1 Year Anniversary!

1 Year Anniversary!
Posted 2021-10-19 02:00:21 #543378 1 Year Anniversary! On the 19th October 2020 we opened Wolvden to the public. Today we're celebrating our 1 year anniversary - and what a year it's been! We have a couple of announcements to make, but first we'd like to invite you on a journey to recap of all the major changes and additions to the game that we've made this past year! An Overview We hope to cover a few topics in this post: we've included an overview so you can prioritise your reading! A Year of Development - a look at what we've accomplished and added to the game over the past year. Roadmap - our loose plans for the future of Wolvden, and what's to come (in no particular order). Thank You - we'd like to give our thanks Anniversary Festivities - there's a cause for celebration! A Year of Development Wolvden has evolved so much over the past year, and - despite the bugs and the stumbling blocks along the way - we're really happy with our progress. We're hopeful that future years are equally, if not more productive! Our major updates have added some valuable new features to the game, and have usually been accompanied by a flurry of smaller changes, additions, bug fixes and visual components for your wolves - such as markings, decorations, backgrounds, and so on. Here is a brief overview of our updates, with easy links to their respective news posts: Update 1: Immortal wolves Update 2: Craftable decorations, Bookmarks, and Battle Trophies Update 3: Pair Bonding, December Gifting, and Foxes Update 4: Pair Bonding Tweaks and our small development roadmap Update 5: Fishing and Slots Games, and Custom Decors Update 6: Gene's Hollow, big Hunting changes, and Securing a Wolf The first Lunar Event! Update 7: Battle system overhaul Update 8: Sentinel Variant, Gifting, and In-game Year Counter Update 9: The Enclave, Pair Bond adoptions, Dark theme, and new Den displays Update 10: Puppy Training and Raffle Studs Update 11: Adolescent Apprenticeships, Pupsitter interface and HTML editor tweaks Update 12: Questing Overhaul Update 13: Raffles and Early Access Anniversary We have also been doing a lot of background work: reworking systems, bug fixing, keeping a watchful eye on the status of the game and its security, and trying to make the game more user-friendly. We appreciate that when we started out things were quite difficult. Hopefully we're in a better place now - we feel like we're leagues away from where we started, but we definitely still have some improvement ahead of us, and we're excited about future developments! Roadmap During the year we listed some features that we were planning to add as a long-term goal. Some of those still remain on the to-do list. It's been a strange year, with the pandemic still affecting us in many ways, but we're happy with the updates that we've put out so far. So let's have a look at our plans for the future: Mini games. We still intend to add more mini games to the site going forward. Talent trees with skills, abilities and battle moves for your lead wolf. This has been planned for a while but with changes to battling and other areas of the game, we have wanted to let things settle before implementing. More explore content. We have recently been working on new texts and encounters for explore and we hope these will be added soon! The introduction of a karma system, and all its associated unique encounters and titles it brings! This is still very much on our radar, it may take a little longer with all the other things we have planned. More in depth content in relation to wolf personality and relationships between pack members. We feel that personalities have so much room to be fleshed out, but this is tricky as we need to keep in mind the current game dynamic and make any changes here don't disrupt things like hunting too much! Clans! As you may have seen, clans is something we'd like to tackle very soon. We are actively taking feedback, and we're excited by some of the ideas that have been posted. Feeding and Care overhaul. Again we have been taking feedback on a potential system that would rework how care is performed in the game. We are looking at various options at the moment, and will likely be bringing a partial update for this very soon! Our First Full Month Event! Soon™ Thank You We would like to say an enormous thank you to everyone who has helped Wolvden become what it is today. Firstly, a massive thank you to the artists who work on fantastic art pieces for Wolvden. You have truly elevated the game and we are always excited and delighted to see new art for every upcoming project and feature that we work on. We'd also like to extend our thanks to the server admin and developers that work with us on keeping the game alive and functioning, whether it's individual functionality or whole systems and games that you work on, we are eternally grateful for your work. Our volunteer moderators deserve a huge thank you for looking after our members and helping us keep the game a friendly and welcoming place. We are honored that you would choose to spend your free time to help us keep this project running In the same vein, we would like to give our deepest thanks to our Community Managers for your tireless work in aiding the moderators, keeping the game in order, and giving your very valued feedback on prospective new features for the game. Lastly, we have nothing but thanks for players - without players, there would be no game. Thank you so much for sticking with us through those difficult first months, and we hope that moving forward the game continues to grow and exceed your expectations. Anniversary Festivities 22nd-24th October 2021 This weekend we will be hosting an EXP Boost event! If you log in and play over the weekend, each of your wolves will gain a bonus 25% EXP for completing their regular activities! We are also releasing an Anniversary Bundle with some special Anniversary items which will be available to collect over the 22nd-24th. It will be one bundle per member, and the items will be bound to your account. The place to collect this will be on the main News page! This event will run from 12:00am on the 22nd October until 11:59pm on the 24th October. Customiser Contest! We are giving away 5 fully customised wolves! You can design your dream wolf and submit it for a chance to have that wolf join your pack! Entries are free, you can submit one entry (but you can change your entry as you wish). You must have a territory space free at the time of the contest draw to be eligible to win the wolf. Enter the Customiser Contest here! Winners will be pulled on 24th October 2021 - winners are chosen by a random script, but the action is done manually. We will get as close to 11:59pm on that date as we can for closing time. Anniversary Raffles! We're launching a handful of special raffles for the Anniversary celebrations! Anniversary Raffle - GC - be in for a chance of winning some GC! Anniversary Raffle - Grove - fancy some special Grove items? Anniversary Raffle - Lunar - or how about Lunar applicators? That's all for now - the main event starts on Friday! We'd just like to take a final opportunity to say thank you for playing, and we hope you continue to find value in your time here with us

