KQ9.org's 3rd Birthday

In honour of KQ9.org's 3rd Birthday, we held a live chat in the TSL Chamber. During this chat, TSL directors and staff answered questions from the press and our fans!

First, we launched the new teaser on the intro page which officially announces our release date and the game as a trilogy. The first hour of the chat was reserved specifically for questions from invited press members including: The Inventory, Fanventures, Quandary and Adventure Gamers. As an added bonus, Ken & Roberta Williams (the official creators of the King's Quest series) attended as well!

In the second hour, we answered some really excellent questions from the fan community. The questions were so good, that we continued the chat for an extra hour!

Overall the event was a great success and lot of fun and I'd like to thank everyone that attended. We've never had such a huge amount of people for any previous chat session and your support was greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Neil Rodrigues
Director of Public Relations and Web
Director of Programming
TSL Development Team

Birthday Gifts

Since it's KQ9.org's birthday, we decided to pass out a few gifts! There are plenty of things to see in the Media section of the site.

During KQ9.org's 3rd Birthday Chat we released many good things for everyone to see, hear and have. We've added eleven brand new Screenshots to the site which showcase characters and backgrounds from various scenes in the game. You'll immediately notice the huge amount of quality and detail the team uses during the creation of The Silver Lining.

Also, we've added six beautiful new themes to the Music section. Some of these themes will be refreshingly new to you and others you may recognize from the current intro teaser, the countdown Flash we had before this teaser, and from the Sound Clips we released earlier this year.

There is also now a new Wallpaper you may download for your desktop which appears in the intro teaser. Now you can finally connect the pieces we displayed during the countdown. We've also now created an official KQIX Skin for Windows Media Player 10. You can now listen to your music and watch videos all within a sleek KQIX interface.

We know you've all been waiting to hear more about game progress for ages, so we've now posted an entry in the Journal that directly addresses this and more. It has specific and concrete details on team progress, and mentions what still needs to be completed for the game.

I hope everyone enjoyed these gifts as much as we enjoyed making them. You are the ones that inspire and motivate us, so you definitely deserve it! You'll be seeing more and more good stuff as we get closer to The Silver Lining's release!

Sincerely,

Neil Rodrigues
Director of Public Relations and Web
Director of Programming
TSL Development Team

News

Release Date

The Silver Lining's release date has now been announced on the intro page!

Character Contest Winner

Congratulations to Julian Kantor for winning the Character Contest with the character named: Cuatokomacen.

Updates

Journal update

Discover exactly what progress has been made on project in the latest Journal entry.

Media goodies!

New screenshots, wallpaper, KQIX media player skin, and music! All of these goodies can be found in the Media section.

KQIX Album

Get up close and personal with the KQIX Development Team. The KQIX Album allows you to read more about the directors and featured staff members here at KQIX.

You will get to read detailed biographies about the team. These biographies will give you some background on each director and featured staff members. They describe such things as the team member's particular role in the team and the skills they possess that help them in their work for the game. Featured staff members will also have bios, pictures and background information.

We will be making updates to KQIX Album monthly, updating and adding more featured staff members each time.

Sincerely,

Neil Rodrigues
Assistant Director of PR and Web Department
Unofficial KQIX Development Team

KQIX Fannatic

Are you a die-hard KQ9 fan? If so, here's your chance to prove it. KQIX Fannatic praises our true KQIX fans in their full glory!

Who says you have to be on the team to play a role in KQIX's development? This feature gives tribute to members of our Forum community. Some have been here for years, and others just a few months. Still, all of them have supported us and have challenged the way we think about various issues and topics during KQIX's development.

Finally you will get a chance to learn more about these hand-picked individuals that have made a difference to both the KQIX site and game. Like the KQIX Album, you will see some interesting information about these users and get a taste of what they mean to us.

Each month we will add more fans to KQIX Fannatic that meet the standards. To meet and discuss with these fannatics and more, sign up at the Forum today!

Sincerely,

Neil Rodrigues
Assistant Director of PR and Web Department
Unofficial KQIX Development Team

News

Chamber schedule

The KQIX Chamber will now be having weekly chat sessions all day, each and every Friday and Saturday.

AOTW Special

A very special surprise! The 3D models of King's Quest IX's main characters revealed each week

Updates

Character Contest

Phase One of the Character Contest is now complete. Check out the winners we chose that will be moving onto the Phase Two.

Journal update

Read about the latest progress and updates about KQIX in the Journal.

FOU!

The most ultimate fan feature ever! Create your unique pet and join KQ9 Haven now! The KQ9 Web Team has brought you an original production in conjunction with the KQ9 fans. We've created FOU!

The featured comic from KQ9 Haven (a unique place for KQ9 groupies only) where you can join in and see what's inside our fans' minds. The hidden corner of the insanity created with the pets of our fans, where our fans participate in the development of their pets' lives in weird and funny situations.

