Outspark Blog
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Erebus Beta 2 is live!
Erebus is back for another exciting beta. The teams at Zemi and Outspark have worked hard to make the game better. But, don’t take our word for it, download and play right now.
See the game trailer here
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Outspark’s Founder in the News
Last week, Ryan Flinn from Bloomberg profiled Susan Choe, Outspark’s founder and CEO. Here is a link to the version of the story that appeared in the business section in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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New Guy(s) at Outspark
You may have noticed a lot of changes at Outspark — new games, changes to outspark.com, more emails, new profile features and an expanded effort on facebook and other player hubs. In the spirit of recognizing recent changes, and celebrating today’s Fists of Fu beta, here’s a bit of information about some new folks at Outspark.
My name is Aaron Burcell, and I joined Outspark a few months ago. I was recently at Gazillion, the family-friendly MMO developer and publisher working with Lego and Marvel amongst others. I launched the SmartyCard business for Gazillion in early 2009. Prior to Gazillion, I launched several well-known social apps and social media properties from 2005-2008. Over the last two decades, I’ve worked for a number of passionate and well-known media entrepreneurs, such as Gazillion’s Rob Hutter, OnLive’s Steve Perlman, MySpace’s Michael Cerda and executives from MTV, Yahoo! and Microsoft. I’m very happy to be here at Outspark, where I’m surrounded by a group of enthusiastic employees with impressive games and online media backgrounds, including Susan Choe, Outspark’s founder and CEO.
If you’ve played Fiesta or any of our other games, chances are you’ve chatted with Susan, whether you know it or not. Susan hires people with similar startup values. Everyone here works hard, and we’re all focused on listening and learning from our players in an effort to create sustaining improvements to our games, our web properties and our social applications.
Also recently joining Outspark, Steve Sims is the VP of Product Management and Service Operations. Steve has a rich history in mobile and console game development, including producing mainstay titles at EA and product managing GeForce graphics cards at Nvidia.
Steve and I aren’t here to replace anyone, nor are we trying to lay claim to future successes. We’re earnest about our desire to help our game customers, and we want to be open and accessible for anyone interested in Outspark. And, we’re very serious about improving the overall experience for each Outspark game community, whilst growing the number of games we successfully launch and service.
I won’t volunteer Steve’s contact information, but I sit next to Steve in the office so I can ask him anything for you;) Feel free to contact me with any questions at:
Twitter: @aaronburcell
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/aaron.burcell
Outspark.com: login –> search people –> aaronburcell
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Divine Souls in PC Gamer Magazine July 2010
Outspark is proud to announce the inclusion of Divine Souls in the Massive Attack section of the latest PC Gamer mag!
“Action MMO Divine Souls is bringing arcade-style combat to the masses” – PC Gamer
Feel free to download the article PDF HERE.
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The Estate System
Welcome to your new home in Fiesta! Now you and up to 14 of your friends have a place to hang out when you need a break from adventuring in Isya. In addition to being a great place to relax, in the future, your Estate will give you the option to warp to various places in the world along with the option to buy cool games such as the Dice Game through the Fiesta Store. Content will be available after maintenance on Tuesday, February 9th.
Please note that new content and features will be continually added to this system in the future, including mini-games and other useful items. This patch will currently make the Estate itself and some starter furniture available.
Accessing Your Estate
In order to access your Estate, you must first acquire the Estate skill. You can do this by Completing the “Is this Estate enough for you” quest given by Grandpa Robin in Roumen.
You must be at least level 10 to accept the quest. Once you’ve learned the skill, click the Mini House icon (shortcut “H” key) and select [Enter Estate].
The Estate Menu
The Estate Menu will appear before you enter your estate. It contains settings for your Estate including password (for security) and the maximum number of visitors. Make your selections and click OK to enter your Estate!
Once inside your Estate, the Estate Menu will reappear with a few more options. Here you can alter Estate settings, view the Guest Book and more. Access the Estate Menu anytime by clicking on the translucent house icon under the map.
Furniture and Decorations
A new place is nothing without new furniture! Decorate your Estate with items like the Suit of Armor and Potted Plant, or collect entire furniture sets like the Cloud Design. If you are ready to buy furniture, pay a visit to Furniture Shop Owner Forest Tim in Uruga and start shopping!
How to use furniture
- When you have bought furniture, return to your Estate to start decorating.
- Start by opening your inventory and right clicking on the object you wish to use.
- Open the Estate Menu and click on the Decoration Item tab, right click on the object, and select Arrange Item from the menu.
