Recent News
Search Options ►Quol added and items!
Items
The Quolgarian species has been added to Ara custom orbs, as requested :)
Also, here are two new items to bridge the gap between Metal and Blue. Both these items allow you 30% edits to common species of their region. :)
Bronze Custom Crystal
15 GP in the Cash Shop
Bronze Custom Orb
1,500,000 BP in the BP Shop
Enjoy!
10 random people who post in this news post in the next hour will win a Bronze item of their choice (please specify in your comment).
EDIT! winrars:
-Kristi- #6558
Ducki #7905
Ricari #235
Jess #305
Dr. Mrs. Antiscient #7825
Rain Bullet #409
Paradoxical #36
Dream #678
Kaze #989
FoxinsanityCarm #607
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:42pm
Custom Items
Items
Our first batch of custom items came in, if you want to see how they turned out :)
Also, once you use a package to create your custom item, any initial copies you want after the first ten only cost 1 GP each (as opposed to 2 GP for the 20 GP package). You can refill your copies of your custom item any time by contacting me.
Some of these items were requested by their creators to be available to the public - including some of those new foods (Cherry Popper, Man Meat, Boo Cake). Another two (Snow Leopard and Goblin Figurine) are in the Trash for Treasure shop.
Oh, it looks like we have some lack of r20 items for some reason, so I added some new r20 food items to balance that out :D
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:23am
Maintenance Complete
Site Update
I apologize -- that took 10 more minutes than I expected it too.
The site maintenance is complete and Aywas should be back up for all of you. I know, many of you are running around the site thinking "What's new what's new?" This maintenance was mainly for some of the key parts that keeps Aywas running as well as tools to better help the Aywas staff serve you and keep the site running smoothly. Below are a few, important things you guys should noticed that has been changed (some of these may have already been noted):
- User profile commenting fixed
I apologize on taking so long to fix this -- I wasn't even aware it was broken until it was brought directly to me. The commenting should be reenabled through the profiles now.
- Send mail to your own account
You should be able to send PMs directly to your own accounts now. This should help those who share accounts.
- Purchase multiple inventory slots at once
Although released last week, for those who did not know, you can now specific the number of inventory slots you can purchase at a time instead of just ten at a time.
- Chaos cooking prizes
Released last week as well, the number of items you put into cooking should be the number of prizes you get from Chaos when cooking with him (except for gourmet cooking).
- Forum Signatures restored
Released last week, premium members should start seeing their signatures back in their forum posts.
- Confirmation when sending items/BP/GP to another player
In the inventory and bank areas, if you send items or currency to another player, you will now be asked to confirm that what you are sending is going to the right person.
- Online status in forums
Ick, the list does go on D= I will just end it here.
Anyways, as for some new things. If you haven't already headed over to the game section, there's a new game there for you guys to play.
So when you have the chance, check it out. Once we start getting some high scores in, we will adjust the BP you can earn in this and the other flash games as well.
As well, a new feature for the premium users! Double Play allows all premium users to send scores twice as many times as normal. So instead of sending scores in three times a day, you can now send them in six times a day. As of now, Aywas only has three flash games to play, but six more are coming! We just won't tell you when =P
So if you don't already have a premium account, Go and get one!
That's it for now. I'll be browsing the bugs forum for the remainder of the night to fix any new bugs that may have popped up, so if you run into any new issues on the site, please post them there.
Posted by *Yasu
(#3410) on Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:52am
Maintenance at 12:10am
Site Update
Hey there!
At 12:10am Aywas time the site will be going offline for approximately 15 minutes as I upload and configure some new changes that have been requested by the members here on Aywas. During the down time, the site will not be accessible to the public until these changes are done.
Once the changes are done, you may noticed some existing features acting glitchy. Just report them and leave 'em be for now -- they will be fixed.
These changes are necessary so that we can provide new systems and features to the site, so please bear with us. Your accounts will not be touched in any way =3
Posted by *Yasu
(#3410) on Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:54pm
Tiny reminder!
Site Update
Just an itty, bitty tiny reminder to you all!
If you ever submitted user-predicts for babies at all in the past,
send in your PSDs for those offspring that were accepted!
