Chronicles of the Principii

Developers' Journal

Alpha has begun!

Posted on: July 15th, 2013 by Ophelia the Inspired

Whew! What a crazy, exciting week it has been here at Mage Faire Studios! Alpha officially began July 8th. We invited the first 50 people in and so far you all have been giving us great feedback! Even though there is no magic yet, we have all had fun jumping, dancing, chatting, exploring and puppeteering together! It has been great seeing so many of you at the Faire. We have worked hard to build a beautiful and fun place for mages to enjoy. Seeing actual players in the Faire has been a dream come true! Apprecio!

If you were not invited this time, be on the look out! In the coming weeks we will be sending out the next group of invites before any more features are added. Our plan is to add people in 50 or 100 at a time to see how much our servers can handle.

Our alpha forums are also up and running. Though they caused quite a few headaches before they were launched, they have become a nice haven for players to sound off about various bugs, feature requests and screen shots of fun times.

We look forward to seeing more of you over the coming weeks!

26 Responses

  1. JW says:

    You all have definitely succeeded in making a beautiful place that is already magical (with or without magic)!

    Fingers crossed for strong servers that can handle all the eager mages waiting to get in the Faire.

  2. Seren_the_Fantasist says:

    You have created a beautiful place for us to call Home. There are no words to express how grateful I am to have this place. Long may it live! Apprecio!!

  3. Mage says:

    Thank you in full text.(should say it loudly enough),fun fun and meeting the avi`s from the older Game Glitch, seems like they all were so connected and very nice to play with. Hoping to meet many more nice gamers here for chat and fun zip lining to-gether along with learning magic. You all ( The Dev`s )have made a beautiful fun place to come each day.

  4. Vivienne says:

    Congrats with your first surge of Alpha … wishing all the very best and thinking positive thoughts about strong servers so more of us can join in 😀

  5. GreyGoose says:

    Congrats on first week of Alpha. You have a group of terrific testers (waves at JW, mdf). I hope I’m in the first batch when you are ready for the Mac users. Onwards and upwards!

  6. BribAnnie says:

    Congratulations! I wish I were with you but maybe next time. It seems as though things are going well and the testers are having a wonderful time. See you “soon”!

  7. Distantstar says:

    Congratulations…Waiting anxiously to join you all.

  8. MisAdventure says:

    I hear it is amazing from my friends in the first batch…please don’t forget us Mac folks. We are very loyal!

  9. NuhSqueezin' says:

    Hello, I’m a old Glitch player. I dropped by seeing this place has Alpha started! This game sounds great, very happy that Alpha started before I’d think it’d be here. I hope the nice people that I’ve met from Glitch can keep this place friendly, since all the other games I’ve played usually had a ton of trolls and mean players.

    I don’t think my computer can handle MageFaire, but I’ll try it anyway once I have the chance to.

  10. Breezy says:

    Congratulations on starting Alpha. Thank you for creating a beautiful world for those of us who wish to play a non-violent game. I look forward to more amazing graphics and to be able to link up with many familiar names from Glitch and FS as well as new friends.

  11. koolaroo says:

    Yay Alpha. As a old Glitch play it makes me excite to see another non-violent game. Hope I get in next wave.

  12. 1padme_the_chanting_yogini says:

    Congratulations!!!!

  13. Rainy_the_Pluvious says:

    This is an AMAZing world you are creating! I’m so honored and thrilled to be a small part! 😀 I just know we’ll all make magic together soon!

  14. Johanna - Cantarea says:

    Lots of lost Glitchens seem to Queue at the door, witing for a funtastic non-violent magical world to open up for them again – I’m really looking forward to meeting old friends again.

  15. Mistress*of*Fishies says:

    Huzzah! I see lots of old friends on the list here and I cannot wait for the change to get in an regroup in a lovely world!

  16. Miss Melody_The Temptress says:

    Congratulations on the first week of Alpha. I am waiting for my chance to join in the fun.

  17. ~Alice~ says:

    W00t!! Congratulations!

    Alpha has begun, how auspicious (Glitch reference, couldn’t resist heh). Can’t wait to meet with old friends here in another awesome game : )

  18. SugarPlum says:

    I sure hope the invite is in the mail soon. I am so excited to have another adventure to discover. Can’t wait to see old friends and make new ones!

  19. Crumpet says:

    HI, I have been out of circuit as I have had back surgery (spinal fusion L4-5and S-1)and am finally home. I hope you hadn’t tried to contact me?? HUGS and so much excitement for your product release into Alpha. God Bless and I am hanging out the door to see what all happens further! Carole

  20. Baybi_Mage says:

    I was baybi in Glitch. I am looking forward to meeting up with ole Glitchen and making new friends. Yay! Let the magic begin…..

  21. shadowdiana says:

    I see a lot of familiar names here…can’t wait to start!

  22. Kookiedoo says:

    Hoping this game will fill the Glitch-shaped hole! Looking forward to playing 🙂

  23. Alanna the Unflappable says:

    Another wave of alpha testers have been invited!

  24. Fstra says:

    I’m waiting!

  25. NeonTetra says:

    I am so happy to be a part of the first wave and am so looking forward to more players joining us. The world is a dizzying colourful wonderful place and can’t wait to see what magic lies in store for us with the next groups coming in. Looking forward to chatting with you all!

  26. vicki says:

    wish I was part of the first wave ..but no such luck for me…have a broke foot now so hoping to get invites soon. congrats……and great going….