Wednesday, December 9, 2009

... and a door closes

Hey everyone,


I am sad to say we are going to stop recording the podcast for now. We have a lot on our plates and have to let this go. We will still be around and are excited about the new content! I hope to see you in-game!

~Arianwyn

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

No podcast

I am sick this week so we are going to skip the podcast this time. Not too much going on right now anyways. We'll be back soon!

~Arianwyn

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Monday, November 9, 2009

Episode 10 - Changes are a comin'

Episode 10 is live and ready for consumption. You can even listen to it here on the site in our handy dandy player!

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Friday, October 30, 2009

Official Twitter account

I've created the official twitter account for The Sanctuary. Make sure to follow us on Twitter for the latest information on what we're doing and news about Free Realms. You can find us here: The Sanctuary Podcast on Twitter

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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Episode 9 - Spooky Spectacular!

I just posted the newest episode, the Soccer Special. You can listen to it on the website in our new player, or download it from iTunes. It should show in iTunes shortly. If you are subscribed to the podcast it will update right away. Also it should be showing on the Zune store as well. Enjoy!

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Saturday, October 3, 2009

Soccer Special

We just posted a little special edition for the release of the Soccer update. Hope you enjoy it!

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

New Media Player

I've put up a new media player on the website, so that you can play the podcasts straight from here if you like. Give it a try.

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Friday, September 25, 2009

iTunes should be fixed

I think iTunes is fixed now. Sorry for the unexpected outage. If you have any troubles, let me know.

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A little problem in iTunes

I was playing around with the direction iTunes goes to get the show, to see if I could utilize another tool that will allow me to more accurately track traffic. Well in the process, I broke it. I've made a change to put it back the way it was, BUT it might not take for a few hours. I hope to have it fixed here very soon. If you want to listen to the show another way, click on listen online. Then on the Feedburner page, you can click the icon next to each episode to listen online. Sorry I messed everything up, but I hope to have it fixed fairly soon!

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Episode 7 - Interview with Pex

The latest episode is live as of this morning. Might take a few hours to show up in the usual places.

I do want to apologize in advance, for the echo in the audio. I'm really not happy with how we keep getting echo's on every person except for me. I'm still trying to get that figured out. So if you can bear with the slight echo and listen to the full interview, I think you'll find it quite rewarding.

Thanks again to Pex for taking time to virtually 'sit' down with us last Friday. We had a great time and he's a great conversationalist. I look forward to more chats in the future.

I also want to mention, that this was our longest podcast to date. We almost ended up going over an hour. Well actually our interview was over an hour until I cut it back down in editing.

Well take a moment to give it a listen.

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Friday, September 18, 2009

2 Talk like a pirate day events!

Arianwyn has been working to pull together an unofficial Talk Like A Pirate Day event. It's scheduled for 7pm EST on Saturday. Today Pex announced an official event for today, Friday, from 4-6 PST. http://www.freerealms.com/article/detail.action?articleId=331

So come join the fun! See ya there matey!

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Free Realms Double Station Cash This Weekend Sept 18-20

As found over on Free Realms Insider

Too many cute things on the marketplace to pick just one?

Take advantage of Double Station Cash, this coming weekend! From 9-18 to 9-20, you can redeem your store bought Station Cash card for double its face value.

For one weekend only, players with active accounts in good standing in EverQuest, EverQuest II and Free Realms can take advantage of this special promotional offer from Sony Online Entertainment. Simply purchase any pre-paid Free Realms Station Cash retail game card at any one of our participating retailers and redeem that card during the promotional period for double its value in Station Cash. That’s right, double its value in Station Cash!!

To take advantage of this offer go to any of our select retail partners: 7-Eleven, Best Buy, Blockbuster, CVS, Rite Aid, Speedway, Target, Toys R Us, or Walmart and purchase any pre-paid Free Realms Station Cash retail game card. Redeem your card online through www.station.sony.com during the promotional period.

Only cards redeemed between Friday, September 18th (after 7:00am PDT) and Sunday, September 20th (before 10:00pm PDT) will receive the double Station Cash value bonus. Cards may be purchased anytime in advance, but to receive the promotional Station Cash bonus cards must be redeemed successfully during the promotional period. Once successfully redeemed your Wallet Balance will reflect your new pre-paid Station Cash balance plus your bonus 100% Station Cash value.

The Station Cash granted through Free Realms starter card packs will not be included in this offer.

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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Episode 6 - Talk like a Pirate! is up

Just finished uploading the latest episode. Episode 6 - Talk like a Pirate!

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Friday, September 4, 2009

DragonCon

The Free Realms team is out in Atlanta this weekend attending DragonCon. DragonCon is a Sci-Fi/Fantasty/Comic Convention in Atlanta, Georgia. Pex, Brenlo and several others from Sony have gone out to promote the Sony games. Brenlo just Twitpix'd this picture of our own Pex dressed up in a Steampunk Costume. Thought you'd get a kick out of this.

