Year: 2010

Hellos & Goodbyes

Shaggy Tornado is in the PHB House!!!

Shaggy Tornado

Hey guys! Its Shaggy Tornado. I’m the PHB’s newest author! 😀 You can call me ST, Shaggy, or whatever else you can think of. 😀

I have to thank Hijuyo for all of this! THX so much Juyo!!!! xD

I’m a 13 year old boy who lives in sunny California in the USA.  I love reading, playing Poptropica of course xD, playing ma DSi, and surfing the internet. I love taking vacations a lot cause it’s fun to see new places and take pictures! :). I also have a PHF account and a Facebook account. Music interests are Owl City and Allstar Weekend 😀

So I hope you guys can welcome me to the PHB and catch ya on the flip side! (Quote from a DS game xD)

-Shaggy Tornado

Sneak Peeks, Steamworks Island, Store

BLARGH THIS PLANT IS GUNNA EAT CHU

Cool Wing

Like ah said, this plant is gonna eat chu.

Plant monster, attack!

We’ve got a pretty scary looking monster at this point, but what good is a monster if it can’t attack? This monster can swing its seed pods around from its head, before throwing them at you at high speed.


Looks like you’re pretty small next to this thing, doesn’t it? That’s not all — we haven’t even seen the plant monster in motion yet.

That happened a couple of days ago. ITS A PLANT.

ITS GONNA EAT CHU.

Run. Run for your lives~

And then look! A summery post. This must be Shark Boy’s bestie!

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…

I hope everyone is having a fun summer, while they squish red crabs on the beach. If you want to surprise your friends, try out the Hammerhead costume. It comes with a warm, limp fish.

Or it’s Shark Boy’s alter ego….

And then, the creators go and post something, WITH NO ANIMATION. D8<

Steamworks monster animation test

Now that the we’ve decided what this plant monster should look like on the new Poptropica Island, Steamworks Island, the next step is to decide how the monster should move. We put together a quick and dirty animation test:

Bet you wouldn’t want to run into that thing in a dark alley!

All this has taken us nearly to the completion of a plant monster for Steamworks Island. We may still decide to change the monter’s behavior, or some aspects of its appearance. After a few final touches, we’ll put it all together — but you’ll have to wait until Steamworks Island launches to see it!

Hmph. Darn you creators. ._.

EDIT: “Lol, they didn’t embed it correctly. :P Anyways, I found the file lol. http://sites.google.com/site/poptropicaassets/BolasPlant_Projection01.swf It’s really cool.
-Giant Fire”

On a comment on this post, this appeared before my big eyes. Giant Fire found the awesome animation!

Big congrats and so on ect.

Thankiez as well!

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Finnmona and Brookezus

Smockers

During your current adventures in Poptropica, you might find two more new advertisement buildings that you can try your hand at to get fabulous prizes!

Goldfish:

The snacks that smile back have been all sucked up a vacuum cleaner! It’s your job to rescue them all by going through a maze trying to find doors that cage your cheesy friends within the two-minute time limit. Clicking on the keypads starts a short video that you have sit through. (You’ll shortly realize how thirty seconds can feel like an hour.) After the video finishes, you are given a numeric code that you must punch into the keypad. Pressing the big red button finally lifts the door; you can then run up to the Goldfish as it jumps up to your screen happily. You repeat this for all five Goldfish, and you’re set! Just be wary of any incoming metal rock thingies trying to hinder your path to success. All in a day’s work! Also, if you have some sort of object that enables you to fly, use it by all means! It’ll definitely make your journey much smoother.

lol, paradox

For all of your good deeds, you receive a ‘Goldfish Outfit’ and a ‘Goldfish Stalker Follower’! I am sporting the two in the above picture. But if you’re like me, you don’t want to sit through multiple monotonous clips just to get a code. Luckily, the codes are the same for everyone. So, I can just list the codes right here:

  1. Xtreme (orange, excited face) – 53279
  2. Brooke (light yellow, female) – 34418
  3. Swimmington (orange, smug face) – 54234
  4. Finn (yellow, sunglasses) – 89721
  5. Gilbert (brown, salt on body) – 73592

Ramona and Beezus:

The movie starring Joey King and Selena Gomez has been made into an advertisement building to spread the word for its premiere on July 23rd. Ramona wants you to help her paint her mural. You must completely breathe color into her painting in ONE MINUTE, or else you fail. You must never fail Ramona. To succeed, you have to constantly make sure you have lots of paint to brush all over her picture. What I did was just charge until my paint gauge was full and just scrub with my mouse as fast as I could in horizontal strokes. You will be rewarded with a ‘Magic Paintbrush’ once you complete her task. If you are stationed near a fellow Poptropican and you press the space bar, you will paint them a new color!

I made the Goldfish guy gold. There's probably a really cheesy (HA!) pun I could make about this; I just don't know what.

EDIT: Special thanks to captain_t3chn0 and Loud Shark on the Poptropica Help Chat for informing me about other ways to have fun with your Magic Paintbrush!

