101, with some setting and character differences. The companions (Pets in W101) are much larger. The top of the screen is completely empty, but the bottom is much more crowded. Not much else is different. There’s even Quest Helper! (Probably mission/task helper in P101)
I’ve also not mentioned this on the blog, and would like to. This is the only [official] podcast for Pirate101, and I’ve heard it’s very good. KingsIsle thinks that too, because they put it on their official fansites page! Pieces of Eight Radio is listened to by many, and is a great step into the Pirate101 community.
There’s more (and even more coming) places to check out if you want extra game info. If you’re looking for official, go to the Pirate101 website and go to the official fansites page. Or click here. This blog will hopefully be there someday; and check out Pirate101 Central for some more blogs. I have some links in my Community post to other blogs/fansites. If you also want this blog to be official, please please comment with suggestions. I will make this as good as I can! Thank you for reading this post!
Community
This post will be about what’s going on right now in the Pirate101 community. I might include some small updates about pirate101.com. Also, some other blogs might be referenced. Thanks for reading this post! (Sorry that I keep delaying my posts- I’m gonna try and do at least 3/4 a week now)
The pirate101 community is already off to an awesome start, and will just get better and better. Great blogs and fansites have already been set up, and more will just keep showing up.
If you were into the wizard101 community, you would know about the Friendly Necromancer. Well Friendly here just got a job at KingsIsle as Pirate101’s community manager. He’ll decide what to do, and if there’ll be “Featured Blogs” or anything. Pirate101 has really started up some great stuff, and we’ll have to see what happens about Pirate101’s community page. EDIT: Official Fan Sites and Blogs have appeared on the Community page!!!
Friendly’s blog is here. He’s also going to have a Pirate101 blog, The Friendly Witchdoctor!
Pirate101 Central- This is a great fansite, if you ask me. It was quickly set up almost immediately after Pirate101’s announcement, an is a great way for players to voice their opinion and ask questions on almost any topic. People have already got things in the swing there, and I’d you want to join, there’s almost step-by-step on the website! Just hit Register on P101C. Again, this fansite hit the ground running and is a really great one. I recommend you check it out.
Swordroll’s Pirate101 Blog- This blog, like TFN, also has a Wizard101 blog- Swordroll’s blog. I’m not sure if he’ll keep SP101B going, or will just transfer over to SB. Other than that, this is a really nice and aesthetically pleasing blog. It has some pretty cool information, and is a good one to look at if you’re trying to start a new Pirate101, or even Wizard101, blog. The link to his blog is here.
The Siren’s Call- This is a very laid-back blog, and is a great one if you like fun facts as well. It’s author also owned a previous blog, Homework in a Graveyard. This blog was very popular, and so is TSC. Check it out here!
Pirate101 Central Hosted Blogs- Since P101C is so awesome, they even let people post their own blogs on their website. Go check it out for yourself, there’s got to be something you like there. Get to them here. Guess what? They even have a place for you to put your own blogs! Check out new and old pirate blogs here.
Pirates of the Spiral- I just realized how close the name of this blog is to mine. Oh well. Johnny is well-known from Central (both) and decided to take up a blog. I think this one is really good, and has a ton of facts about Pirate101. Again, I really like it, and you can go to it here.
I’ve listed only a couple of the Pirate101 blogs springing up all over the place. There’s going to be official fansites on Pirate101.com soon, actually everything is set up but blogs, and I hope to earn a spot! Again, check out Pirate101 Central linked blogs to find many more of them. If you want your blog posted specifically above, comment on this post (and leave a link) and I’ll check it out and put it up there as soon as possible! Thanks for your support on my blog!
Pirates in the Sky 