October 25, 2015

Wizard101: Nightmare Before Christmas Tree Winners!

Hello Wizards!

I want to thank each and everyone of you for entering and or spreading the word about my Nightmare Before Christmas contest. This contest is personally a favorite because I love The Nightmare Before Christmas because it combines two of the best Holidays: Halloween and Christmas. I mean I don't blame Jack for wanting to bring Christmas to Halloween Town. :D I wanted everyone that decided to enter my contest t combine Wizard101, Halloween and Christmas together to draw or create an awesome tree. Everybody seemed to follow the rules this contest and that means a lot to me. :D

1st Prize: 
Emily (bulciks)

All combinations of Wizard101 (a treant like creature) Christmas (Christmas lights) and Halloween (a spooky theme and if you look closely the tree actually looks alive). I love this image and I'm glad you submitted your wonderful graphic to me. I hope you have a great Halloween (and Christmas when it arrives)! :) I'll send your 5,000 Crowns & W101 Vampire and Mummy Outfit codes to your email soon.

2nd Prize:
Charles

Another Halloween Christmas Tree by Charles. This wonderful piece of artwork combines Wizard101 (The Awesome Wizard hat that thre tree is wearing), Halloween (Do I see candy corn? :O) and Christmas (the candycane wand) together. Thank you for submitting your art for my contest. I hope you have a nice and safe Halloween next week! :) I'll send your 5,000 Crowns & W101 Vampire and Mummy Outfit codes to your email soon!

3rd Prize:
Gabriel Moonstaff

Gabriel did an amazing job including everything that I wanted in this contest. Wizard101 ( I love that the tree topper is a W101 logo) Halloween (Look at all of the Halloween ornaments, amazing!) and Christmas (the presents under the tree and the bow on the side of the tree). You did an amazing job, thank you for submitting your wonderful artwork. :) I'll send your 5,000 Crowns to your email soon!

4th Prize
Tabitha Sword


Here's another Halloween Christmas tree from Tabitha  that also combines Wizard101 (our Wizard101 teachers as ornaments, that's actually a pretty cool idea- KI please sell them), Halloween (I love that you have ghost and pumpkin ornaments and the pumpkins in the front) and Christmas (Christmas lights and Christmas presents plus Felix Navidad). Thank you for your amazing tree, you'll recieve your 5,000 crowns through email soon!


Random.Org Winners
Isabella Dreamer
Destiny Mistshard

I decided to include Random.Org winners so all of the other entries had a chance to win one of the codes that I mentioned on my Contest Giveaway post: W101 Vampire & Mummy Outfit, W101 Vampire & Mummy outfit which means there was two random.org winners. I usually don't switch contests around like this unless I want everyone to have a chance to win. If you won, you'll recieve an email with your codes. Thank you all for entering my contest with your wonderful trees! I hope KI will let me have another Wizard101 contest soon. :)




October 24, 2015

Pirate101: The Spookiest Place Conntest Winners!

Ahoy Pirates!

I decided I'm going to announce the winners of my Pirate101 Halloween contests on two seperate posts since I didn't want to crowd everything onto one post. I wanted to start by announcing the winners of my Pirate101 Screenshot Contest. :D All winners were chosen by random with random.org. There are many spooky places in Pirate101! Thank you all for entering my contest and congratulations to all of the winners. :)

1st Prize: Valeria Spencer
Pirate101 Smuggler's Cove House and House Space Elixer
Pirate101 Octoberpus Pet
5,000 Crowns


2nd Prize: Smart Logan West
Pirate101 Smuggler's Cove House and House Space Elixer
Pirate101 Octoberpus Pet
5,000 Crowns


3rd Prize: Alex
Pirate101 Smuggler's Cove House and House Space Elixer
5,000 Crowns




October 22, 2015

Does Views Matter?

Hi there,

I thought it was time to make this blog post since I've noticed a decline in reading views. Years ago I started blogging about Wizard101 and actually had more views then than I do right now. I've had more views on posts that didn't make sense and now I've spent more time on most of my posts than I did back when I first started blogging. There's been a huge decline in my views of many posts since YouTube has come along, but I'll explain more below.




I'm not going to tell you how many views I get per day, month or year, but I'll tell you that views don't matter to me. I think that the number of views depend on what people are feeling. Last year my number one view posts were about Pirate101. This year they tie with Wizard101. I've had a huge decline but if it went down farther than it is now I wouldn't care. I know there are YouTubers and reading now isn't the thing (even though I think it's important to everyone), but I know that anybody that's having fun with what they do deserve the best. The amount of views don't matter at all, not even as a money standpoint. Keep in mind that I'm not getting paid for what I do, I'm making these posts for fun, Kingsisle, the community and for my future self to read. I'm not forced to act the way I do on my posts or stick up for Kingsisle just because I'm brainwashed. Lol, I think that's silly. I'm making these posts because I love to. There are many people in the community that love making blog posts, YouTube videos, graphics, guides or whatever else they do just because they love to. I think that the love for what they do is what truly matters. What do views have to do with the end of this conversation? Well I think that if you get one view on your website per month, you're awesome. If you get 1,000,000 views on your website per month, you're just as awesome as the person that has that one view because you're doing what you love to do. In the end views or how many people recognize your work doesn't matter. I think that if you love the games, that's what matters. I will admit that I had a hard time realizing that in the past because I thought I was boring to many people since I've been here for awhile. If you're bored, well you're bored. If you like reading my posts, well,  thank you for all of your support! :D I thought I'd make this post to let you or anybody that's wanting to make YouTube videos, blogs, or whatever else that you matter to me and everyone just as much as everyone here. Thank you for being you and being here in the community! :)

Ooh, a rainbow! :D