A. Pictured here is what appears to be Hercules un-becoming (is that a word?) a statue. All you have to do is wave your brush in front of him, and he just suddenly jumps out of his inanimate counterpart. Now he can have his statue and his moving limbs! That’s like hitting two clones of Hermes with one stone.

B. You can paint the cat. Have I mentioned that your magical paintbrush also paints the subject’s eyes? ANIMAL ABUSE!

C. You can paint the dummies. What’s interesting is that if you paint one of the dummies it will also paint the other dummies simultaneously. 😮

ALSO, for anybody who’s having a hard time finding these ads, I personally found the Goldfish ad on Shark Tooth Island and the Ramona and Beezus ad on Early Poptropica Island. If you can’t find them here, I recommend searching across the other islands’ respective Main Streets.

~Smockers


Steamworks Island

Furious Flora :O

Green Boa

And here’s GB with the Neeeeewwwww PCB post! (hope Hijuyo doesn’t mind me taking over the show xD)

Green Boa: Hi all! I’m Green Boa, with todays episode, Furious Flora! (:

Hades: Blah blah blah, give me time to read the post.

Green Boa: OMBR! YOU AGAIN?!

Hades: Miss me? *winkwink*

(Audience Boos)

Hades: Has everyone forgotten what happened to the little children in the last post? I can remind you… >:D

Green Boa: O_O Eeep!

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

After settling on a sketch we liked, it was time for to give a little more life to the plant monster that will be menacing players on Steamworks Island.

Below are two approaches to the plant monster. Can you spot the differences between them?


Little details, like the color of the planter, and big ones, like the plant’s eye, can make a big difference in the monster’s appearance.

The next step: animation test!

Green Boa: It doesn’t look that dangerous. O_o
Hades: Foolish mortal. Bola is highly poisonous, highly aggressive, highly-
Green Boa: Looks highly sleepy to me. ._.
Hades: That’s part of his trick, stupid thing.
Green Boa: He actually looks pretty cute. 🙂
Hades: Would you like to pet him? *takes bola out of pocket*
Green Boa: Soo cuuuute.
(Bola Bites hand. HARD)
 
Green Boa: OMR!! GET IT OFF!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Audience: 😯
 
Hades: 😈
(Green Boa jumps in pain towards the film camera. Camera falls over and breaks making screen blank)
 
O_O
Sneak Peeks, Steamworks Island

Steamworks in Sketch

Slanted Fish

Hijuyo: Hey readers, this is “Steamworks in Sketch”, starring our special guest speaker – Hades from the Poptropica Creators’ Blog!
Hades: Look, I saw what you guys did to Captain Crawfish. And anyone who dares touch me now will be sent to the Underworld… forever!

(A loud gasp comes from the audience and several scared kids try to run away.)

Hades: Not so fast! I haven’t even begun! *zaps finger in your direction* CHARON!

(Hades’ ferryman, Charon, scoops up the now dead kids and carries them away.)

Hijuyo: O_O
Hades: Okay, I think you guys get the point. Captain Crawfish may have been a weakling, but not me. There’ll be no messing around with ME, the great Hades!
Hijuyo: Uh…
Hades: ARE YOU CHALLENGING ME?! Yes? No? Well, the show must go on. As I was saying, I, the great Hades, mightier than all you midgets, will be presenting you “Steamworks in Sketch” – amazing, never-before-seen sketches of the upcoming STEAMWORKS ISLAND, where I will be RULING ALL OF POPTROPICA!!
Hijuyo: Ahem.
Hades: Oh right, here it is:

Evolution of a Steamworks Island monster

For Steamworks Island, the we’ll pit you against a variety of mutated plant monsters. But how did we make the creepiest, crawliest, ickiest plant monsters around?

We started by brainstorming.

These are just some of the sketches we drew to help us visualize what our monstrous creations would look like. Not all of the sketches will make it into the final product — in fact, most won’t — but this allows us to try out different ideas. Then we’ll take the very best concepts and work them into Poptropica.

Hijuyo: This island sounds… dangerous? Full of evils and deaths and all things scary? o_O Those poor plants! Innocent life turned to killers! D:
Hades: Yeah! This is the perfect island to take over, to cause fear and death and destruction and…

(One day later…)

Hades: …oh, when this island’s ready, it’ll be MINE! Mine to take over, to rule, every inch will belong to ME! Those plants are my minions! I…
Hijuyo: You were saying…?
Hades: …Right. Anyway. You probably need to see more of the Steamworks stuff that I’ll be colonizing:

Steamworks monster sketch

Yesterday, you saw some of the earliest ideas for the plant monsters that will appear on the next Poptropica island, Steamworks Island. This one seemed appropriately icky.


It’s still no more than a sketch — just an outline of an idea. But we’re already thinking about how the plant will look when it’s colored and detailed, and how it will move. The next step is to take this sketch and Poptropica-ize it!

Hades: Got that? This enhanced plant monster is gonna be colored and detailed! It’ll move! It’ll be Poptropica-ized! Oh yeah, and just look at that pic’s name – BolasSketch! Its name is Bolas! And it’ll be all mine to control! MUAHAHAHAHAHEhehehe…