Haven, being a special place for our fans, has the comic, the pets, and even every single request for both: from "I want to write the storyline!" to "I want to have a pet!". So, how does it work?

"I want to write!" is especially for our fans to create a storyline in the limit of 3 to 4 story frames where you can say what happens and how. You submit all your creative ideas. Whoever who wins gets to see their strip officially done!! This contest is only for fans and they do not have a time limit on submissions. They will be open any moment now, so pay attention yours could be the winner! We will feature them each month but for this being the special month of its launch; we will feature them weekly to introduce all the current pets created. Very few fans were selected to have their own customized pet.

"I want to have a pet!" Ever dream of having a unique pet? It doesn't have to be an animal; it doesn't even have to be a solid tangible thing! Whatever you want, you can go to the official thread and read the rules to submit the specifics for you to have your pet! It will be created and you will have a chance to either write its opening strip, leave it to the contest or leave it to the KQ9 Web Team's creativity!

What are you waiting for? Be part of it all! You can always enjoy the new entertaining features KQ9 has for you. For further info please visit KQ9 Haven in our Forum.

Sincerely,

Saydmell Salazar
Co-Director PR and Web Department
Unofficial KQIX Development Team

KQIX Chamber

Finally the highly anticipated KQIX Chamber is revealed. To use it is simple, most of our fans know how already and it requires no expertise or technical skills. So, what is it?

Chamber is King's Quest IX's official chatroom! Based on the concept of having the java-based irc chat we had back on May 18th, 2003, celebrating kq9.org's birthday, the very first KQIX Chamber chat will be this May 15th, 2004. It will be in honour of (what else?) kq9.org's 2nd birthday!

For those that were not a part of our fan community last year, feel free to read the chat log of the event. As you can see, it was a lot of fun and very informative. The fans had the opportunity to directly ask questions to the Directors on the King's Quest IX Development Team. This year, we've had extraordinary progress within the KQ9 team and the Directors would love to share it with you. They may even reveal some spoilers, so this is one chat you definitely will not want to miss.

Chamber will also be having regular weekly chats, where fans can come in and chat amongst themselves and with other KQ9 team members that happen to be there as well. Of course, we wish you the best of luck trying to fish answers out of the team members. But, you never know when you'll get lucky!

Sincerely,

Neil Rodrigues
Assistant Director of PR and Web Department
Unofficial KQIX Development Team

News

Chamber

Meet Chamber, come celebrate on May 15th with us! The KQ9 chatroom has come to stay! Check out the available times that we will be there for you.

Contest

Dress up as a character! Participate in this unique contest that will let you be a part of the magic of King's Quest IX. Dress up, create the profile, customize it, and win your cameo in the game!

Updates

Haven

Come join the KQ9 fan-based community! Create your pet and participate in FOU!

Link Exchange

Share your link with us, and link to us! For further info, please visit the Links section and contact our PR Department staff.

Game Informer

"The revival of adventure gaming" thats the title of April's Issue Classic GI. Joe Juba interviewed us last January. It was a great experience to have this conversation with him regarding what is going on with KQ9 to the adventure gaming world.

We feel praised to be called "the force behind the most promising fan-made continuation of the King's Quest series to date". To our pleasant surprise we had full 2 page coverage in their April issue of present year, along with other interesting adventure topics, developers and games.

During our almost 2 hour chat with Joe, we talked about the work process in KQ9: how we operate as a real company (just non-paid), how you can actually can get hired to fired, schedules, organization, HR, PR and other related. We discussed the progress so far regarding the game, and also a near insight of the future yet to come as he very well said "keep an eye on the website for updates and information". You never know when we may pop-out the promos!

Game Informer is a very well known magazine all over the US. It has a printed version and an online version. You should consider getting April's issue and read the whole edition! Here is some eye candy with our 2 page article: page 1 and page 2. For further info please buy the magazine at any store near you, or subscribe to the online edition.

Sincerely,

Saydmell Salazar
Co-Director PR and Web Department
Unofficial KQIX Development Team

KQ9 Contests

Last month, kq9.org had its first official contests for our fans. The Phrase contest required skills in creativity and thought, while the Flash Games contest involved quick thinking and hand-eye coordination!

The Phrase contest got our fans' creative juices flowing by trying to pick a phrase that would appear somewhere in the game. For obvious reasons, details about what kind of phrases we were looking for were kept secret. We received over 160 entries and are now in the process of picking our winner! There were many excellent entries, ranging from extremely hilarious, to extremely clever and to just extremely odd! We want to thank all of you that worked hard and participated in this mysterious and secretive contest.