- Use the mouse to place the object and hold CTRL to rotate the object.
- Left click to place the object
- If you make a mistake and wish to move the object, right click on the object and select arrange.Many objects you can place in your home have unique interactions, so don’t be afraid to explore the “Furniture Action” option in the right click menu.
The Estate also has a magical doorway called the Gate which can only be accessed with Warp Scrolls. Warp Scrolls act much like Warp Gates but with a few differences:
- The Gate can only be summoned by the home owner if the home owner has a Warp scroll in their inventory.
- The Warp Scroll and Gate have a much shorter availability time than the Warp Gate.
- Warp Scrolls can be purchased from Nina in ElderineTips when arranging furniture
- If an object is OK to place in a spot, the object will be shaded in green.
- If an object is not OK to be placed in a spot, it will be shaded in red.
- Objects cannot be stacked or placed on top of one-another.
- Any wall object (doors, paintings) can only be placed on walls.Repairs
Over time, furniture will start to fall apart. If it becomes too damaged, you may not even be able to move it! Furniture Repair kits will be available in the Fiesta Store in various sizes (as of release, these kits will not be available yet, as they will not needed right away). To repair an item, open your inventory and select Furniture Repair. Select OK, and select the object you wish to repair (the object will now be shaded yellow). Click the object and then click Start Repairing. In a few moments the object will be like new again!
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Fiesta Winter Wonderland
Did you guys happen to have been checking our great deals at our New Year Spectacular event? We’ve had a bunch of special deals on limited-edition bundles! The last two days had been the long-awaited Christmas-themed Wintertide weapon skins. If you missed out on those, don’t worry, there’s a lot more neat stuff coming your way! The event will be going on till the 5th of the new year, we’re celebrating with all of you guys! Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, 2010 is almost here!
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Solstice Winter Wonderland
Another year has come and gone, I can’t believe all the developments we’ve made this year! I’ll wish to Santa that we’ll have another smooth and productive year, celebrating with all of our Outspark community! We couldn’t have done it without all your participation and support! Thank you, Happy Holidays!
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Wind Slayer Wonder Winterland
You all ready for the clue for the Wonder Winterland event?
“Secure your place in history as one of the land’s greatest adventurers! Featuring six powerful classes, gorgeous fantasy environments and fast-paced side scrolling action, Wind Slayer is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game unlike any other!” Be the Wind Slayer of THIS LAND. (Enter the code in all lower cases. The code is not “this land”. )
Fiesta code hint: The hairstyle applies to females only!
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Oracle Blog Rules and Guidelines has been posted!
We’ve posted some new rules and guidelines for our blog!
Please take the time to read these before posting, as it could help keep you out of some trouble.
You can always review them at our announcements section.
Oracle Blog Rules:
1) The Outspark Terms of Services (TOS) applies to all areas of the Outspark service, including this Blog. Don’t post comments that may be considered flaming, trolling, blacklisting, profane, or harassing in any manner; this includes using Asterisks (*), other symbols, or omission of a letter or two to mask inappropriate words.
2) DO NOT post personal information, including emails, MySpace links, etc. on the blog.3) All posts must be in English. Comments that are not in English are subject to deletion.Blog Puzzles Guidelines:
1) The puzzles are a test of knowledge, skill, and speed. All answers can be found in-game or on our game website.
2) All blog puzzle answers should be redeemed at http://outspark.com/redeem/; do not post the answers anywhere on the blog, forums, or other places others may see.
Do not PM the CLs, CSRs, or GMs with the answer; they will not be able to reward you.3) Do not post in the blog comments about the code not working; if you are positive you have the correct answer and the code does not work, it’s highly possible that the code has already expired.
4) If you do not receive the correct amount of SparkCash from the puzzle, it is possible that your code is interfering with another scheduled event.
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Simple WINDSLAYER Riddle #4
Here’s our simple riddle for our Windslayer players! If you play, this should be a cinch!
First 30 people to figure this simple riddle out wins 1,500 sparkcash! Good luck!
All prizes have been redeemed for this riddle already!
Please join us again next time, Happy Holidays!The answer is in one words! Do NOT post the answers anywhere.
Please submit your answer to the riddle here, log-in required: http://outspark.com/redeem/” I’ll be sure to teach what you want to know,
just come find me, and I’ll give it a go.
With my enormous hat and a pointy nose,
I’m the one person in your town that knows.
You can find me in any city, wherever you may be,
interested in something new? Stop by me and see!”
