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Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Fri Jun 26, 2015 8:37pm
Pride Month - Celebrate!
Site Update
We are so happy to have woken up to this grand moment in history!
The US Supreme Court has ruled for marriage equality in all of the United States. YEAH!!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Fri Jun 26, 2015 12:22pm
The PWA Update is FINALLY DONE!
Site Update
If you remember back when we hired our new April programmer, we had first embarked on the task of updating the deprecating Amazon payment scripts with our main programmer. Essentially, Amazon decided to completely get rid of their old payment system and move to a new one, which is fairly normal for payment processors (you saw it happen with Google Wallet, for instance).
Unfortunately it seemed like we hit EVERY SINGLE snag along the way. Feedback from our main programmer indicated that the new Amazon payment system was very poorly documented, confusing to implement, and their support team wasn't exactly much help with solving problems.
It has seriously taken some three months to get to this point... but... we have FINALLY gotten this finished!
Apologies, as you may have noticed that the original Amazon method of purchasing (the previous one) died a couple of days ago. They actually canceled it on June 1 but let us process payments a bit longer because we were having so much trouble getting the new one implemented. But now it works with the new system, "Pay With Amazon."
To celebrate finally getting over this ridiculously difficult hurdle, let's see what we have!
Blue Species Crystal
$25
This item will allow you to upload a 50% edited SCC pet (from any species that has been founded). Please put a link to the Silver Database Entry for the species when you submit a pet with this item within the comments. Obviously, you need to either own the species, or have bought a PSD use.
The staff are in the process of discussing raising the breeding limit for SCCs up to 50% difference. We will let you know what our decision is when we come to a consensus. If you would like to share your feedback about raising the limit, please do so in the comments.
For every $5 you spend until the 26th at 11:59 PM, you will get a Mystery Box Ticket. The Mystery Box isn't funding anything new, but it feels great celebrating for getting over a three month programming hurdle. It'll be very useful for paying all of these recent artist raises, though!
These are automatic for GP purchases, but if you buy USD Items, pm me with the total amount spent and what you got, and I'll send you the tickets.
Now that the Amazon hurdle is out of the way, these little guys can finally get some programming time! We're hoping to have them ready soon. It's been hard trying to get to them, but at least we don't have that huge payment coding issue in the way anymore.
They actually have a small "quest" feature associated with them, and we hope that you find it enjoyable. It will make creating custom Sevryns a little more interesting than the average pet species.
This odd looking creature will be getting its own feature soon, too...
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Wed Jun 24, 2015 3:12pm
Pride - Update 3!
Site Update
"Hey, hey! Look over here! I got in some more stuff for you to buy! but this time, I'm only taking mochi, because those are so, so tasty..."
The final round's currency is the Pride Mochi Packet! You can use these items to trade in for Event Shop content, or you can save them until after the event and open them into little Mochis (collectibles). Your choice!
This round, you can get a trunk of many different colored wings to celebrate your favorite identity.
There's also a box of sparkles that'll give you lots of sparkly backgrounds for your HA!
There's a lot of great items in the shop this time, so why not go take a peek?
Be sure to check out all the great pets - and some of them have very educational descriptions that you can check out in the Aywapedia.
Were you bummed to only have two Pride Candles? The Pride Candle is hanging out in the USD Shop for $5.00 so you can collect any other Teos you happen to desire. It'll leave the shop on the 1st, so act fast if you want one.
Who's excited for the 30th, the finale of the event? Get ready to open sticker packets and mochi boxes, and some other cool stuff for the final part of Pride Month!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Mon Jun 22, 2015 8:38pm
Art Gallery
Contests
The art gallery has been judged!
The theme was Summer Vacation and we received some entries that make me jealous of everyone on vacation!
Here are our featured winners:
They won:
Congratulations!
The current theme is Pet Proposals*!
Show us how an Aywas proposal would look and feel free to get creative. :3 Any medium is acceptable.
As a starred (*) theme, you can enter this contest even if you've won recently or plan on entering upcoming themes.
Official Aywas stock is permitted for this theme.
Good luck!
As a quick aside, I am finishing up a big move IRL and just got a new laptop and finally got my Internet hooked up. Let me tell you, folks, it is a scary world out there without it. ;~;
But in all seriousness, I'll be doing a lot of catch up and answering messages over the next few days. :3 Thanks!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Mon Jun 22, 2015 8:09pm
Rock Custom Crystal
Pets
Vote for the next base!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:48pm
Pride Update
Site Update
Our Pride update is going to come tomorrow so you can have some more time collecting what's in the shop right now, and we have some more time to get all the new items and pets ready!
Be aware that the next shop's update is going to last until the event ends on the 30th and will be the final update for the shop. Something cool will likely come on the 30th to wrap up the event, though!
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sun Jun 21, 2015 8:04pm
Trivia & Weekly Raffle!
Site Update
This week's raffle winner is:
dawnreader (#66891)
Who had 16 crystals out of 23,052 total and won a Jeweled Rare Crystal!
We also pulled a second winner this week who took home a Jeweled Rare Crystal as well--Zee (#2765)!
Congratulations!
Next week's winner will receive...
A set of Warrior Trunks!
Set a reminder to snag those crystals!
Trivia
The trivia has been updated!
Last week's questions and answers revealed!
This lacer is only seen on the clearest of nights, far from any cities.
Galaxy
The Implove fauna was made by...
Prof Jamew (#2712)
The premium item for June will be reset on...
June 14th
These little ones will spread their rose like rear end to hide from predators!
Rose Walker Lasius
Who is the Jeweled Crystal artist for June?
Edina
Which of the following is not a HA set color for this month?
Dungeon
What item was in the Advent Calendar on June 2nd?
Pride Rose
When do Pride Roses lose their "power"?
July 1st
The Essence of June 2015 was inspired by...
iced tea
Which colorful fauna has animated sparkles?
The Rainbow
How many questions will you get correct this week?
Good luck!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Wed Jun 17, 2015 10:40pm
Pride Month - Update 2!
Site Update
Pride Month
The second update for the Pride Event is here, and the Event Shop is stocked with all sorts of new goodies!
The currency item for this round is called the Pride Stickers and they can be found in all the same places that the previous currency item could be found.
The extra fun part this update is the ability to unlock a huge number of forum titles. Pick up your favorite "shout" item from the Event Shop and activate it to get a forum title related to the item. Forum titles can be used in the Achievements section of User Settings.
A number of quite nice HA clothing sets are available in the Event Shop!
And, of course, let's not forget all the gorgeous pet designs!
This cute little item here is special and opens up into two Lovebird fauna items, which represent a wide array of orientations and genders.
How adorable are those? There might even be some more coming!
Some new Teos are available in the Semi-Custom Creator, so be sure to use that second Pride Candle to pick one up!
Remember that all of these goodies are going to be rotated out of the Event Shop at 11:59 PM on the 20th! Be sure to collect everything you want to get before then.
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sun Jun 14, 2015 2:20pm
Art Gallery
Contests
The art gallery has been judged!
The theme was Miokits* and we received some paw-fectly adorable entries!
Here are our featured winners:
They won:
Congratulations!
The current theme is Summer Vacation!
Any medium is acceptable. :3 This is a pretty broad theme, just make sure to keep it Aywas-related as always.
Official Aywas stock is not permitted for this theme.
Good luck!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sun Jun 14, 2015 12:33pm