Category: Islands

Steamworks Island

MASSIVE PUN AHEAD

Smockers

We got another sketch from the Creators, specifically Binary Bard, that develops a “Hub” that will be located on Steamworks Island. They promise that they will clear everything up about this sketch in times to come… because right now it just looks like a potpourri of drawings that feature metal gears with attaching pipes and gizmos. Very mystifying.

One of the places you’ll visit on Steamworks Island is what we call the Hub. It’s a sight to see! A rickety tower, a massive drawbridge, and pot-bellied steam stoves powering everything. Safe to say that you’ve never seen anything like the Hub before.

Er, at least, you won’t have seen anything like it. To start with, this marvel of modern engineering just looked like this:

Yes, it’s hard to see what all the hubbub is about — yet. Just wait until you see how this one develops!

The post is called, “What’s all the Hub-bub?”.

…BWAHAHAHAHA.

Get it? HUB-BUB! Because a hubbub is an uproar? And we’re talking about HUBS?

🙂

~Smockers

Membership, PHB Sneak Peeks, Steamworks Island

Steamworks surprise? :O

Shaggy Tornado

UPDATE: Zey from the Poptropica Help Chat and a commenter on the PHB got his member’s only item today! He says that it is a Steamworks Mech. Pilot’s oufit!  It even has a special action! When you press space bar, the goggles move up and down! Picture below:

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Steamworks Island surprise coming for y’all members out there in the Poptropica world! Just like Skullduggery last May!

A Steamworks surprise is coming

There’s a special treat coming tomorrow for Poptropica Members: a special Steamworks-related mystery item!

All will be revealed tomorrow. What could it be? The suspense is killing me!

…fortunately, I am well versed in suspenders.

COMIC KID

Wonder what it is? A teaser trailer and a costume like last time? Or maybe its something different. I guess you LUCKY members get to find out tomorrow! Catch ya later dudes! (And dudettes! xD)

*Vanishes with a wisp of smoke*

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Hijuyo posting:

Again thanks to Adiboy101, we’ve uncovered another Poptropica Creator! Jennifer Wood is the Managing Editor at Poptropica, according to her LinkedIn profile. Surprisingly, there are no females on the Poptropica Creators’ Blog.

Also, we believe that the other Creator we recently uncovered – Mitch Krpata – is Hades on the PCB. Why? Looking at the Poptropica Assets website, you can find that the Bolas Plant SWF for Steamworks Island was posted by [email protected] – and on the PCB, the same animation was posted by Hades. 😀

Yes, we stalk. ;D

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!

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…