We generally clear out the four PSDs sent in after they've all been cleared
for upload (because they take up a lot of space) so be sure you email to
[email protected] the files for the offspring you did receive, with the
appropriate ID that it was born with. This will help for any and all offspring
that the artists make in the future.
PSDs that you send in for user-predicts are actually only used in cases that I
have to fix offspring before uploading.
Thank you!
Posted by Ash
(#90) on Mon Jan 17, 2011 4:28pm
Hybrid Stone
Items
Got a new item for you!
Hybrid Stone
This item functions the same as the genus amulet, but for hybrids. It will allow you to recolor a hybrid into another hybrid. This should help if you like new hybrid genuses better or need a specific genus for something.
You can find it in the BP Shop for 3,000,000 BP.
Five random people who post on this news post in the next hour will win one of these items.
EDIT! winrars:
Rathey (#5758)
Usiku (#3098)
Paragon (#4308)
Red Cape (#209)
Balthazar (#10860)
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:04pm
Raffle #3 has ended
Items
Congratulations
Metal Breeding Pendant
Bowhuntress (#6088) is the winner of the raffle and won the item Metal Breeding Pendant!
Bowhuntress (#6088) brought 1 tickets, spending 1 GP!
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Sun Jan 16, 2011 2:24am
More on the Bumble
Pets
This pet is in fact the bi-monthly limited (Raw Custom Crystal) pet. That particular coloration is in the BP Shop for 100k.
PSD: https://www.aywas.com/forum/topic/78837/
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Sat Jan 15, 2011 12:12pm
SCAV
Site Update
The new Limited pet, the Bumble, brings you...
MINI SCAV 2011!!
Pets and Customs
[25] Own 250 customs or more among all team members.
[50] Have every single official coloration among all team members.
[15] Zap an SCC pet with Rogue's Zap feature.
[5] One team member owns a Skyfrost Melo.
[15] Use a Hybrid Potion on a site coloration.
[15] Explore for every coloration in the Bridge. Must be newly caught.
[10] Catch fifty Ebony Melos among all team members.
[5] Create a custom and send it to a user not on your team (to keep).
[20] Create a SCC and send it to a user not on your team (to keep).
[10] Auction a 50% edited custom with a starting bid of 1 and a minimum increase of 1.
[15] One of each hybrid species customs among all team members
[15] Send 15 Legendary Rare or Admin Distributed pets to another user (one per user, not on your team) to keep.
[5] Create a BCC Insi custom.
[10] Bid 50,000 BP on ten different Pet Auctions
[10] Have a pet with a level 100 or more Fauna
[5] Send a user not on your team an Admin Distributed site pet they are missing from their lair.
[5] Find a custom who has spawned 30 or more offspring.
[5] BC breed for Cipulas
[5] Make a fairy themed custom
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245 Points
Items
[10] Discard an item from the GP shop worth 20 GP or more.
[5] Engage in a snowball fight with another team.
[25] Among team members, have over 10,000 of one item.
[10] Send a GP Shop custom crystal to a random user.
[50] Own one of every item, among team members (except unreleased or custom items).
[5] Send ten Candy Canes to Tak (#3).
[10] 100 Christmas Cupcaeks among all team members.
[15] Breed two of another user's pets (not on your team) using a breeding item for free. (eggs sent to them and they keep the offspring)
[10] 200 PUMPKIN HATS
[5] Use an unbreedable potion on a custom.
[10] Have 200 or more eggs under the Phoenix Tree (one user).
[5] Donate 1 GP to a user not on your team. (to keep)
[5] Donate 200,000 BP to a user not on your team. (to keep)
[5] Complete set of Spheres
[10] Complete set of Aywas npc plushes
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180 points
Games
[10] One team member has 10,000 or more trash points.
[15] Score of 500 or more on hangman.
[25] Slots jackpot
[15] Jackpot on Millionare Melo scratch card.
[10] Score over 50,000 on Grave Robber
[5] Win Xero's Pet Research (first to show him the pet)
[5] Have something thrown at you by Kaz in Kaz&Shoe
[10] Have a pet over level 250 in Cooking
[25] Xero streak of 150 or more.
[5] Receive any prize from a scratch card.
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125 points
Writing
[50] Write an Aywas-related novel (set in Ay), 50,000 words.
