The Details
What: KingsIsle at PAX West 2024
When: August 30th – September 2nd, 2024
Where: Seattle Convention Center (Seattle, Washington), Booth #745
Demo Ravenwood Academy: A Wizard101 Story
Be one of the first people to get a sneak peek at our new upcoming game – Ravenwood Academy: A Wizard101 Story! Everyone who plays through the demo will receive a FREE exclusive Ravenwood Academy branded light up LED wand (while supplies last). Please note that this demo will be a very early alpha look at the game, things will continue to take shape as time passes and the game gets closer to launch!
While you wait, don’t forget to wishlist Ravenwood Academy: A Wizard101 Story on Steam >>
In addition to demoing Ravenwood Academy for the very first time, we’ll also be selling exclusive convention merch, bringing back older (now unavailable) plushies, and have a couple of opportunities for community members to meet the devs behind their favorite games.
Merch Being Sold at the Booth:
- Magical Mystery Item – $50
- Exclusive Wizard101 Piggle Pin (Pinny Arcade) – $20.00
- Ninja Pig Shirt – $25.00
- Vinyl Figures – $30.00
- Merle Ambrose
- Malistaire Drake
- Jumbo Plush – $35.00
- Bartleby
- Gobbler King
- Standard Plushies – $30.00
- Gamma
- Piggle
- Fire Cat
- Bonnie Anne
- Grandmother Raven
- Old One
Join the fun from home!
From August 28th – September 3rd, you’ll be able to purchase the $10.00 PAX West 2023 Swag Bundle along with the $5.00 PAX West 2023 Piggle Pin Housing Item in Wizard101’s online cart!
The PAX West 2023 Swag Bundle includes the following in-game items:
- Ninja PAX Cap
- Ninja PAX T-Shirt
We’re SO looking forward to meeting up with so many new and existing Wizards and Pirates!
Join our team for a very special charity livestream on June 20th at 5 PM CDT / 12 AM CEST! All money raised during the stream will be donated to Outright International.
We can’t wait to celebrate Pride Month this year with all of you on the show! Every year our team loves to hear your stories and are humbled to know how much of a positive impact Wizard101 and Pirate101 have made on your lives. We look forward to continuing to build upon that positive impact this year by making our games and community as inclusive and safe places they can be. Let’s celebrate that inclusiveness on the show!
Details
What: Pride Charity Livestream
When: Thursday, June 20th at 5 PM CDT / 12 AM CEST
Where: KingsIsle Entertainment Twitch Page
Why: To raise money for Outright International
To make this our biggest charity event yet, we’ve increased the goal. We’ll be raffling off some sweet prizes (check out this year’s new additions below!), and have an action-packed stream schedule.
Charity Stream Raffle
If you donate to the cause during the livestream, you’ll be entered into a raffle for some amazing prizes. The more you donate, the more raffle tickets you’ll receive. Therefore, the more chances of winning you’ll have! The raffle ticket tiers are as follows:
- Level 1: $25 – 5 Total Raffle Entries
- Level 2: $50 – 10 Total Raffle Entries
- Level 3: $75 – 15 Total Raffle Entries
- Level 4: $100 – 20 Total Raffle Entries
- Level 5: More than $100 – 20 Raffle Entries per every Additional $100
- $200 = 40 Total Raffle Entries
- $300 = 60 Total Raffle Entries
- Etc…
Note: These tiers are NOT additive. For example, if you donate $1 twice, you’ll still only have 1 raffle ticket entry. Likewise, if you donate $1 early in the stream and $24 later in the stream, your 1 raffle ticket entry will turn into 5 total, not 6. The numbers above represent total raffle ticket entries depending on how much you donate throughout the stream.
Raffle Prizes
Fantastic causes mean incredible prizes!
- Top Donor Prize – Plushie of Your Choice (can be Rainbow Plushie)
- Raffle Prizes:
- Plushie of Your Choice (can be Rainbow Plushie, winner cannot be Top Donor)
- Free 12M Membership to either game
- 100,000 Crowns
- 60,000 Crowns
- 30,000 Crowns
- Special Unreleased Bundle (will be released in summer, you get it end-June!)
- Floating Lands Resort Bundle
- Polarian Explorer’s Bundle
- Halloween House from last year
- Fairy Kai Packs
- 10,000 Crowns
- 5,000 Crowns
The Top Donor will be announced at the end of the livestream with raffle prize winners being contacted with their prizes in the couple of weeks after the livestream.