Posted 2021-10-19 02:00:21

#543378

1 Year Anniversary!

On the 19th October 2020 we opened Wolvden to the public. Today we're celebrating our 1 year anniversary - and what a year it's been!

We have a couple of announcements to make, but first we'd like to invite you on a journey to recap of all the major changes and additions to the game that we've made this past year!

An Overview

We hope to cover a few topics in this post: we've included an overview so you can prioritise your reading!

A Year of Development - a look at what we've accomplished and added to the game over the past year.

Roadmap - our loose plans for the future of Wolvden, and what's to come (in no particular order).

Thank You - we'd like to give our thanks

Anniversary Festivities - there's a cause for celebration!

A Year of Development

Wolvden has evolved so much over the past year, and - despite the bugs and the stumbling blocks along the way - we're really happy with our progress. We're hopeful that future years are equally, if not more productive!

Our major updates have added some valuable new features to the game, and have usually been accompanied by a flurry of smaller changes, additions, bug fixes and visual components for your wolves - such as markings, decorations, backgrounds, and so on.

Here is a brief overview of our updates, with easy links to their respective news posts:

Update 1: Immortal wolves

Update 2: Craftable decorations, Bookmarks, and Battle Trophies

Update 3: Pair Bonding, December Gifting, and Foxes

Update 4: Pair Bonding Tweaks and our small development roadmap

Update 5: Fishing and Slots Games, and Custom Decors

Update 6: Gene's Hollow, big Hunting changes, and Securing a Wolf

The first Lunar Event!

Update 7: Battle system overhaul

Update 8: Sentinel Variant, Gifting, and In-game Year Counter

Update 9: The Enclave, Pair Bond adoptions, Dark theme, and new Den displays

Update 10: Puppy Training and Raffle Studs

Update 11: Adolescent Apprenticeships, Pupsitter interface and HTML editor tweaks

Update 12: Questing Overhaul

Update 13: Raffles and Early Access Anniversary

We have also been doing a lot of background work: reworking systems, bug fixing, keeping a watchful eye on the status of the game and its security, and trying to make the game more user-friendly. We appreciate that when we started out things were quite difficult. Hopefully we're in a better place now - we feel like we're leagues away from where we started, but we definitely still have some improvement ahead of us, and we're excited about future developments!

