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Free Custom Winners!

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Winners Edition!

And our lucky new custom owners are...

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DiversedLion (#44504) | 74 votes..................StormChaser (#37966) | 51 votes..................fairyneko(Rose) (#17647) | 236 votes

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Magma NyctiCorax (#1965) | 62 votes..................Neon (#2294) | 299 votes..................Meenah (#6709) | 223 votes

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Harrisheart (#25060) | 35 votes..................Kaitou KID (#9617) | 100 votes..................Zeodyme (#13865) | 130 votes

Congratulations! You'll be seeing these pretties show up in your lairs soon. :3 Thanks for playing!

- Eri

Posted by Eri & -- (#17) on Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:20pm

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Weekly Raffle

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Weekly Raffle

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This week's raffle winner is:
Colin (#10736)
Who had a staggering 117 crystals out of 29,663 total and won a Miniature Phoenix Tree!

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Congratulations!

Next week's winner will receive...

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A very rare and very special Speedy Breeding Ticket!
This item replaces the Speedy Breeding voucher and moves your breeding to the front of the queue!

Keep an eye out for the voucher exchange service we're going to be announcing soon (for this item, Metal Lunaris vouchers, Neura vouchers, and more)!

A new set of Trivia questions is on the way; I'll make an announcement when they've been switched out.

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Quick Public Service Announcement!

My inbox always gets hit with a major avalanche every December and it takes me a bit longer than my typical 3-day response time to dig myself out. Rest assured, though my inbox is something of a black hole, it did not eat your PM! It's there, and I'll get to it asap. :3 For any urgent requests you can send a new message with URGENT in the title and I will do my best to prioritize!

- Eri

Posted by Eri & -- (#17) on Wed Jan 9, 2013 9:36pm

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HA Contest Voting

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Here we are! Pick your favorite two by posting DESIGN #1 , DESIGN #2, etc



DESIGN #1 ....... DESIGN #2 ....... DESIGN #3



DESIGN #4 ...... DESIGN #5 ..... DESIGN #6



DESIGN #7 .... DESIGN #8 .... DESIGN #9

Posted by JAK (#15) on Wed Jan 9, 2013 4:50am

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Stormy days bring the adventure pets to stay!

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Sounds like a storm brewing in the distance... But it's bringing you some new adventure pets!

Actually maybe that storm was just the Arion being quite loud with its hooves.





If you want to design some Adventure pets, go and post them in their respective threads here! Remember, you can earn SP!

- Mauri

Posted by Kyu & Mauri (#1010) on Mon Jan 7, 2013 11:36pm

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Free Photoshop!

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EDIT- Well, it looks like this no longer applies. :( CS2 isn't being reported as free to download anymore.




Hi artists,

For those of you who aren't aware, Adobe just released Creative Suite 2 (which includes Photoshop) for free. Go read about it here.

It's an older version of their programs, but older is better than nothing, and it's FREE!

Go forth and make beautiful art!

Posted by JAK (#15) on Mon Jan 7, 2013 2:38pm

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Art Gallery

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Art Gallery

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The art gallery has been judged!
The theme was New Years Around the Aywas World and we were greeted with a batch of celebratory submissions welcoming in 2013!

Here are our featured winners:

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They won:

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Congratulations!

If you're wondering what that shiny item is, it's a Nova Custom Crystal.
As its description says, this special custom crystal allows you to create an uncommon Ay genus custom pet with up to 75% lineart edits. This item, along with its Orb counterpart, will be released into the shops for everyone very soon!

Now, back to the Art Gallery!
Our current theme is Oatmeal Creations in honor of January being National Oatmeal Month!
Plus, food-themed art galleries are always a huge hit. :3

Your goal is to create something Aywas-related out of oatmeal (any kind you want, cooked or raw). You may use other edible elements, but the oatmeal should be featured.

Here are the other upcoming themes!
January 13 - January 19: Vynes as Houseplants
January 20 - January 26: Bath time for Aywas pets!
January 27 - February 2: Puzzle Game

- Eri

Posted by Eri & -- (#17) on Sun Jan 6, 2013 8:54pm

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Radioactive Breeding Coin Moves Back!

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The Radioactive Breeding Coin has been put back in the premium shop at a bit of a lower price than it originally was. :)

The coin probably won't go back in the BP shop again. It was an interesting test but didn't accomplish what we had hoped. Thanks for your cooperation!

- Mauri

Posted by Kyu & Mauri (#1010) on Sat Jan 5, 2013 4:25pm

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Free Monthly Customs!

