Tag Archives: Time Travel

Next Island Content Release Notes, EU 12.6

Next Island Content Release May 1, 2012 / EU Release 12.6 Today’s content release introduces Dark Lysterium, offers new missions, and introduces new blueprints, including the Hoplite Gloves and the long-awaited tropical clothes! New Mineral Dark Lysterium Common mineral lysterium, … Continue reading

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Free Travel To Ancient Greece!

Right now, and for a limited time, all trips to and from Ancient Greece won’t cost any Time Travel Crystals. We hope you all enjoy hunting cyclops in Greece, and looting Cyclops Heads for crafting while you’re there!

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Updated Character Art: Io

A small improvement to something that’s been creatively irking me:  We introduced Io last June, as a young girl from Ancient Greece who’s slipped forward in time with the malfunctioning time travel system. She’s been helping new arrivals find Orpheus’ … Continue reading

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Blueprints, Storyline, and Optimal Game Design

Our Next Island game world was already live, although it was mostly empty, when I began developing missions and activities. So one unique challenge in designing for Next Island is to account for the current player base, as well as … Continue reading

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Planned Content Release

Mindark’s next content release date will be March 13th, so we’ll be releasing our next Next Island content on that day. Our next release offers a few updates to the existing missions with the Crystal Center robots. We’re making some … Continue reading

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Meg’s Blog: Broken Elysian Technology

Broken Elysian Technology is a new dropped item that will be found on Next Island after November 29th. From a story perspective, these are pieces of Elysian technology left over from accidents in time travel and dimensional travel. From a … Continue reading

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Romani Ite Domum!

So I answered a couple questions about development at Next Island over at Entropia Planets, before the conversation just devolved into Roman history and Monty Python. Ancient Greece was introduced and announced early 2010, and discovered March 6th. Is Ancient … Continue reading

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Major Changes To Next Island Quests

As we implement new quests and modify the time travel system for our June content release, we’re going to be removing the current quests. When we take Next Island offline to add the new quests, we’ll be removing the existing … Continue reading

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This Week’s Update

I’ve been testing a lot this week, trying out some new quests, and looking at some exciting changes to time travel. Been continuing to argue with our producer (say hi to him here) about what’s coming in June and what’s … Continue reading

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Time Travel

What do you think of the new content here on Next Island? We’ve got some new quests for you, including one that rewards with a noob club and one that offers the long-awaited time travel blueprint! This VU had a … Continue reading

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