p.s. nick and seth if either of you had any thing to do with this… give me some time to think of a plausble threat: A.) the nuce B.) burn you at the stake or C.) force you into 1000 years of hard labor working for me. plaese help me decide there fate

p.s. i can take them away at any point.

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8/30/10: Beta period begins

11/11/10: Pre-ordering becomes possible

11/11/10: 6-level demos are released to all pre-orderers

2/1/11: 12-level demos are released to all pre-orderers

2/1/11: 6-level demos are released to the public

4/1/11: 24-level demos are released to all pre-orderers

4/1/11: 12-level demos are released to the public

6/11/11: The game releases!

6/11/11: 24-level demos are released to the public

Note: All the 1s and 11s are in honor of our fallen original planned release, rest its soul.

Tip: Don’t watch this fullscreen. My lips look weird.

Braid Speed Run Time: 44:52.52.

YES.

1. Synapse Destroyer. These are the games that consist of no thinking, just mindless jumping or whacking things like a deranged lunatic. Like sports games.

2. Slight. These are the games that have puzzles, it’s just not part of the main mechanic. Nearly all Mario games go here.

3. Thinkers. These are where you are constantly faced with puzzles, usually ranging in difficulty. World of Goo would be an example.

At first Portal seems confusing and impossible, but once you get used to it, it moves to the high end of Level 3.

4. OH MY CRAP. There are some games that just seem to demand that you think, think, and keep on thinking. Also, these games steadfastly refuse to let your brain stop churning for one second. The obvious example, of course, would be Braid. (I got 52:11 on the speed run! YES!)

Then, there’s gameplay challenges, by which I mean: how hard is it to destroy the mustache? Is it so freaking impossible to make that jump between moving platform number 17 to number 18? Basically, how near are you driven to suicide?

1. Blank. In this, there are nearly no gameplay challenges. These are usually accompanied by Level 3/4 puzzles. Or Dora, of course.

2. A Little Bit. This is where there are a few challenges, but not too many.

3. Getting Hard. This is where Mario comes in to the gameplay aspect of challenge.

4. (suicide). This is where you keep trying, over and flippin’ over, to make the jump. If the game doesn’t have some great, addicting gameplay, it’s doomed. Think Bit.Trip Core.

And, then, there are the gamers, the most important part of gaming.

1. The Casual (35%). These people can be anybody from a middle-aged guy who occasionally plays a bit on the computer to an old lady. Generally, they’re all willing to try anything in the first two levels of anything and about half of them will venture into level three.

2. The Average (15%). These are the people who are fairly willing to try anything in the first three categories, and about half of the fourth.

3. The Hardcore (25%). Hardcore gamers will pretty much try any game, although not so much in the first category of gameplay.

4. The Puzzle Gamer (25%). Puzzle gamers will only play games with level 3/4 puzzles, and maybe the upper half of 2′s.

So, uh… I’m should make a chart, but it’s almost time for dinner… hm…

[please insert chart and conclusion here.]

“Thank you for your interest in Wizard101.

Products used in the making of Wizard101 are listed in the credits, which can be accessed from the Options menu in the game.

Wizard101 uses the Gamebryo Engine.
Our artists and designers use 3d Studio Max.
Our sound designers use Miles Sound System.

Our animators use the Open Dynamics Engine.

We also use several in-house developed proprietary tools for implementation.

For information on each of those products, please use a search engine to search for those individual companies.

See you in the Spiral!

~Professor Greyrose”

Awesome Right!? Anyway that’s all I had to say.

-Seth