Hey Poptropicans! Several months ago, an aspiring game developer began working on a Poptropica-inspired game that came to be known as Blimp Journey. Though progress was promising, sadly the project has since been halted. Now you’re invited to continue this work!
Allen Dawodu, also known as Looks to the Moon or mysystemlagz on Discord, along with a small team, has so far released a tutorial and two simple islands which can still be played on BlimpJourney.com for now. Check out screenshots below from the adventure Scorched Complex, which includes Poptropica-like elements such as point-and-click movement, collecting items, and puzzles:
The tutorial, as well as another quest called Dragon’s Claw Volcano, are accessible by going to the map via the hamburger menu in the corner. The latter features more colored artwork and puzzles:
Credit also goes to era for story development, Antonio Raymond for music, Snoopypilots for artwork, and the (now gone) Blimp Journey Discord community for playtesting and offering feedback.
Though Allen has stopped working on Blimp Journey due to limited time and resources, he’s inviting anyone with game development skills and passion to continue his work (built with the Godot engine) using the source code and assets for the project, now publicly available on GitHub. This repository, he says, has everything you’ll need to create character designs and islands relatively quickly. And if you do end up creating something with it, we at the PHB would love to hear about it!
While we’re sad to see the end of Blimp Journey, it’s definitely left an impact for Poptropica fan game development, as there are currently a couple other games in the works that have been encouraged by this project. 💥 Poptropica Legends, led by HPuterpop, is aiming for a demo release in June, while NewTropica, led by FoundOasis, aims to recreate a Poptropica launcher like Flashpoint. We’re keeping our eyes peeled for updates, so stay tuned with us! 👀
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