From FR Pictures

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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Contest Entries

Here are our submissions that we had for our design contest.

Free Realms Drawings

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Can you say Soccer? I knew you could ...

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Sunday, August 30, 2009

Episode 5: Advertising is up!

I just finished uploading the new episode. It should be showing up in all those places shortly. Should be on iTunes, Zune and our Feed site very soon. I hope you enjoy it!


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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Delayed again

Our podcast recording did not work out this week.

We will be recording this next weekend.

Thank you for sending in some outfits, we now have had three entries.
Remember, all of the entries will be sent in to Sony! Whether you win our contest or not.
So, have fun and we will hope to see you in-game!

~Arianwyn~
Server 7

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Drawing contest

If any of you have questions on our contest, please go to our forums. We have some information up there right now and we will be glad to answer any questions you might have.


Thank ya very much!
Arianwyn =D

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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Episode 4 - Pet Frenzy is up

Just got done editing the show and we've got it posted on both iTunes and Zune. Have a listen, and let us know what you think. We have announced a contest in this episode. We'll have details on the website tomorrow. If you have any questions, send us an email at thesanctuarypodcast@gmail.com. Have a great week!


You can also listen to it on FeedBurner, if you don't have iTunes.

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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Delayed podcast - Episode 4

Hello Free Realmers,


This week is a busy one for us, and there is not much new info out yet. So we are going to wait a week and we'll be back soon!

Sorry for the delay!

~Arianwyn & Zachary

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Thursday, August 6, 2009

New Free Realms Commercials

Sony released 2 new commercials today for Free Realms. Here are links to both of them.



What are your thoughts about the commercial spots? Head over to our forums to discuss it with us. Click here for the Forums.

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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Comments are fixed

Thanks Luper for pointing it out. The comments feature on the blog site was broken. I think I've got it fixed now. I had to have it come up in a separate pop up window to work correctly. If might not see the window if you have a pop up blocker enabled. Let me know if you have any further issues with it. Thanks again for the heads up.

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Friday, July 31, 2009

Episode 3 - Vroom, Vroom!!

We just finalized Episode 3 and it's up and ready! It'll take a few minutes to show up in iTunes and Zune, but should be there very soon. Be sure to listen to our interview with Luke Sigmund, Lead Systems Designer at Free Realms! And be sure to rate us in iTunes and Zune! Thanks and we hope you enjoy it!


You can also listen to it directly from here. Episode 3: Vroom, Vroom!!

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Episode 3 is coming soon

We got it all recorded last night and edited, but I'm listening to it one more time to make sure it's ready. Should have it out to you today!

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Thursday, July 30, 2009

The update is going in as we speak ...

The website is down and the update is rolling in. Can't wait to check it out.


I also want to apologize for the delay with the podcast. Next time around we'll do it on schedule and not wait for the update. We can always put out a special edition. That's part of the learning process. Should be a packed show this week.

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Spare time ;)

Here is a FR video my sister (Kate Bubbleblossom) and I made using our alts in our spare time.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFVXv92eocw

Hope you like it!

Arianwyn

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Monday, July 27, 2009

Episode 3 - Delayed

With the imminent release of the new content update, we decided to hold off on recording episode 3 so that we could cover that update at that time. Sorry for the delay, but we felt it would be best to get that information included in the podcast. So look for it just after the update goes live!

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Friday, July 24, 2009

Patch moved to Monday or Tuesday

Pex posted on the official forums that the patch has been delayed until Monday or Tuesday. There were a few bugs that just didn't want to be squashed in time. Plus they didn't want to roll out such a large patch on a Friday when there would be less staff available on Sat & Sun to fix any issues that might come up.

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Thursday, July 23, 2009

More Speedway Screenshots




Over at ZAM, they've got more screenshots of Speedway Thunder. Go check them out. ZAM Free Realms

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Just added forums

Over on the left side of the screen, I've added some new forums. This will give everyone a chance to provide feedback and to discuss Free Realms.

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Pex says maybe Thursday? ...

Over on the message boards, Pex gave us the following tidbit.

We're all looking forward to some Racing and Demo Derby progression! I hope you have your helmets on and are ready to go.

Right now we're expecting a Thursday evening update, but that may change if needed.


Here is the link if you want to read more. Thursday Patch day?

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Developer's Blog Site


Turns out there is a Free Realms Developer's blog site. It's over on MMORPG.Com. The cool thing is that there is some additional information over there about the new patch that is scheduled to come out this week. Check it out. Oh and there is a new Speedway Thunder graphic.

