One of the Dragon Quest franchise’s most influential developers has parted ways with the publisher. Jin Fujisawa, who worked on nine entries on the series (from Dragon Quest VII on PS1 to Dragon Quest X Online) has moved onto pastures new and is now working with a different company on an as-yet-undisclosed project.

The Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies director made the announcement on Twitter, leaving many wondering what the veteran developer has moved on to after all these years working on Square properties.

So what do you think Fujisawa-san is working on now? And what are your favourite DQ memories on Nintendo? Share your thoughts and memories below…

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You’ve already seen the header image. Do we even need to say anything else?

A full changelog for the Snapshot can be found on Minecraft.net.

• New entity: Dolphins
• New block: Conduit
• New block: Blue Ice
• New item: Heart of the Sea
• New item: Nautilus Shell
• Icebergs now generate in frozen oceans
• You no longer have “night vision” effect underwater
• Water now has different colours based on the biome
• New video option: Biome blend distance
• Going in and out of swimming should now feel smoother
• You can now swim through 1×1 holes! Again!
• Fog colour underwater now changes much smoother between biomes
• Optimized fog rendering
• Light now goes much further through liquid blocks

DOLPHINS

It’s happening!

• Spawns in any ocean that isn’t frozen
• They’re just cute, okay?
• Dolphins are very playful and love floating items
• They also love to chase after boats
• If you upset one, you upset them all
• More behaviours coming soon

Blubb blubb blubb blubb

• Water now only blocks 1 light per block, instead of 3
• This only affects newly placed water – we will relight all chunks in an upcoming snapshot
• Every ocean biome has a unique water colour, and swamps are icky and gross
• In newly generated chunks, you’re less likely to find frozen ocean next to warm ocean (and similar)

CONDUIT

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• I’m not sure.
• What is this?
• Where are we?

To get snapshots, open your launcher and go to the “launch options” tab. Check the box saying “Enable snapshots” and save. To switch between the snapshot and normal version, you can find a new dropdown menu next to the “Play” button. Back up your world first or run the game on in a different folder (In the “launch options” page).

Please report any and all bugs you find in Minecraft to bugs.mojang.com.

Snapshots can corrupt your world, please backup and/or run them in a different folder from your main worlds. 1.13 will have a lot of experimental snapshots that may break everything and smell funny. This may be one of those snapshots. This is what happens when Mojang are changing all the things! 

Share your thoughts on how 1.13 is shaping up in the comments below!

The community focus is our celebration of the player. When you do great things, we put you in the spotlight. We’ve had artists, musicians, guides, badasses, and a long list of others share their stories in the past. Our goal is to introduce you to a new face. This week, we have two faces that are part of a streaming duo. They’re not just good friends that stream together. They are a father-son duo that offers up their raid expertise to help others. 

Let’s meet the gentleman of WTFGameNation.

Tell us a little bit about yourself and how you fit into the Destiny 2 Community.

P and T: Our names are Peanut and Toast, and we are a partnered Father/Son stream that focuses mainly on “raiducation,” specifically for the Prestige raid. “Raiducation” is the term we use to describe our method of teaching: We teach the raid the way it’s meant to be played with integrity (all the best positions, strats, weapons, subclasses and everything to help for a successful raid).

We have been raiding consistently since Destiny first launched, and have made it our focus to teach the raid and all of its mechanics to those who have not had the opportunity to attempt/complete it. Or for those who just need a team to play with. Our community is filled with people whose desire is to help others learn and grow as players.

We appreciate you taking the time to pass your knowledge to others. Where can we find you on the internet?

You can learn a lot about a Guardian by their preferred weapons and abilities. What is your favorite Subclass and weapon?

P and T: Sunbreaker Titans all the way! For Toast, Better Devils is by far the weapon that he has the most fun with. For Peanut, it’s The Doubt from FWC.

At least you didn’t say Warlock. What kind of content can we find on your Twitch Channel?

P and T: We play many different games, but Destiny raid help is what we spend the majority of our time streaming. You’ll find us helping people through the hardest PVE content to date on a regular basis.

How many Raid completions do you have?

P and T: At the time of writing this, we have over 600 raid clears. Over 200 of those are Prestige clears.

That’s a lot of raiding! What Destiny 2 changes or additions are you most looking forward to?

P and T: The Return of the Shoulder Charge! The potential behind mods 2.0 is something we are really looking forward to. And of course, we are extremely excited for the next raid lair. 

Anything else you would like to add before we wrap up? 