We also had the Flash Games contest where the highest scoring player got honourable mention in the Hall of Fame. But more importantly, they received an unreleased KQ9 screenshot, news about our appearance in Game Informer, and even received a small spoiler about the KQ9 plot! We literally weren't expecting such magnificant high scores from our fans! This month we will be continuing the contest with even better prizes. We've fixed KQPong's "point bug" and some things Holeman, to make the games a bit more challenging.

The two new Games are ones you may or may not have seen before. Sneaky Genie is based on the "Snake" game that you must have played on someone's cell phone before. The concept is simple, our KQ6 genie Shamir loves mints, so have him eat as many as possible without running into the walls or himself! Our second game, Hexxawand is based on the game "Hexxagon" only this time it's a battle of wits or wands rather, between Rosella and Graham. Zap Rosella before she zaps you -- show this "princess" who's her "daddy".

This month we're also opening a new contest: the Bear contest. There will be 5 bears in KQ9 and they need names! Based on the pictures, choose a unique and creative name for each one. The winner not only decides the names of these 5 bears, but also receives a special surprise! And don't even try asking what the surprise is... ;)

Sincerely,

Neil Rodrigues
Assistant Director of PR and Web Department
Unofficial KQIX Development Team

News

Game Informer

We had a special 2 page article in Game Informer's April's Issue. We openly talked about it in our Newsletter article. You may check it out courtesy of KQ9 Team: page 1 and page 2. If you want to check out the full article, please buy the magazine or get it online.

KQ9 Contests

Last month we had the Phrase contest now this month we bring to you the Bear contest. Name them all and you get an exclusive prize!

Updates

New Games

March was the month of KQPong and Holeman. In April we bring you Sneaky Genie and Hexxawand. The difficulty level has been raised, even though the new Games get the special big prizes, KQPong and Holeman still participate for other prizes. They both have been updated, check them all out!

Hall of Fame

The Flash games were a hit! We already have the exclusive Hall of Fame up with our winners of the month! Please take a look and hail to the kings! GunHoMac owned KQPong and Adam owned Holeman. Kudos to our winners!

Monthly Update

KQIX has received nothing but good news and congratulations over new site and new look. In return, we give you high-quality material, more updates, more features, and deep thanks for the true support.

These have been an excellent 2 weeks. The launch of the site has had an overwhelming positive feedback that has inspired old fans and new ones, team members and directors. We at PR and Web know the meaning of fans and feedback in this whole process. You are why we work so hard and just for that we give you more and more. We lack the words to give in return all we've received these weeks.

This month's big updates include the online auditions. Finally the info was collected and given to us to have this online for you to audition to be one of the voice overs from the game. Also we have the flash games with prizes. We also have the surprise contest! Get high on creativity, shock us with an amazing sentence around 25 to 30 characters, to be showed in our game. Click on Contest to see details. The winner gets to be on the credits of the game! There are new wallpapers! Old and new, you can get them all for free.

We will hold weekly updates and monthly updates. For those of you that have been following the progress of the kq9.org site, you should know we've kept weekly updates since way back before November last year. We will have continuous monthly updates until the whole site (with the new features) will be fully completed. As well, we will maintain our regular weekly updates. Once the whole site is up, we already have scheduled events, upgrades and cool things for our fans to continue to enjoy the KQIX community, we just keep on growing!

Currently due to external reasons we decided to move the monthly update for middle march sooner! So, from now on all big updates should come approximately around a month. Each newsletter will be released monthly as well as the regular updates of journal and more. Forum and other events are scheduled for you too. The art of the week will keep bringing you our best stuff. We will release more features as the months go on, and all we can certainly say is that you won't need to go anywhere else because you will have it all in one place, here at kq9.org.

Sincerely,

Saydmell Salazar
Co-Director PR and Web Department
Unofficial KQIX Development Team

Game Fever

Flash Games ! More and more updates! We bring you nothing but cool stuff in March! This month we have the Games feature. We launched two of the flash games produced by KQIX's web team: Holeman and KQPong!

We produced a series of flash games, bringing the old 80's arcade feeling to the KQ's fans. Holeman is the core idea of our little fellow, aka Hole-in-the-Wall, trying to escape from Mordack, Alzhared, Lolotte and Malicia! When he gets a sacred treasure he gets a bonus which turns them into black cats which are vulnerable and ready to be devoured. The more you play it, the more addictive it gets; of course, inspired from the old version of the arcade game Pacman. Then our second surprise of the month is KQPong. Yes everyone! For both Connor-haters and non-Connor-haters alike, you can now have fun bouncing Connor's head around on a very fancy Pong board, which leads you on a flashback from KQ1 to KQ9. All these games are completely free here at kq9.org, for all of you to play and show off your high scores with the rest of the fans.

