February Festivities
Feature
Written by chail3y
Edited by bluecherub
Feature
Written by chail3y
Edited by bluecherub
Welcome back to the Daily Diviner and Happy Valentine’s Day! On February 13th, Valentines in the Enchanted Valley was released to the Potterworld Community. In today’s feature article, I will be providing some insight into this newly released event.
As players begin the event, they also begin Chapter One of a carefully crafted story. Upon entrance into the Great Hall, they are greeted by a young girl named Rayne who has terrible news. She explains that her home, The Enchanted Valley, is in danger. Players learn that there are Villains being let into the valley by a traitor of the Fairytale Council. As the player navigates through the event, they meet various fairytale characters as they aid them in restoring not only their stories but the love that holds them together.
This story is made up of 7 chapters following a fairytale story in the form of a quest. Each chapter past the first one is locked. In order to gain access to them, you must exchange Fairy Tale Pages. There are several methods to gain these pages. One of these methods is by completing main quests or completing the daily node hunt. Additionally, there are 4 different side quests: Painting Tales, Flowers Everywhere, Cupid Troubles, and Mischief Managed. Side quests are repeatable, reset daily, and each of them gives a few pages.
The last way players can earn pages is with Inspiration Sparks! These sparks are given as rewards for completing minigames. There are 7 minigames available: Ariel's Grotto Dropper, Up the Beanstalk Parkour, Curious and Curiouser Parkour, Queen's Garden Maze, Down the Rabbit Hole Dropper, The West Wing Parkour, and Journey to Underland Maze. Once players have collected some Inspiration Sparks, they can convert them into Pages at the Librarian located in the castle library.
In addition to the main gameplay, there are also several rewards throughout the event! Players can purchase heads, banners, fireworks, scarves, magic items, and more with event tokens. These tokens are given out throughout the event. Once all 7 main quests are completed, the player may trade leftover sparks and pages for tokens, as well as unlock a section of unique specialty rewards.
I spoke with the Lead Magiventologist, Miss_Strudel to get more information about how this event came to be. Her answers gave insight that I am excited to share with all of you!
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Q - How did the idea for an enchanted fairytale valley originally surface?
A - The credit for the initial Fairytale theme goes to the former Inquisitor Lead Maddie before her resignation. Then as we met as a team about the direction for the event, we circled back to her suggestion and Max had the idea to revamp the 2017 build to go along with it. We decided to go this route because the theme of fairytales inspires a lot of gameplay and quest ideas as well as includes magic and an overall theme of ‘love.’
Q - Overall, How do you think this event has gone so far?
A - I think that the event has gone well. While there is always more that can be improved on, our quests are getting better with each event. I’m also very satisfied with the amount of gameplay our small team was able to create in the short month and a half since Winter Waltz release. The Build Team has done an amazing job giving us a place to put this gameplay with the beautiful revamp of the 2017 Valentines Build and the super fun new minigames!
Q - What are you most proud of from this event?
A - I am most proud of the progress that each of the Magiventologists has made over the course of the event. Everyone working on it either pushed their comfort zone in writing quest gameplay, learned new parts of the tech, went out of their way to pick up additional work, or spoke up more in meetings. As the team becomes more skilled and confident, I have no doubt that our events will get better and better.
Q - What was the most challenging part of the event?
A - The most challenging part was definitely figuring out how exactly players would be unlocking the quests. We didn’t want the main quests to be over and done with only a few hours after release. However, we still wanted to ensure that players are able to experience all these quests as a lot of time and effort was put into them. I’m newer to leading events and so trying to balance the Storybook Pages was fairly difficult. Thankfully, Jess and Autumn were able to lend a hand with the numbers!
Q - What are you looking forward to in future events?
A - I’m a big fan of quests and am always looking forward to the next big theme that inspires new ideas. The theme I’m most excited to work with is Pride Festival coming up this June! Potterworld has a fairly large LGBT+ population and I hope to have some fun gameplay to accompany celebrating identity and acceptance.
Q - Any additional comments?
A - I hope everyone has a fun time playing through the event. And remember to fill out the feedback form once it’s released so that we can aim to release the sort of content that our player base is most excited to play through!
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This is a very unique event with much to explore throughout The Enchanted Valley. I hope that this article has given you a little more insight into this event and the process behind it. Don’t forget that the event is live until March 13th, so make sure to adventure through the event! This was chail3y reporting. Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy the rest of this issue!