P and T: Our community is one of integrity, kindness and support. We are a family first and foremost. We welcome new members and teach all the mechanics with patience and respect. As sherpas, we take great pride in teaching how the raid works to all people of all ages. 

If you’re looking for help with the raid, or want to meet some of the best people we have had the pleasure of knowing, we invite you to check out our community. Stop by and raid with us!

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* Enabled Techies in Captains Mode

* First creep wave no longer draws aggro on the side lanes until they meet the other wave

* Skull Basher: Now uses Mithril Hammer instead of Javelin. Gives +25 Damage and +10 Strength.
* Skull Basher: Bash no longer pierces evasion
* Abyssal Blade: Now grants +25 Damage
* Abyssal Blade: Bash no longer pierces evasion
* Monkey King Bar: Now uses Demon Edge, Quarterstaff and Javelin. Gives +52 Damage and 10 Attack Speed.
* Monkey King Bar: Procs changed from 60 Pure damage to 100 Magical damage
* Maelstrom: Now uses Javelin instead of Gloves and Recipe.
* Maelstrom: No longer gives +25 Attack Speed
* Maelstrom: Chain Lightning damage increased from 120 to 170
* Maelstrom: Procs can no longer be evaded
* Mjollnir: Procs can no longer be evaded
* Mjollnir: Chain Lightning damage increased from 150 to 170
* Mjollnir: Attack speed reduced from 80 to 75

* Battle Fury: Now requires a 300 gold recipe

* Blink Dagger: Cooldown increased from 14 to 15

* Boots of Travel: Building prioritization range increased from 700 to 900

* Dagon: Manacost rescaled from 180 to 120/140/160/180/200

* Force Staff: Now requires a Ring of Regeneration instead of a Ring of Health (total price is still the same)
* Force Staff: Manacost increased from 25 to 100
* Force Staff: Health regen reduced from 5 to 2
* Hurricane Pike: Health regen reduced from 5.5 to 2
* Hurricane Pike: Manacost increased from 25 to 100

* Helm of the Dominator: Health regen decreased from 8 to 7
* Helm of the Dominator: No longer grants +5 attack speed to the item holder
* Helm of the Dominator: Bounty increased from 125 to 200

* Linken’s Sphere: All Stats reduced from 15 to 13

* Magic Wand: Now requires a 150 gold recipe instead of a Mango
* Magic Wand: Now provides +3 All Stats instead of +2 All Stats and 1.5 HP Regen
* Magic Wand: Max Charges increased from 17 to 20

* Enchanted Mango: On sale now from 100 to 70
* Enchanted Mango: Health regen decreased from 1 to 0.7
* Enchanted Mango: Consumed Mana restore reduced from 175 to 125
* Enchanted Mango: Daily Bonus Hero now gives 2 Mangoes

* Necronomicon: Duration increased from 50 to 60

* Phase Boots: During Phase your base turn rate is improved to 1.0 (the highest value, can still be lowered by other effects)
* Phase Boots: Active duration increased from 2.5 to 3 seconds
* Phase Boots: Active speed reduced from 24/20% to 20/16%

* Observer Ward: Gold/XP Bounty rescaled from a constant 100 Gold and 100 XP to growing over time with 100 + 2/min Gold and 50 + 4/min XP

* Sange: Recipe cost increased from 500 to 700
* Sange: Now grants Greater Maim
* Heaven’s Halberd: Now grants Greater Maim
* Yasha: Recipe cost increased from 500 to 700
* Manta Style: Recipe cost lowered from 900 to 500

* Alchemist: Chemical Rage Health regen increased from 40/48/56 to 40/55/70
* Alchemist: Bounty Runes bonus gold increased from 2.5 to 3x

* Ancient Apparition: Chilling Touch damage rescaled from 30/45/60/75 to 20/40/60/80
* Ancient Apparition: Chilling Touch no longer pierces Spell Immunity

* Arc Warden: Magnetic Field cooldown reduced from 35/30/25/20 to 20
* Arc Warden: Level 15 Talent changed from +3s Flux Duration to +400 Flux Cast Range

* Axe: Battle Hunger manacost rescaled from 75 to 50/60/70/80
* Axe: Base movement speed increased by 5

* Batrider: Base strength increased by 3

* Bloodseeker: Blood Rite ground vision now increased to match the AoE of the spell (from 400 to 600)
* Bloodseeker: Bloodrage cooldown reduced from 12/10/8/6 to 9/8/7/6

