HEX Update – Apprentices, Patches, and Streams

Hi HEXers. It’s Friday, ten days into the New Year. I hope you’ve all stuck to your New Year’s resolution: Eating better, exercising, playing HEX more, perhaps?

Patchwork

If you’re playing HEX Alpha, then you noticed we patched yesterday. We’ve added more cards, general stability, fixed some existing cards. Our Patch 820 breakdown features all that news along with discussion from lead developer Dan Clark on balance changes. If you haven’t already, you’ll definitely want to read our new-and-improved patch breakdown.

You’re a Wizard

Right now, we’re in the process of getting all our Cryptozoic Apprentices invitations out to our top candidates. Thank you again to everyone who applied; to those who are joining us in California, we can’t wait to have you come in and begin your journey to become a game designer!

Day-to-Day

Our R&D team has dedicated their entire week to the PVE experience, and the engineering squad is hunting down every tournament bug in addition to working on some upcoming feature additions to the alpha client. The art team is working hard on plugging in the location panoramas for final review and plugging those that pass into the client. At the same time, they continue to work on UI updates and UI for upcoming features. My team, we’re working on getting all the PVE card art assets into our in-house card creation program—all 524 of them (and counting). Plus, we’re doing general community, marketing, and product work. It’s been a busy week for all.

Most Wanted

If you didn’t catch the news this week, MMORPG.com listed HEX as one of the top 5 most wanted indie MMOs of 2014!

Community Battles

The HEXTCGPro community organized tournament began this week, and you can follow the results on their webpage. To those of you competing, good luck!

Twitch.TV

Remember that our own Community Manager Shaggy will be playing Havok, the winner of the second Tournament of Streamers. That’s on January 21st at 5 PM Pacific. Make sure to follow our Twitch channel so you don’t miss out on any streams! And if you didn’t download it already, you can spruce up your own video presentation with the HEX overlay. Just right-mouse-click this link and then click “Save Link As.”

Enjoy, see you next week, and please remember to Like us on Facebook, Follow us on Twitch, register on our forums, and Follow our Twitter accounts: HEXTCG, Dusty, William, and Cory.

-Shaqattaq/William

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