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Tutorial TutorialSite Contest: 4/24/17
Congratulations to our Site Contest winner, Gwennafran! For earning the most Cheers on your Miranda's Going on Adventure entry to the Art Challenge, you'll receive the exclusive In the Spotlight Achievement and a Spotlight T-Shirt. A huge thank you to everyone who participated!
This week's contest is an Avatar! Check out the rules here and show your skills! This will be finishing off the month and starting in May we are going to try something a little different foe the next set of competitions.
Site Contest 4/17/17 Closed
Our weekly Site Contest is closed! Thank you to everyone who participated in our Challenge, as an entrant or a Cheering fan. We've collected the data on the entries and will be verifying the winners and deciding any ties over the weekend, so expect to see the winner announced next week on Monday.
Speaking of which, next week's Site Contest category will be an Avatar contest! There's no challenge this week, so show us the best look you've got!
April Event: Adventure?
My goodness, I.. I’m so honored by your support. Everyone has been so kind to me about this… I’ll truly miss Hope while I’m gone. I’ll never forget how much this all means to me! Goodbye, everyone!
Enchanted Forest… here we come! Enheduanna, I’m ready!
Feedback Forum: Newbies, Part 1
Hi, everyone! It's time for another request for feedback, alongside an explanation of what's going on behind the scenes at Mythmakers.
Our number of active users has slowly decreased from about 800 during the first "burst" when Open Beta began to about 200-300 this year. Though our small community is the most friendly and positive that I've ever been a part of, we need to get those numbers up in order to pay for our costs. From the last Forum, we identified one of the major issues, which was that the site was too confusing for new users.
So, our logged out homepage now has a gorgeous update for new visitors browsing the site! We tried to highlight the best parts of the site and emphasize what we believe are the best "hooks" to new visitors. I have also created a Tattered Weave History page with a counterpart on the Forums to explain past updates for any newbies who want to catch up on the story. Next week's update, Newbies, Part 2 will include a new interactive step-by-step Tutorial that should be easier to get through than our current version; plus Referred Rewards for new users who sign up with a Referral link.
Please take a look at these changes and let us know what you think! Is the logged out homepage compelling to you, or do you think it's missing something? Does the Tattered Weave History page cover the past lore well enough? Is there anything else you'd like to see that would help us get new users?
Once these changes are complete (including Part 2, coming soon) we intend to shift some of our programming costs into advertising. This does mean that we'll be slowing down our code updates for the foreseeable future. Tailoring will be finished in the next month or two, which should ease the difficulty of shopping in Tailored Fashions, but after that our updates will be limited to our HTML5 games and smaller site improvements.
We would also love to hear feedback on the idea of a subscription system. We would add this to the site by means of tracking your last purchase of Gems (and also offer ways to buy it as a gift for another user), and offering you access to premium-only bonuses for 30 days. This timestamp would renew every time you purchased Gems.
Some examples of these stacking premium bonuses would be:
100 Gems: Access to the Behind the Scenes Forum that was offered to our Kickstarter backers. Monthly polls on what art/writing to prioritize would be offered so you can make direct suggestions for certain art/writing to get done faster.
500 Gems: In addition, you get expanded Kith vocabulary across the site. Everywhere you see your Active Kith's dialog, you would get additional lines of dialog per Personality Type. For example, on the home page, you'd have 3 random lines of dialog instead of 1 static line of dialog.
1000 Gems: In addition, you get a bonus +1 Reputation per Daily Quest. That means catching up on missed days or vacations much faster!
2000 Gems: In addition, you get access to live streaming videos of our staff working on the site. I'm really not sure what content we'd offer - this is still very much in the planning phase!
5000 Gems: In addition, you get to design one Food, Book, Toy, or Quest item each month, which will be completed by our site artists.
Please keep in mind these are just ideas that we haven't decided on, and I'm looking for feedback specifically to determine what you'd be interested in seeing available in a subscription system!
New Hairstyles: Textured Curls
Put A Ringlet On It
You know with Miranda getting ready to leave for her adventure, I’ve been thinking about her hair a whole lot. I didn’t often get the chance to play with it, save when she came in to have her braids tightened after they managed to grow out. Thinking about it, I realized that the Salon doesn’t have that many options for textured hair. To rectify that I now have four new styles for you lovely people!
To start is the classic Afro Hairstyle. This is a medium sized one that is fairly manageable; it won’t deflate too easily but it does still take some maintenance to keep up the volume. Next is the Kinked Curls Hairstyle which you just can’t beat for stylish texture. It is the perfect look for those of you who might not be so fond of having your hair brushed to keep it’s form.
The adorable Ringlet Curls Hairstyle is a personal favorite of mine. It is such a sweet style, isn’t it? All that spring, all that lively movement! Sure it takes a while to put in, but that just means more time spent with me!
Speaking of time spent, I have an updated look for an old classic with the Afro Pompadour Hairstyle. It’s a lot easier to do than it might look so don’t let that scare you off from coming in for a new ’do!
In the interest of fairness to all of you with textured hair, I’ll be giving the Afro Hairstyle and Buzzcut Hairstyle in the five default hair colors for free to all new users. Please contact me with a Trade request if you’d like one free copy of each for yourself!