* Brewmaster: Primal Split Fire Permanent Immolation damage increased from 15/30/45 to 20/40/60

* Broodmother: Spiderite bounty reduced from 16-21 gold and 20 exp to 3 gold and 3 xp
* Broodmother: Spiderling bounty reduced from 11-13 gold and 31 exp to 9 gold and 9 xp
* Broodmother: Spiderite armor reduced from 8 to 0
* Broodmother: Spiderling armor reduced from 8 to 0
* Broodmother: Spiderling damage reduced from 18-19 to 14-16 (~19% less)
* Broodmother: Spawn Spiderling manacost reduced from 120 to 100
* Broodmother: Spawn Spiderling cooldown reduced from 10 to 11/10/9/8

* Chen: Hand of God heal improved from 250/375/500 to 250/400/550

* Crystal Maiden: Base armor increased by 1
* Crystal Maiden: Freezing Field attack speed slow increased from 30 to 60

* Dark Seer: Wall of Replica illusions incoming damage reduced from 300% to 200%
* Dark Seer: Wall of Replica illusions outgoing damage increased from 60/75/90% to 70/85/100%
* Dark Seer: Wall of Replica now auto attacks the hero it made the illusion of (can still be controlled)

* Dark Willow: Bedlam damage reduced from 60/140/220 to 60/120/180
* Dark Willow: Bedlam rotation duration increased from 1.5 to 1.8 seconds
* Dark Willow: Cursed Crown no longer grants vision after it stuns
* Dark Willow: Level 25 Talent increased from +1 Terrorize Duration to +1.5

* Dazzle: Fixed Poison Touch effective area covered not scaling properly with cast range bonuses

* Death Prophet: Base Health regen reduced from 2 to 1.5

* Earthshaker: Base damage increased by 3

* Ember Spirit: Flame Guard magical damage absorbed rescaled from 50/200/350/500 to 80/220/360/500
* Ember Spirit: Searing Chains duration rescaled from 1/2/2/3 to 1.5/2/2.5/3
* Ember Spirit: Searing Chains now does damage in 0.5 second intervals
* Ember Spirit: Searing Chains total damage rescaled from 80/120/240/300 to 90/160/230/300

* Enigma: Malefice stun duration rescaled from 0.25/0.5/0.75/1 to 0.4/0.6/0.8/1.0
* Enigma: Malefice cooldown rescaled from 15 to 18/17/16/15
* Enigma: Malefice manacost reduced from 110/130/150/160 to 100/120/140/160

* Faceless Void: Chronosphere cooldown increased from 140/125/110 to 140/130/120

* Invoker: Invoke manacost reduced from 60 to 40

* Io: Tether can now target Spell Immune allies
* Io: Tether cast point changed from 0.001 to 0
* Io: Tether no longer applies slow on impact
* Io: Spirits now apply a 20/40/60/80% movement speed slow on impact for 0.3 seconds
* Io: Spirits now have two fixed positions they go to, 700 and 100 (No longer granular with toggles, but just a single press action)
* Io: Spirits In/Out is just one ability now, alternates the direction (has a 1.5 second cooldown, same hotkey as spirits ability. Base cooldown/duration is still the same)
* Io: Spirits creep damage increased from 8/14/20/26 to 10/18/26/34
* Io: Spirits manacost from 150 to 120/130/140/150
* Io: Spirits collision AoE increased from 70 to 110
* Io: Spirits explosion damage AoE increased from 300 to 360
* Io: Level 10 Talent changed from +400 Spirits Max Range to +25% XP
* Io: Level 25 Talent changed from Tether Stuns to -60s Relocate Cooldown

* Leshrac: Lightning Storm manacost increased from 75/90/105/120 to 80/100/120/140

* Lich: Level 20 Talent increased from +120 Gold/Min to +180

* Lycan: Summon Wolves health increased from 200/240/280/320 to 230/260/290/320
* Lycan: Summon Wolves damage increased from 17/28/37/46 to 26/34/42/50

* Mirana: Leap speed buff duration increased from 2 to 2.5
* Mirana: Leap attack speed rescaled from 25/50/75/100 to 40/60/80/100
* Mirana: Moonlight Shadow now grants 15% movement speed bonus while invisible
* Monkey King: Primal Spring manacost reduced from 130/120/110/100 to 100

* Morphling: Adaptive Strike Talent now has a 300 cast range buffer for the secondary targets
* Morphling: Level 10 Talent from +300 Waveform Range to +350
* Morphling: Level 25 Talent from +2 Multishot Adaptive Strike to +3

