I don't think I can provide an exact interpretation of what Fantasy is that will address every single game case and make developers feel 100% confident in their project. It was left open-ended for the reason of allowing both creators and us the freedom to consider many different games. I don't want to say something like, 'NO LASERS ALLOWED' when your game involves a rogue, a warrior, and a mage scouring ancient ruins and avoiding traps that fire 'beams of magic.'
Fantasy tends to be set in a world ruled by magic and devoid of 'high-end' technology. But to further push you in the right direction, when you think of Fantasy, think Lord of the Rings or the Warcraft universe. WoW obviously really pushes the boundaries of what is Fantasy since it has spaceships, teleporters, and other technology. But it's all set on the stage of old gods. ancient elementals, and magic that anchors it in the correct genre. You could even just go to a book store and look at every book in the Fantasy section. If your game looks anything like these things, you're on the right track.
I'm sure there are still more questions so feel free to respond here or email me directly for your specific concerns. [email protected].
Yes! 2.1.9 is currently being deployed to all regions and this means the War3 assets will soon be live everywhere. We did fix some of the bugs you guys pointed out in this thread so thanks again for helping test it.
Now that they are live, please start sharing anything you created for our 'Memories of War' idea. I want to start featuring and promoting your Warcraft content as soon as possible. Thank you!
Hey guys, I was just looking for the original thread.
Bad news is that we're not going to be able to bring up the PTR again. The good news is that part of the reason we're not putting it up is because the patch is being deployed very soon.
Maybe we could get a testing day/night organized so we can get whatever you have been working on up to speed as fast as possible so that I can promote it right away. Let me know if people are interested.
I wanted to let you all know as soon as I heard. I know we talked about a 2 month window but something has come up that was unforeseeable and as a result, we'll need to take down the PTR environment this Thursday, March 5. We're going to try to bring it back up the following week (March 9th) but there is a chance it will be pushed back to a later time or it may not come up at all before we release the assets to the live servers.
Please make sure to save your work and if you haven't tried to publish or do any online testing, try to get it in before Thursday. Otherwise you may have to wait several weeks. Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!
We're doing a small patch to the PTR next week that is all technical code clean up and other boring structure changes. I'm letting you know because we are paranoid that somehow you'll lose all of the hard work you've been putting in so I'm here to say BACK UP YOUR FILES. Not sure when next week so just save constantly. =)
Also, bug reports. I've seen some scattered in some other threads but if you guys can compile a list of bugs you've found with the assets and post it here, that would be awesome. Thank you!
I want to highlight the second part of this blog, Memories of War. When the War3 assets go live, we'd love to have content to feature and I'm excited to see what you guys will be able to do. The PTR will only last so long, so we're not expecting fully functional games, but anything that focuses on your favorite Warcraft memories will be awesome.
Let me know if you guys have questions about this.
So though we did have a new, fresh build, ready to go on Friday evening, we decided to not release the PTR right before a weekend. We don't want to discover issues and then everyone is out of the office and is not able to start working on fixes. We're targeting early next week for the release.
Not that it has stopped you guys from digging into the assets already. ;)
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I don't think I can provide an exact interpretation of what Fantasy is that will address every single game case and make developers feel 100% confident in their project. It was left open-ended for the reason of allowing both creators and us the freedom to consider many different games. I don't want to say something like, 'NO LASERS ALLOWED' when your game involves a rogue, a warrior, and a mage scouring ancient ruins and avoiding traps that fire 'beams of magic.'
Fantasy tends to be set in a world ruled by magic and devoid of 'high-end' technology. But to further push you in the right direction, when you think of Fantasy, think Lord of the Rings or the Warcraft universe. WoW obviously really pushes the boundaries of what is Fantasy since it has spaceships, teleporters, and other technology. But it's all set on the stage of old gods. ancient elementals, and magic that anchors it in the correct genre. You could even just go to a book store and look at every book in the Fantasy section. If your game looks anything like these things, you're on the right track.
I'm sure there are still more questions so feel free to respond here or email me directly for your specific concerns. [email protected].
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The fantasy theme is absolutely required. It's the first requirement listed in the blog and in the official rules.
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I can't believe it took you guys so long to notice!
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Are people still haven't trouble uploading?
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Yes! 2.1.9 is currently being deployed to all regions and this means the War3 assets will soon be live everywhere. We did fix some of the bugs you guys pointed out in this thread so thanks again for helping test it.
Now that they are live, please start sharing anything you created for our 'Memories of War' idea. I want to start featuring and promoting your Warcraft content as soon as possible. Thank you!
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Hey guys, I was just looking for the original thread.
Bad news is that we're not going to be able to bring up the PTR again. The good news is that part of the reason we're not putting it up is because the patch is being deployed very soon.
Maybe we could get a testing day/night organized so we can get whatever you have been working on up to speed as fast as possible so that I can promote it right away. Let me know if people are interested.
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Thanks for all the reports, everyone. I passed them along to our QA team for reproduction and tracking.
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I wanted to let you all know as soon as I heard. I know we talked about a 2 month window but something has come up that was unforeseeable and as a result, we'll need to take down the PTR environment this Thursday, March 5. We're going to try to bring it back up the following week (March 9th) but there is a chance it will be pushed back to a later time or it may not come up at all before we release the assets to the live servers.
Please make sure to save your work and if you haven't tried to publish or do any online testing, try to get it in before Thursday. Otherwise you may have to wait several weeks. Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!
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Hey party peeps,
We're doing a small patch to the PTR next week that is all technical code clean up and other boring structure changes. I'm letting you know because we are paranoid that somehow you'll lose all of the hard work you've been putting in so I'm here to say BACK UP YOUR FILES. Not sure when next week so just save constantly. =)
Also, bug reports. I've seen some scattered in some other threads but if you guys can compile a list of bugs you've found with the assets and post it here, that would be awesome. Thank you!
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Correction. 2 months is what we are looking at right now. More time for awesomeness!
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@DuckyTheDuck: Go
I'm estimating the PTR period will be about one month.
@howdyyy: Go
The PTR is available only on the the North American server.
@Domper: Go
I'm going to bring up custom races internally and see if we can make any progress on this.
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The PTR is finally up and running.
http://us.battle.net/arcade/en/blog/17796669/warcraft-iii-assets-now-available-on-the-ptr-2-2-2015
I want to highlight the second part of this blog, Memories of War. When the War3 assets go live, we'd love to have content to feature and I'm excited to see what you guys will be able to do. The PTR will only last so long, so we're not expecting fully functional games, but anything that focuses on your favorite Warcraft memories will be awesome.
Let me know if you guys have questions about this.
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Okay. *Now* it's live.
http://us.battle.net/arcade/en/blog/17796669/warcraft-iii-assets-now-available-on-the-ptr-2-2-2015
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I just posted this here but to reiterate, we pushed back the release till Monday morning so that we'd be in the office in case any issues pop up.
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So though we did have a new, fresh build, ready to go on Friday evening, we decided to not release the PTR right before a weekend. We don't want to discover issues and then everyone is out of the office and is not able to start working on fixes. We're targeting early next week for the release.
Not that it has stopped you guys from digging into the assets already. ;)