Category: Steamworks Island

The silence of empty streets welcomes you. Metal and machines fill the lonely halls, and a growing mystery lurks behind a shroud of steam. Can you uncover what happened to the inhabitants of this ancient island? Gear up for a steam-powered adventure you will never forget!

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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…

Steamworks Island

Curtain Call for Steamworks island! :O

Green Boa

New island has been revealed! With a snazzy name, ‘Steamworks’. 😀 (Ok Coder, how did you know? 😉 )

Friday, July 2, 2010

All week we’ve been showing you sneak peeks of the newest Poptropica island currently in development, and we’ve promised to reveal the island’s name.

The time has come. My fellow Poptropicans, the Poptropica creators are proud to announce their newest creation:


STEAMWORKS ISLAND is coming soon!

Make sure to visit the official Poptropica creators’ blog often for the latest news and announcements about Steamworks Island, including some of the incredible gameplay features we have in store.

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MASTER MIME

It seems to be a ‘structure’ theme with robots, gizmos and gadgets, wild and wacky plants, and a deserted looking town. o__O Anyway, this island looks really cool! It had better be, too, sailing on a pheonix warbird can get boring. 😆
-Green Boa
Sneak Peeks, Steamworks Island

Da BOMB :O

Slanted Fish

Da bomb! Da bomb! Who knows what dangers this could hold?

New island sneak peek week: It’s the bomb

Yesterday to keep the sneak peeks rolling out the door, we showed concept sketches of dynamite for the new island.

Here is the finished version. This is something that you are not allowed to hold while chasing your brothers around the campfire.

Look at all those gauges and wires. I had to read a 500 page manual to learn how to use it properly. Though, I accidentally discovered that throwing it works too.

Now that you’ve seen a glimpse of the design style of some of these items, can you guess what kind of island this is going to be?

Don’t forget to come back tomorrow for the announcement of the new island name!

o_O

And the end still looks like a rat’s tail… wait… could this stick of dynamite be, in fact, a rat? A live cheese-eating mouse…? :O JK. xD

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Long awaited poll results about Poptropica membership! The question was, simply: “What do you think of Poptropica’s membership?”

  • HOW COULD YOU, CREATORS?! Worst update ever! D: | 4,019 votes | 57%
  • Meh. I don’t really care. :/ | 1,136 votes | 16%
  • Awesome! I already have it. 🙂 | 895 votes | 13%
  • Great idea on Poptropica’s part. I’m going to get it soon. | 779 votes | 11%
  • Uh, what does that mean? -.o | 249 votes | 4%

Looks like our PHB readers are mostly anti-membership. Wise, very wise. 😀

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In other news…

  • Check out this Xat chatroom owned by Fred9005 – http://xat.com/fred9005!
  • We’re all sad to have one of our “original 3 PHB authors” – Codien – end his time with this blog. But of course, this gives him the opportunity to start new journeys in life and we wish him all the best.
  • A new staff member will join the PHB’s Poptropica Help Team soon enough.
  • We’re getting close to July 26th, 2010 – and that means the PHB’s 2-year anniversary is coming up! Stay tuned for more. 🙂