Milestone Unlocks
If we reach the following raised amounts, we will give out or do the following:
- $500: 1-Day Chromaticat/Prismaticat Mount with chance of a permanent
- $1,000: Large Rainbow Bridge and Rainbow Banner
- $1,500: 7-Day Rainbow Roller Mount with chance of a permanent
- $3,000: Sparck will get his nails done Pride style, and Hawkules will get a real 101 tattoo!
There’s a limit of 500 of each in-game item, so be sure to redeem the code you see right away!
If you donate at least $10 and post a comment in the donation field, throughout the show we will read these statements on air! Disclaimer: we will NOT read your statement if it’s not appropriate to do so and reserve the right to pass on others due to time and other constraints.
Stream Schedule
Note: Stream schedule is tentative and subject to change.
5 PM – Introductions + About the Stream
Introductions and explanation of how the stream will work. We’ll briefly go over the charities involved and show off this year’s new Pride charity raffle prizes.
~5:15 PM – Chat with Outright International
Outright International will be on the stream to chat with us and the community!
~5:45 PM – KingsIsle Team Chat
A special guest from the KingsIsle team (hint: what makes the game quests feel alive with history and lore?) will be joining us. Watch this segment to find out what they are going to talk about!
~6 PM – Pirate101 and Wizard101 Gameplay
Hanging out in Pirate101 (Illios spawn party) and Wizard101 (see Genevieve Moongarden for a house party we’ll be at), meeting new players and celebrating Pride Month together!
We also have planned a Mega-Mashup of our Extra Credits community content to share!
It’s going to be a fun time! We hope you join us for a great cause!
About Outright International
Outright International works together for better LGBTIQ lives. OUTRIGHT.
Outright is dedicated to working with partners around the globe to strengthen the capacity of the LGBTIQ human rights movement, document and amplify human rights violations against LGBTIQ people, and advocate for inclusion and equality.
Founded in 1990, with staff in over a dozen countries, Outright works with the United Nations, regional human rights monitoring bodies and civil society partners. Outright holds consultative status at the United Nations where it serves as the secretariat of the UN LGBTI Core Group.
Pride Month begins tomorrow! As we have in years past, we’d like to take this time to partner with Outright International for Pride Month as part of their Outright Proud Initiative!
While we’ve made a lot of progress towards acceptance of LGBTIQ+ in the past few years, we still have a long way to go. The LGBTIQ+ community continues to face discrimination on a daily basis worldwide. It’s tough knowing that many of our employees and players experience these hardships just because of who they are and how they identify themselves. Since we are a gaming company responsible for creating immersive experiences that bring people from all walks of life together, we can and want to help forge safe spaces not only in our game and community, but outside of those places too.
Keep reading to find out about all of the items that will help fund this year’s donation!
The Pride Pets Bundle and Rainbow Roller Mount have Returned!
Wizard101’s piggle and Pirate101’s hoggle are once again sporting their most colorful styles to celebrate Pride Month. They’re the perfect match if you want to represent your pride in-game while also receiving some combat assistance at the same time. The Wizard101 Pride Piggle Pet and the Pirate101 Pride Hoggle Pet can be purchased together in the Wizard101 and Pirate101 online carts as the Pride Pets Bundle through the end of June. All proceeds from the sale of this Pride Pets Bundle will go to Outright International.
Courageously colorful and full of life, the Rainbow Roller Mount is back for its third consecutive year! All proceeds from the sales of this mount will be donated to Outright International. You can find the Rainbow Roller Mount in the online cart. Purchasing it will give you the mount in both Wizard101 and Pirate101! This mount is only available to purchase during Pride Month, so don’t miss out on supporting this amazing cause!
New Rainbow Ninja Pig Plushie and Pride Pals Pin Pack!
Celebrate Pride with your favorite pals!
The Ninja Pig has traded his sword and sweatbands for something more colorful! This special edition Rainbow Ninja Pig Plushie has blue glow-in-the-dark eyes and waves his Pride Flag high! This Pride Month plushie is made in partnership with Makeship and is now available through the end of June. Every Rainbow Ninja Pig Plushie comes with an in-game Rainbow Ninja Pig Plushie Housing Item to match!
The Rainbow Piggle and Rainbow Ninja Pig have been transformed into a perfect pin set! With a sturdy bronze-backing, these pins are ready to bring the power of pride wherever you go! The Pride Pals Pin Set is made in partnership with Makeship and is now available through the end of June.
Pair both the Rainbow Ninja Pig Plushie and the Pride Pals Pin Pack for 10% off your order at Makeship!
50% of the profits for both the Rainbow Ninja Pig Plushie and the Pride Pals Pin Set will be donated to Outright International.