* Necrophos: Reaper’s Scythe respawn time penalty increased from 10/20/30 to 15/30/45

* Omniknight: Purification cooldown increased from 11 to 14/13/12/11
* Omniknight: Base armor reduced by 1

* Outworld Devourer: Fixed Arcane Orb not using mana if it misses on the target
* Outworld Devourer: Arcane Orb manacost increased from 100/120/140/160 to 110/140/170/200

* Ogre Magi: Bloodlust on self now grants you 30/50/70/90 Attack Speed (default is 30/40/50/60)

* Pangolier: Rolling Thunder no longer gets canceled when rooted or disabled (rolls in place instead)
* Pangolier: Rolling Thunder cooldown increased from 70/65/60 to 70
* Pangolier: Swashbuckle manacost increased from 70/80/90/100 to 80/90/100/110
* Pangolier: Shield Crash cooldown increased from 13 to 19/17/15/13
* Pangolier: Fixed Shield Crash counting Spell Immune heroes
* Pangolier: Level 10 Talent reduced from +2 Mana Regen to +1.5

* Pudge: Base damage increased by 7
* Pudge: Rot slow reduced from 17/22/27/32 to 11/18/25/32

* Pugna: Base armor increased by 1
* Pugna: Level 15 Talent increased from +2 Nether Ward Health to +3

* Puck: Level 20 Talent from -5s Waning Rift Cooldown to -8s

* Queen of Pain: Sonic Wave damage increased from 290/380/470 to 320/410/500
* Queen of Pain: Sonic Wave Scepter damage increased from 325/440/555 to 370/480/590

* Riki: Tricks of the Trade now attacks at a slower pace, nerfed from 0.5/0.45/0.4 to 0.6/0.55/0.5

* Rubick: Telekinesis lift duration rescaled from 1.5/1.75/2/2.25 to 1.1/1.5/1.9/2.3

* Sand King: Caustic Finale no longer triggers when a unit is denied

* Shadow Demon: Strength growth increased from 2.2 to 2.4

* Shadow Fiend: Level 10 Talent reduced from 10% Spell Amplification to 8%
* Shadow Fiend: Level 15 Talent reduced from +40 Movement Speed to +35

* Shadow Shaman: Fixed Ether Shock effective area covered not scaling properly with cast range bonuses

* Silencer: Glaives of Wisdom from 15/30/45/60% to 25/40/55/70%
* Silencer: Global Silence duration increased from 4/5/6 to 4.5/5.25/6
* Silencer: Level 15 Talent increased from +90 Gold/Min to +120

* Slark: Base HP regen increased from 2.75 to 3.25
* Slark: Shadow Dance move speed bonus increased from 30/35/40% to 30/40/50%

* Spectre: Spectral Dagger manacost rescaled from 130/140/150/160 to 100/120/140/160
* Spectre: Haunt illusion damage increased from 40 to 40/50/60%

* Spirit Breaker: Greater Bash movespeed bonus increased from 15% to 17%
* Spirit Breaker: Netherstrike’s knockback now pushes the enemy twice the distance

* Storm Spirit: Level 15 Talent increased from +300 Health to +400

* Sven: Cleave distance increased from 570 to 625 (same as Battle Fury)
* Sven: Cleave end radius increased from 300 to 330 (same as Battle Fury)

* Terrorblade: Base HP regen reduced from 3 to 1.5
* Terrorblade: Reflection illusion now disappears when the reflection slow debuff is removed
* Terrorblade: Sunder minimum HP rescaled from 25% to 35/30/25%
* Terrorblade: Sunder cast range reduced from 550 to 475

* Timbersaw: Whirling Death attribute reduction now considers bonus attributes (instead of only base)
* Timbersaw: Whirling Death attribute reduction lowered from 15% to 13%

* Tiny: Tree Grab area damage reduced from 100% to 30/40/50/60%

* Treant Protector: Leech Seed duration increased from 4.5 to 5.25 (1 extra pulse)

* Tusk: Ice Shards duration reduced from 7 to 4/5/6/7
* Tusk: Snowball Speed reduced from 675 to 600/625/650/675
* Tusk: Frozen Sigil no longer provides flying vision (ground only now)

* Underlord: Firestorm overtime percentage based damage no longer affects Roshan/Ancients
* Underlord: Dark Rift manacost from 75/150/225 to 100/200/300