Roadmap

During the year we listed some features that we were planning to add as a long-term goal. Some of those still remain on the to-do list. It's been a strange year, with the pandemic still affecting us in many ways, but we're happy with the updates that we've put out so far.

So let's have a look at our plans for the future:

Mini games. We still intend to add more mini games to the site going forward.

Talent trees with skills, abilities and battle moves for your lead wolf. This has been planned for a while but with changes to battling and other areas of the game, we have wanted to let things settle before implementing.

More explore content. We have recently been working on new texts and encounters for explore and we hope these will be added soon!

The introduction of a karma system, and all its associated unique encounters and titles it brings! This is still very much on our radar, it may take a little longer with all the other things we have planned.

More in depth content in relation to wolf personality and relationships between pack members. We feel that personalities have so much room to be fleshed out, but this is tricky as we need to keep in mind the current game dynamic and make any changes here don't disrupt things like hunting too much!

Clans! As you may have seen, clans is something we'd like to tackle very soon. We are actively taking feedback, and we're excited by some of the ideas that have been posted.

Feeding and Care overhaul. Again we have been taking feedback on a potential system that would rework how care is performed in the game. We are looking at various options at the moment, and will likely be bringing a partial update for this very soon!

Our First Full Month Event! Soon™

Thank You

We would like to say an enormous thank you to everyone who has helped Wolvden become what it is today.

Firstly, a massive thank you to the artists who work on fantastic art pieces for Wolvden. You have truly elevated the game and we are always excited and delighted to see new art for every upcoming project and feature that we work on.

We'd also like to extend our thanks to the server admin and developers that work with us on keeping the game alive and functioning, whether it's individual functionality or whole systems and games that you work on, we are eternally grateful for your work.

Our volunteer moderators deserve a huge thank you for looking after our members and helping us keep the game a friendly and welcoming place. We are honored that you would choose to spend your free time to help us keep this project running

In the same vein, we would like to give our deepest thanks to our Community Managers for your tireless work in aiding the moderators, keeping the game in order, and giving your very valued feedback on prospective new features for the game.

Lastly, we have nothing but thanks for players - without players, there would be no game. Thank you so much for sticking with us through those difficult first months, and we hope that moving forward the game continues to grow and exceed your expectations.

Anniversary Festivities

22nd-24th October 2021

This weekend we will be hosting an EXP Boost event! If you log in and play over the weekend, each of your wolves will gain a bonus 25% EXP for completing their regular activities!

We are also releasing an Anniversary Bundle with some special Anniversary items which will be available to collect over the 22nd-24th. It will be one bundle per member, and the items will be bound to your account. The place to collect this will be on the main News page!

This event will run from 12:00am on the 22nd October until 11:59pm on the 24th October.

Customiser Contest!

We are giving away 5 fully customised wolves! You can design your dream wolf and submit it for a chance to have that wolf join your pack!

Entries are free, you can submit one entry (but you can change your entry as you wish). You must have a territory space free at the time of the contest draw to be eligible to win the wolf.

Enter the Customiser Contest here!

Winners will be pulled on 24th October 2021 - winners are chosen by a random script, but the action is done manually. We will get as close to 11:59pm on that date as we can for closing time.

Anniversary Raffles!

We're launching a handful of special raffles for the Anniversary celebrations!

Anniversary Raffle - GC - be in for a chance of winning some GC!

Anniversary Raffle - Grove - fancy some special Grove items?

Anniversary Raffle - Lunar - or how about Lunar applicators?

That's all for now - the main event starts on Friday! We'd just like to take a final opportunity to say thank you for playing, and we hope you continue to find value in your time here with us

Posted 2021-10-19 02:03:36 (edited)

#543379

Congratulations everyone and thank you for all your hard work this last year and beyond! I am very excited to see what next year brings!