But that's not even nearly the coolest thing about them. The more you play it the better you get, and for those who will spend hours playing them I must inform that at the end of the month we will check out the high scores, and I promise you, the winner gets a never-before-seen kq9 art as a reward! What can it be? 3D art? Colored art? Screenshot? All you need to know is that we want to see those high scores very high! The higher they get, the happier we will be, and the happier we get, the better prizes we will give.

More good news everyone, hope you like these. The web team worked hard to bring them for you. We have more to come! So if you liked these, you will love what's yet to come! What are you waiting for? Go play!

Sincerely,

Saydmell Salazar
Co-Director PR and Web Department
Unofficial KQIX Development Team

News

Online Auditions

They are finally available! Please read the instructions before moving foward in the process. Read the pages in order so that you know exactly what to do, and what the files specifications are, so you won't have problems submitting your file. In case you have any questions or troubles, you can discuss it in the Forum.

Games and more

New kq9.org feature: Flash Games combining old arcade games with KQ themes for our fans to enjoy. As a little push we are willing to be kind to all the highest scorers and give them a unique prize! Enjoy these KQ games brought to you by the web team of the KQIX Developtment Team.

Updates

New Wallpapers

We bring you the old favourites and new Wallpapers! Just for you to have KQ9 art on your desktop. Feel free to get one or get them all!

Library and Info available

Due to constant fan requests, the Library and Info sections are back again. They are currently available but still under construction.

New Style

We shine with a new site, new look and new features. That's what these updates are all about. The PR and Web Department have been working since last year in these new projects brought to you just for your enjoyment.

What's new at kq9.org now is that we have many new features for our fans. We launch the site out with 3 of these new surprises, and there are more yet to come! KQ9 community just keeps on growing.

We launch the site with -kq9 newsletter- now you can have the news and updates from whatever happens with us monthly. Are you suscribed already? With one click you can get all our info mailed at your e-mail account now.

Our second new feature its something you've all been asking us for quite a while now. We created a -kq9 journal- where you get reports from all directors of department speaking on progress of the game development as well as details about this big production -- from the Main Project Directors to Assistants. Get ready to hear details of what's going on, facts of progress to anecdotes from our team.

And finally our third newest baby, Sketch of the Week evolved into Art of the Week, if you enjoyed our sketches, you will love our colored art, 3D art, scenarios, and many more to come. We will show you a different art surprise each week. It can range from a sketch to 3D art! You wanted more and we just love to please you.

I hope everyone enjoys this as much as we in KQIX enjoyed gathering the plans and making this come true for you. Our most sincere thanks for your kind support this far, that's why we work harder for you everyday.

Sincerely,

Saydmell Salazar
Co-Director PR and Web Department
Unofficial KQIX Development Team

Secrets

You may believe you know what we are all about, but do you really? The development of the project has been kept secret in order to add a surprise effect to all of our fans, but now KQIX has became a strong solid creative group eager to provide you not just a game, but also a community for you to relate to.

We on KQIX know how important fans are, because we are fans ourselves, and we know the key role that you play. You give and you get, for that we're expanding our horizons on kq9.org in order to establish a place for you to hang and be entertained while we finish to produce the 9th piece of KQ: "Every Cloak Has A Silver Lining" .

That's why these 3 updates are part of a series of things we've had covered just for your enjoyment. We will keep the rest in secret till we have the chance to put it all online. In the meantime, we discussed which would be the most important features to show and that would be the ones you have asked the most, and have expected us to do. The Journal, a place where you can actually read serious progress of the game. The Newsletter, where now you can actually be notified of the updates of kq9.org, to get what's going on right in your inbox one click away from our site. Finally the Art of the Week, which thanks to your amazing feedback we decided to give you more than sketches.

We have many good things your way for our fans out there. We will keep the updates such as the Weekly Poll, the Art of the Week, the Newsletter mailing and eventually as many journal entries as there could be. Since our site is growing we will have a "site map" available any moment soon which will provide you full info of what we have for you at kq9.org.

Sincerely,

Saydmell Salazar
Co-Director PR and Web Department
Unofficial KQIX Development Team

News

New Home

Now we show you 3 consoles to keep you informed of the main updated and whats going on in kq9.org. What's new is about promos, events and new additions to the site, Recent Updates is about what we add frequenly and Newsletter that gathers the whole info and activities of the previous month.

New Features

We launched the site with 3 brand new features. In February we launched the Newsletter, the Journal and the Art of the Week. We will remain under heavy construction until we level the old features and each month uncover the other suprise features.

Updates

New Newsletter Release

We released the first issue of the KQ9 Newsletter that covers all the info and what's been the movement lately, not just from kq9.org but also for the KQ9 team. Please subscribe if you want to be informed of all the new exciting things going on and yet to come.

First Journal Entry

The Journal has been launched and is officially working as of now. Please go take a look at what our directors have to say about progress, anecdotes and general info regarding the KQ9 project.