* Undying: Tombstone spawn interval improved from 4.5/4/3.5/3 to 4/3.5/3/2.5
* Undying: Level 15 Talent increased from +30 Decay Duration to +50
* Undying: Level 20 Talent increased from +4 Tombstone Attacks to +6

* Ursa: Base armor increased by 2

* Venomancer: Poison Nova duration increased from 16 to 18 seconds

* V isage: Grave Chill duration reduced from 3.25/4 .5/5.75/7 to 3/4/5/6

* Warlock: Chaotic Offering Golem health increased from 1000/1500/2000 to 1000/2000/3000
* Warlock: Chaotic Offering Golem Permnaent Immolation DPS increased from 30/40/50 to 30/50/70

* Weaver: Health regen increased from 1.5 to 2.5
* Weaver: The Swarm attack damage from 14/16/18/20 to 18/20/22/24

* Wi ndranger: Powershot damage increased from 180/260/340/420 to 180/270/360/450
* Windranger: Focus Fire attack speed increased from 350 to 400
* Windranger: Focus Fire now always fires on the target unless you are attacking another target, or pressed stop and are not moving.

* Winter Wyvern: Winter’s Curse duration increased from 3.25/4/4.75 to 4/4.75/5.5 seconds
* Winter Wyvern: Winter’s Curse attack speed bonus reduced from 85 to 55

* Wraith King: Wraithfire Blast manacost rescaled from 140 to 95/110/125/140
* Wraith King: Wraithfire Blast cooldown rescaled from 8 to 11/10/9/8
* Wraith King: Level 10 Talent changed from +40 Wraithfire DPS to +1.5s Wraithfire Blast Slow Duration

* Witch Doctor: Maledict cooldown increased from 20 to 50/40/30/20

* Zeus: Level 15 Talent increased from +1% Static Field to +1.5%

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Xbox Live Creators Program empowers passionate developers everywhere to share their games with the world. In the Creator’s Corner series, Xbox Live Creators Program developers will share what inspires and motivates them to design and create their games, what challenges and creative solutions they pursue to bring their games to fruition, and how they leverage Xbox Live capabilities to enhance their games for Xbox. Today, we’ll be chatting with Ben and Max Snyder about their experience creating and bringing Fighties to the Xbox audience.

Tell us about your developer journey — what inspired you to start developing games and what continues to motivate you?
We went to school to get software engineering degrees. We like to play games so whenever we could choose our school projects we would make a game. The thing that continues to motivate us is the game ideas in our heads that we want to make.

What was the first game you created, and how did that experience contribute to Fighties?
Fighties was the first game we created as Pillow Pig Games. Before that we individually made small games for school projects. While making the small games we learned the basics of game development which helped us create Fighties.

Tell us about your team and how you came together (briefly)
We are a team of two. Max does the programming and music. Ben does the art and animation. We are twin brothers.

What’s been the most rewarding part of developing and shipping your game in the Creators Program?
The most rewarding part was winning the Dream.Build.Play challenge. (Editor’s Note: Dream.Build.Play is a global community of gamemakers. It’s a place where individuals can engage with independent developers around the world, and the companies, technologies, and leading creators that support them. The Dream.Build.Play Challenge is an annual skills-based contest looking for the latest and greatest UWP games form the indie developer community).

What’s been the most frustrating roadblock/challenge you’ve faced in developing a game, and how did you solve for it?
The most frustrating challenge We faced in developing a game was making the backgrounds for Fighties. Ben doesn’t like drawing backgrounds and when he does he doesn’t think it looks good. To solve this, we simplified the backgrounds as much as possible.

Now that the game is available in the Creators Program, what would your team like to work on next?
We are working on our next game. We haven’t come up with the name for it yet. It has trains, sword fighting, and animal riding.

What’s your favorite game, ever, and why?
Max’s favorite game is StarCraft 2 because it’s a really fun and challenging game. Ben’s favorite game is The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker because of the art style.

If you could be any character in any game, who would you be and what would be the first thing you do?
If we could be any characters in any game, we would be Mario and Luigi. The first thing we would do is race in karts.

Thanks so much to Ben and Max for this interview and bringing Fighties to the Xbox community. Tune in to an exclusive interview and live-stream with Ben and Max on Mixer.com/Xbox on Monday, April 23 at 11 a.m. PST.

Check out all the other incredible games in the Microsoft Store or in-console within the Creators Collection and stay tuned to Xbox Wire for monthly posts featuring Creators Program developers from all around the world!

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