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Monday, July 20, 2009

Free Realms Comic Book

Sony announced today that they are working with WildStorm and best-selling fantasy author J.S. Lewis (the Grey Griffins series), to produce a 12 issue comic book series based on the Free Realms game. This is a move that is common with other MMORPG makers and makes sense here as well. The quality of the images shown in the announcement show a careful attention to producing a high quality comic. Here is a link to the article if you want to see more of the images.

Free Realms Comic

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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Episode #2 is out!

Hello everyone!

We are very excited to have our second episode out, and we hope you will enjoy listening to it!
Please remember to rate us!
Thanks!

~Arianwyn~

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Episode 2: The Race Is On!

Episode 2: The Race Is On!


Show Notes - Episode #2 - The Race is on!
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Intro
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*Website redone
*Submitted the podcast on Zune, should go live soon!
*Rate us on iTunes!

*Playing on server 7

Updates from last week
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We got a few new pieces of information on what we discussed last week.

*Soccer - Sometime "later this summer".
There will be timed minigames with power-ups that allow you to do special moves,
Your guild can choose a color scheme so everyone matches.
And you'll be able to unlock a new job, a Soccer star.

New area and job
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*Desert theme - Sunstone Valley - Home of the dwarves.

*Players might be able to progress beyond level 20!

*Druid job, members only.

Player housing
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*At E3 it was mentioned that player housing could possibly show up in Sept or Oct.

Big News
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Speedway Thunder!
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*Twitter said "Speedway Thunder". Then came patch notes:

quest trails
Added mannequins
preview items in the marketplace window.
There is a new members only chat channel. You type /mo to chat there.
Pets won't need to tinkle as often.
jobs will level up more quickly now.
And, ... a new raceway is under construction over in Seaside.

*All the Summer Splash items were removed.
*several vendors selling Station Cash goods.

*More information on Speedway Thunder!

*They mentioned that they want the updates to be themed around something for that patch.

*Adding an Expert difficulty on the minigames to make it more challenging.

Discuss: Out of Bounds
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Tip of the week:
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On twitter, someone slipped a little interesting hint. If you type /ABSNBD in the chat window, you enable a little cheat so to speak. It makes your head huge, like a bobble head. Type it again to return to normal.

Information sent in by listeners:
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Malik Blazegate shared a tip with us to help you level your combat jobs to level 10. In Blackspore, there is a dungeon at the bottom left corner of the map called, Haunted Mines. It is a level 3 dungeon, but if you go in and fight just the spiders at the beginning of the cave, you'll earn a lot of experience. Once you get beyond the spiders, it gets much harder. At that point, you can exit the dungeon and start over again. This should help you get to level 10 on your jobs fairly quickly. Thanks for the tip, Malik!


Reminder: Visit the website, listen on iTunes, rate us on iTunes!

(The ninja trainer is in Lakeshore)

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Friday, July 17, 2009

Inside the Seaside Racetrack

Inside the Seaside Racetrack

ILoveMom619, on Freerealmsinsider.com posted this video from inside the Seaside racetrack. Check it out.

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Thursday, July 16, 2009

New screenshots of Kart Racing!


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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Speedway Thunder ...

Well, something slipped on twitter ...


"[Chuck] Well, I said it. And there it is. Speedway Thunder!!"

And such begins the speculation. What are your thoughts?

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More changes to the site!

Ok, I changed the template back to what it was...
Sorry everybody for all the changes!
Working on moving the button to the side also.
Hope to see all ya'll on the game!

~Arianwyn~

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Changes to the site

I'm tinkering with changes to the site. I hope to have that nailed down today sometime. Bear with me as we under go some construction!

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Website/Blog Revisions

We're in the process of revising the website and getting it to look better. Plus at the same time, we're getting other things 'tweaked' as well. We're really excited about how things are coming along. Thanks for swinging by and checking us out. We are already prepping for this weeks show and we should be recording the next episode either Saturday or Sunday. So look for the next episode on either Monday or Tuesday of next week.

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Monday, July 13, 2009

Episode 1 is up!

I've just finished posting Episode 1. I submitted it to iTunes so it should be up there soon. Here is a link to the feed if you'd like to check it out!


The Sanctuary: A Free Realms Podcast - Click here to listen to the first episode, or search for Free Realms on iTunes.

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Welcome!

We just recorded our first episode over the weekend. I'm currently editing the recording and we should have it up and live either tonight or at least by Wednesday. I'm learning as I go, so I apologize for the delays to getting it active.


I know the website looks a little rough. We quickly threw it together as we were recording the podcast so that we had addresses to give out on the podcast. I'll have that updated shortly as well.
Anyway, thank you for stopping by. We'll have more content and a better look in place shortly.

Zachary WeaselChaser

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About This Blog

When listening to a podcast one morning, they asked why haven't you made your own if you have interest in it?

So combining our love of the game, our passion for helping others and the love for technology, we decided to do it. So here we are.

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