[5] Write a 2,500-word story about what happens at the Standing Stones. (it's magic, doofies)
[10] Write a 5,000-word story involving all the following: Custom Crystal, exploding fish, Sandwiches (aywas style)
[5] Write a 100-word scene that includes the words: delicious, Lunaris, porcupine, lump.
[5] Why are Berry Nuts teal? (response minimum 250 words)
[5] What's on those blue cds? (response minimum 250 words)
[10] What ingrediants are used in a Swirly Shake? (response minimum 250 words)
[5] Why is there light shining from a Santas bag? (response minimum 250 words)
[10] Write a poem/song about the aywas genuses (ALL OF THEM!)
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105 points
Art
[5] Draw a "repose" of an aywas genus.
[10] Draw a paneled comic- what happens when a Hybrid Potion is used?
[10] Create an edited design, make 10 premades from it, and give them away for free on the forums.
[5] Pretend you're an RBC artist and make predicts for a mutant breeding between two of your pets.
[5] Recolor a site coloration onto a different pet genus.
[15] If you drew one chimeric creature to represent the staff team, what would it look like?
[5] Create an SCC species design. Release the lineart and shading PSD for free use.
[10] Draw a custom clothing set for a Human Avatar.
[5] Design a new hybrid
[5] Photomanip your pet cat or dog to look like one of your customs
[5] Create a size chart for how big you think the genuses are compared to each other
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80 points
Creation/Baking/etc
[10] Create a Breeding Pendant IRL.
[5] Explore, with a RL pet, in the ARCTIC!
[25] Sew a plush of an Aywas coloration or character.
[10] Bake a cake and ice the Aywas (and crystal) logo on it.
[5] Make a Chiro using only pizza.
[5] Make a Quetzal using only bacon.
[25] Create a diorama of an Explore region using food (the shoebox is okay).
[30] Make an Aywas blanket
[10] Paint the ceiling something aywas related
[10] Post on Twitter: "#Aywas is eating my life"
[15] Sculpt an Awesome Potion. Paint it too.
[10] Albino Titbird Sculpture. Painted.
[25] Create a Blue Shard.
[5] A Box Fish hanging off a fishing pole.
[10] Make a BC Candy Necklace...made of toilet paper.
[10] Sway Sculpture made of fruit
[5] Spell aywas across the floor using quarters
[5] Write Aywas in a steamy piece of glass (like a mirror after a shower)
[10] Make a snow sculpture that looks like a Soli
[5] Spell aywas using cooked noodles
[5] Explore for Vion Seeds outside (any berries would do)
[10] Bake some Breeding Coin cookies!
[5] Spider Soup
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255 points
Misc.
[15] Create a project outline for a major feature like Breeding or Customs that both benefits the user and encourages the user to spend site currency.
[5] Dress up a human avatar like an NPC.
[25] Program, in VB or C++ or another similar non-web based language, an "Aywapedia" that functions on someone's computer and not the internets.
[25] Program, in PHP, a script that allows someone to input a custom's image and check off breeding keywords (eg: wings, blue, melo, scary), then a search function that lets someone search the inputted customs by key word
[5] Make a monochromatic human avatar
[5] Match your human avatar's clothes, your active pet, and the region background colorwise.
[5] Have every team member wear a "Team Avatar" (still get points if the glitch affects you, just document it)
[10] Help another team
[10] Have every team member send a message to a user (not the same person) not on your team telling them why they are a valuable community member.
[5] Photograph one of the aywas plushes in your posession with a pet
[5] Put an aywas related image behind a fish or reptile tank so it looks like the pet is exploring
[10] Call a pizza place and ask if you can get shit take mushrooms on your pizza (record this)
[5] Call a pet store and ask them if they sell aywas (or an aywas genus) (record) (bonus 5 points if you ask if Xero works there)
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130 points
TOTAL POINTS: 1120
Get working!
Posted by Jack
(#1) on Sat Jan 15, 2011 12:02am
Xaoc Results
Contests
And the results are in!
First up is the Holiday Wishlist Contest results.
