We are very excited to announce the Archlight Team will be working with Oray Studios moving forward on producing high quality and timely pixel art!
Oray Studios have a very large portfolio of high quality work for dozens of projects in the past. We have a long term agreement with them and are very excited for the increased amount of new creatures, equipment and now spell animations that we will be releasing in the very near future.
We do want to thank you guys the players, especially the massive amount of referrals that have been made and huge influx of new players over the past 2 weeks. The growth has been truly overwhelming in the best way possible. We are so excited that 2 months in our player base is stronger than launch (and has grown every single day since the easter catch-up mechanic was introduced, and more so once the referral system was also added). Additionally, thank you so much for your support donation wise as well, as this has allowed us to further re-invest into Archlight, by adding on an actual studio team, and allowing us to grow at an even faster pace than we have over the past year.
Now, Oray Studios joining does not mean that Erick, Mikas, or others wont be spriting for us anymore, these guys are very talented artists who we love working with, however, at times they can be rather untimely, sometimes taking a long time to complete certain assets or sprites that we need (also very much limiting the potential amount of sprites, new creautres, new items, new armors, new weapons, spell animations, outfits, everything!) that we could be releasing, simply due to the fact that, well, they have lives, they're not robots. We have always given them as much work as they want and will continue to do so, as they really are exceptionally talented artists that the community has grown to love. We interviewed over 50 pixel artists and pixel art groups, and we feel Oray Studios are ambitious and will be a great fit for Archlight
Macro'ing/External Software Policy
From today forward, we will be enforcing a strict no strike policy to using Macro's or External Software to play Archlight.
How will this be enforced?
The only proper way to enforce something like this, to ensure innocent people arn't targetted or banned, is by doing actual manual checks, this will be done by staff (primarily myself and finkelz) and often based on reports, however we will also be actively checking suspicious situations and people (especially if they've been reported before but not caught).
What will be the punishment if caught?
Minimum 1 week ban, most situations 2 week. If caught a second time, it will be simply a permanent ban.