The KingsIsle Store 2024 Pride Collection!
Celebrate Pride Month 2024 with a rainbow of Wizard101 and Pirate101 Official Pride Merchandise through the month of June!
Shop the adorable Rainbow of Piggles Collection, which was designed by one of our very own game artists exclusively for this release! But you won’t want to wait to snag these colorful items – Pride designs are sure to return next year, but may not be offered in the same colors or on the same products.
A portion of the proceeds from this limited-time collection will be donated to Outright International.
About Outright International
Outright International works together for better LGBTIQ lives. OUTRIGHT.
Outright is dedicated to working with partners around the globe to strengthen the capacity of the LGBTIQ human rights movement, document and amplify human rights violations against LGBTIQ people, and advocate for inclusion and equality.
Founded in 1990, with staff in over a dozen countries, Outright works with the United Nations, regional human rights monitoring bodies and civil society partners. Outright holds consultative status at the United Nations where it serves as the secretariat of the UN LGBTI Core Group.
With Pride,
The KingsIsle Team
We’re happy to announce that Leah Ruben, aka “Professor Falmea”, that you all know and love from KI Live’s, Producer’s Letters, and so much more over 16 years now at KingsIsle, has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer!
“I’m excited to accept the promotion to KingsIsle’s Chief Operating Officer. Yesterday, it was also my 16th anniversary with the company, I joined in 2007 as an Associate Producer. I remember moving halfway across the country to work on an unknown game called Wizard101 and was hooked instantly with how approachable yet deeply FUN it was, even back then.
It’s been my privilege to grow with KI through the production and direction ranks, and watch those around me grow as well. That’s the neat thing when your coworkers stick around for 10+ years, not only do you get to watch them grow professionally, but also see them get married, have children, and those Wizard launch year babies are now in high school. It’s also been incredible to see our community grow up themselves, graduate college, and come work with us.
The last few years have been especially incredible. After gamigo acquired us, our first goal was stability, and while we never quit this one, we can now say with confidence that we’re pretty good at it. These have been some of KingsIsle’s best yet, and that’s crazy cool to say when your stable of games is two MMOs that launched over a decade ago. We’ve done this by pushing the design and narrative boundaries of “kids’ games”, and we’re continuing to do it by exploring new platforms like launching Pirate101 on Steam last month. In the coming years, we will explore more opportunities to innovate. There are some intriguing things in the R&D lab and even more in the think tank. Exciting times are ahead. Stay tuned.
On a personal note, I recognize that women as studio heads and in C-level positions are still all too rare. I’m thankful for the support of both gamigo and KingsIsle where my gender isn’t even a factor. In return for the voice that I have been given, as a company, we value collaboration and ideation at every level and strive to have as many different voices in the room as we can. May we all make magic together for many decades more!”
Leah “Professor Falmea” Ruben
Chief Operating Officer
KingsIsle Entertainment
Congratulations, Leah, on being here for us and the community for so many years!
For the first time in years, we’re so excited to announce that KingsIsle will have an official booth presence at a major gaming convention! Get ready PAX West, here we come!
The Details
What: KingsIsle at PAX West 2023
When: September 1st-4th, 2023
Where: Seattle Convention Center (Seattle, Washington), Booth #745
We’re primarily going to PAX West to introduce Wizard101 and Pirate101 to potential new players, but that doesn’t mean existing players will miss out! In addition to offering PAX West exclusive KingsIsle merch, we’ll also be selling older (now unavailable) plushies, and have a couple of opportunities for community members to meet the devs behind their favorite games.
Merch Being Sold at the Booth:
- Exclusive Wizard101 Piggle Pin (Pinny Arcade) – $20.00
- Exclusive PAX West Ninja Pig Shirt – $25.00
- Merle Ambrose Vinyl Figure – $30.00
- Gobbler King Jumbo Plush – $35.00
- Standard Plushies – $30.00
- Gamma
- Piggle
- Diego the Duelmaster
- Ninja Pig
- Bonnie Anne
- Grandmother Raven
- Irk
Make sure to start planning your trip if you want to stop by and say hello! We’re SO looking forward to meeting up with so many new and existing Wizards and Pirates.
Join the fun from home!
From September 1st-4th, you’ll be able to purchase the new $10.00 PAX West 2023 Swag Bundle along with the new $5.00 PAX West 2023 Piggle Pin Housing Item in Wizard101’s online cart!
The PAX West 2023 Swag Bundle includes the following in-game items:
- Ninja PAX Cap
- Ninja PAX T-Shirt
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