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It's time to give away nine free customs designed during December under the theme of Trees!
You guys did an awesome job of tackling this theme. :3

My family unfortunately had to get one of our trees taken down a few weeks ago, but the cool part is we counted the rings (as best as we could), and there were over 80! I wonder how old these Aywas creatures are...

To play the free custom game, please include the phrase "CUSTOM #__" in your news comment. For example, if you want Custom 1, please comment "CUSTOM #1."

Don't lose out on a chance to win one of these customs by voting incorrectly!

Custom One = bad.
Custom1 = bad.
Custom#1 = bad.
Custom #1 = good!
I love custom #1! = good!

Here we go!

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Please contact Visark (185) for your prize if you designed one of these customs!

You have until 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday the 8th to get your vote in!
ONE vote per account.

Good luck!

- Eri

Posted by Eri & -- (#17) on Sat Jan 5, 2013 11:39am

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Candy Cane Packages

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Afternoon, folks!

Apologies for my quietness this week--I attended a corporate event that somehow did not have WiFi.
Now I have an excuse to spam you with news posts all weekend. 8D

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The first item of business today is the Seasonal Shop.
Our plan was to offer some larger packages of Candy Canes to make Snowflake trading more efficient, but we ran into a snag with the premium discount. We found an option that I think will work better for next year, so this time around you'll have to do the exchange the old-fashioned way. :C

The good news is, we'll extend the shop deadline to January 6th at 11:59 p.m.!

Lots of other announcements to come!

- Eri

Posted by Eri & -- (#17) on Sat Jan 5, 2013 11:17am

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Welcome to January!

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Happy New Year!
Let's start this one off with a pet explosion. :3

Our New Year GP Shop pets are beaming with pride and are excited to usher in 2013!

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The New Year BP Shop pets are following close behind and glowing with hope!

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If you colored one of these stunning pets, please contact Visark (#185) for your payment!
Make sure to send the PSDs for these pets in to [email protected] right away! Or I will make fireworks out of your crayons.

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The Essence of January 2013 starts off a new year of flower-themed essences!
Use this snowdrop-inspired one on your active pet to change it into one of the January 2013 monthly pets.

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Meet the Oxen Lunaris!
If you have a January birthday, be sure to visit Aywas on your big day to take home this hardworking, warmhearted pet.

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The premium monthly item for January is the Mysterious Light Box. By using this item, you will unlock a gorgeous fireworks site theme! Here's a peek at the image:

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Doesn't get much prettier or more celebratory than fireworks over water at night!

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We also have our usual assortment of monthly contests!

February Monthly Pets - GP Shop

February Monthly Pets - BP Shop

February Monthly Customs: Mythology


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Coding Corner

We have a ton of awesome things planned for January and beyond!
Yasu and I are working on a mix of fixes and new surprises, so here's a little sneak peek at what you can look forward to:

- Tranqs and other uncoded items being assigned a use. This has been an ongoing priority for a long time, but you'll get to see a lot of the results soon! Tranqs are actually usable /in/ battle now, but we're still doing some tweaks.

- Related to the above, but also to user suggestions, we will be adding some awesome Adventure items. Two highlights are a Grappling Hook that'll help you jump ravines and a pretty sweet Vial of the Battle Soul that will swap pet stats.

- Restoring customization to pet descriptions/look-ups. We've already re-enabled a few codes, but we're not there yet!

- Turning vouchers into items & expanding custom makers. If you spied the Welcome Back page roughly a month ago, you probably saw a huge influx of new items that looked pretty snazzy. A decent portion of these items will be replacing vouchers (like for Neura breedings or metal Lunaris customs).

- The coveted Quick Stock feature should be released relatively soon.. if staff can stop finding ways to break it! XD

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What else can we toast to this month?

For starters, a new Ara location, a new Raw pet, hybrid season mid-month (so we can recover a little from the holidays!), and more!

In the spirit of fun things and fresh starts, why not share your 2013 Aywas Resolutions with us?

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I also wanted to take a quick moment to say thank you for sticking it out with me over the last year!
I couldn't ask for a better community to work for or a more creative, fun atmosphere to be in, and each of you contribute to this ambiance with your compassion, silliness, and talents. I am really looking forward to what we'll accomplish and enjoy together this year. It'll be a crazy ride, but I don't think we'd want it any other way. <3

Let's get ready to have an awesome year here on Aywas!

- Eri

Posted by Eri & -- (#17) on Tue Jan 1, 2013 4:25pm

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