You guys made judging this so incredibly difficult because all of the entries were an absolute blast to read. Some made me laugh, others were truly touching, and a few even made me cringe at my screen. Even though the requirements were pretty bare bones, a lot of people went over the top and added pictures, made graphic lists or wrote in a dialect, so I really appreciated those little twists. Thank you very much to everyone who entered! I hope you guys enjoyed this one. :3
Without further ado, here are our winners!
Grand Prize Winner - TheApostleJudas (#10345)
Wishlist
I really got a character feel from this itinerary and am anxious to see this Xaoc come to life! The wishes seemed raw, varied and personal, creating a very telling list--exactly what I was looking for.
Highlights:
2. A high silk hat, because I'm just debonair like that.
12. A visit from my good friend Mary Jane. Mehehehe.
17. For the word 'smarticles' to be added to the dictionary.
Second Place - Maple F. (#5783)
Wishlist
I loved how succinctly this piece was put together. Though it reads like poetry, the writing does not detract from the core of the list, but actually enhances it; there's a lot of insight packed into each word.
Highlights:
10) To hear a kind word, instead of: "flee-bitten cur".
13) A friend by my side, to hold back the madness.
14) And another friend, too, to fight off the sadness.
Third Place - CaptainLunchbox (#2021)
Wishlist
This list immediately seemed otherworldly to me for some reason and kept me intrigued to the end!
Highlights:
1. Blueprints of a revolutionary aircraft.
8. Slugs of all colors. Especially bright blue ones. Those are really lovely.
9. A Dachshund named Sloushy.
Fourth Place - Rocket Jayy (#4224)
Wishlist
Another one dripping with character, but even more so with emotion. For some reason, this was one of the most memorable lists!
Highlights:
3. A dollie with dark hair. I've heard these were beautiful.
5. Vine wallpaper. Literally, vines streaming up my walls with all the prickly thorns exposed!
14. A membership to the nearby theatre. I've always wished to attend the plays there.
Fifth Place - Araxa (#1117)
Wishlist
I could easily picture this Xaoc's entire world and was completely drawn in!
Highlights:
4. A magical bird that can speak for me because I am so veryvery shy.
5. A set of stag antlers that I can wear on my head (only if the stag if finished with them, though).
12. Some pots of lotions and ointments for when my woodland friends get injured.
Congratulations! If you haven't had a chance to read through all the entries, I encourage you to do so when you've got a couple spare moments because they really are phenomenal!
Normally we only have one Xaoc contest every three months, but for the holidays we added a Bonus Art Contest with a holiday spirit theme. I had so much fun looking over these and was really happy to see so many clever takes on the prompt!
Here are the winners for the art contest:
Grand Prize Winner - Nao [ouo] (#285)
Peasant Boy Xaoc dressed for the holiday season.
My take on Holiday spirit where everyone comes around to celebrate Christmas regardless of social status.
Nao had several adorable entries but there was something poignant about this guy. Not only is he done beautifully, but the concept behind him is the kind of holiday spirit that I think we could all do with more of.
Second Place - God (#4)
Ghost of Christmas Xaoc
A literal snowy spirit! The smooth edits and subtle coloring really made this one stand out.
Third Place - Reese n Dani (#964)
Mecha Christmas Angel
I really enjoyed the idea behind this one and love the glowing accents!
Fourth Place - FruityToaster (#10986)
Reindeer Xaoc
One of the most notable animal spirits of the holiday season. I absolutely love the snout and texturing!
Fifth Place - Ellie-TEAM AWESOME (#804)
Holiday Spirit Xaoc
This Xaoc is definitely sporting some holiday spirit with its candycane garb! Bravo on the coloring and getting things to shine just right.
Congratulations and thanks to everyone for entering!
Prizes
Grand Prize Winners receive Xaoc Customs.
2nd - 5th places for both contests get to pick from the following prize pot (2nd place claims first, 3rd claims next, etc.):
10 SP
25 GP
Custom Item Package OR Blue Custom Crystal
Genus Changing Amulet OR Metal Breeding Coin
I will be contacting all of the winners shortly about their prizes! The Xaoc that's created for our wishlist contest winner will be introducing the next contest, which is coming up in March, so keep your eyes out for that!
I hope everyone is ready for scav! 8D
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Fri Jan 14, 2011 6:33pm