Tag: fan game

Poptropica: Legends

Poptropica: Legends Demo Releases July 2025 🎮🗓️

Gentle Dolphin

Hey, Poptropicans! We’re excited to share some updates on the anticipated fan game, Poptropica: Legends. Let’s get the biggest news out of the way: the game’s demo is set to release in July 2025!🎉🎮🗓️

That’s right! The Poptropica: Legends demo is releasing next month!

Get ready to rediscover, recollect, and reignite in the Meridian’s Lighthouse Beta! Patrons get early access to the Lighthouse beta next month, then everyone gets full access to the polished version released sometime after that. Here’s what to expect in this playable preview:

  • 2 Sidescrolling Scenes
  • 3 Top-Down Scenes
  • Soundtrack
  • Dialogue
  • Inventory
  • Achievements
  • Sound Effects
  • ~30 minutes of gameplay

The game’s creator, HPuterpop, wants to celebrate the game’s demo release by sharing some new progress on the project.

First up, we have a curated collection of assets: cursors, items cards, backgrounds, character sprites, and even the main menu! These assets clearly take inspiration from Poptropica’s while putting a unique pixelated spin on them. By the way, that character sheet may look familiar to those who have read HPuterpop’s How to Draw a Poptropican essay. ✏️

You may have also spotted a “Free Play” section on the main menu. While you explore the world as Meridian in Story Mode, you can create and play as a custom character in Free Play Mode, just like in OG Poptropica!

Now, here are a couple of new faces joining the story: an ancient spirit named Booga, who is inspired by the Shark Tooth Island temple keypad, and two organizations called the Bureau of Heroic Poptropicans (BHP) and the Poptropica Espionage Network (PEN) . Hmm, that BHP sounds a little familiar… 🤔

Finally, check out this video preview of an in-game conversation between Meridian and Puck! It’s a neat look at how you interact with NPCs, complete with detailed sprites and 10/10 voice acting. 😜

Big thanks to HPuterpop for sharing these with us! If you want to stay updated on the game’s progress, check out the Poptropica: Legends website and follow the game’s social media accounts. You can also contribute to the game on its Patreon, the Creators’ Blog!

That’s all for now! We hope you like this look into Legends’ development. Stay tuned for the demo this July, and stay in the know with the BHP PHB!

Thank you for reading, and have a good day!

—Gentle Dolphin 🐬

Uncategorized, Web Development

Blimp Journey: Passing the baton for a Poptropica-inspired game 👨🏾‍💻🫆

Slanted Fish

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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Guest Posts, Poptropica: Legends

Launching the Poptropica: Legends fan game development campaign and website 🗺️

Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans, this is a guest post by HPuterpop. Enjoy!

Hey Poptropicans! It’s been a while since my last announcement, which if you missed, here’s part 1 and part 2 — but I’ve returned with a lot of fun stuff to show you. Poptropica: Legends has officially launched its campaign and website!

There is plenty to explore over there, including character pages, an island tour, and maybe even some hidden secrets… Please note that for the best viewing experience, the website should be accessed on a desktop.

Check it out at www.poplegendsgame.com!

So what can you expect from this game? Poptropica: Legends will be a return to form for classic Poptropica islands – get ready for puzzles, action, detailed locations and beautiful character art! Legends will feature sidescrolling AND top-down isometric gameplay, and buttery smooth overworld combat. We hope to rival the original game’s mechanics (especially the AS3 and Haxe versions 😬), while harkening back to the best of that game engine.

The first four chapters of Legends are heavily inspired by classic islands, with Chapter 1: Pendulum Island being the in-world name of Time Tangled Island from Classic Pop. This island also combines other locations found in Classic Pop, like River City from Shrink Ray Island and Poptropica Towers from Early Poptropica. Pendulum Island was named after Peter Pendulum, who helped invent time travel and put the island on the map, so to speak. But he’s not the only classic character you’ll meet in chapter 1 — look forward to Dr. Hare making a simply hopping appearance, among others!

Before Meridian can begin his adventure on Pendulum Island, however, we’ll need to establish a few locations that will return throughout the game. That’s why our first goal is to release Northern Skydock, a kind of prologue to the Legends saga. Meridian lives here, in this small town that serves as a pit stop for travelers passing through. With shops, restaurants, and colorful townsfolk, this will be your first look at Legends in action. Northern Skydock will also include a visit to the Bureau of Heroic Poptropicans, or the BHP, where Meridian works alongside Poptropica’s brightest adventurers.

We don’t have a concrete date for this first launch, as building Northern Skydock will be a daunting and time consuming task — this is where we will need to build UI, controls, and other concrete parts of the game.

And this is where you come in — all of this is going to be pretty costly to produce! For a full breakdown, please view this spreadsheet for a ballpark of what kind of costs we’re looking at. I’m planning on asking for $16,900 USD to get Northern Skydock off the ground, which is a conservative estimate — every bit helps!

We will be running a Kickstarter campaign to fund this project, which hasn’t launched yet, but will soon. On top of this, please consider contributing to our Patreon, Creator’s Blog! You’ll get to see exclusive behind the scenes previews, get your name in the credits of the game itself, as well as access to developer livestreams (usually with me)!

The game will be free to play, so any funds sent our way will only make Northern Skydock a reality faster.

(PHB editor’s note: All donations are handled by the team at Poptropica: Legends, independent of the Poptropica Help Blog. Donations will only be used for the fan game’s production, pending Poptropica’s go-ahead.)

Thanks for reading, and I hope you’re excited to experience Poptropica: Legends!

That’s all for now,

Andrew A.K.A. HPuterpop

Hope you enjoyed this guest post by HPuterpop. If you did, you might also enjoy reading his ‘My Place in Poptropica’ story — the first one ever!

The Poptropica Help Blog welcomes interesting Poptropica insights from anyone in the Poptropica community with thoughts to share. Interested in writing for the PHB? We’d love to hear from you!