Club Penguin Island

Club Penguin Island

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Developer(s) Disney Canada Inc.
Publisher(s) Disney Mobile
Platform(s) iOS, Android
Release
  • WW: March 29, 2017
Genre(s) Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
Mode(s) Multiplayer

Club Penguin Island is a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game for mobile devices, which is the successor to Club Penguin.[1] The game was released worldwide on March 29, 2017.[2]

The game's public beta testing period took place in Australia and New Zealand from December 15, 2016 to its worldwide release, and in Canada from January 13, 2017 to its worldwide release.[3][4]

The gameplay is similar to that of the original Club Penguin, though it runs on a three-dimensional game engine rather than Adobe Flash Player.[5]

Club Penguin Island received mixed reviews from critics[note 1] and mostly negative user reviews upon its worldwide release.[2]

History

The game was originally known under the code name of Project: Super Secret, first used in 2014 and teased with sneak peeks in June 2015. However, Project Super Secret was initially said to be Disney Mix, with the game's actual development confirmed to have started in 2015[6]. On November 17, 2016, the project was revealed to be Club Penguin Island.[7]

The game's closed beta took place between its announcement and December 2016 in North America.[8]

A semi-private "geo-beta" took place in Australia and New Zealand between December 15, 2016 to its worldwide release.[9] This beta was extended to iOS users in Canada on January 13, 2017.[10]

The original Flash game's servers went offline on the day of the game's release, on March 30, 2017, at 12:01:25 AM PDT (7:01:25 AM UTC).[11][12]

Notes

  1. ↑ Results calculated by averaging these reviews:

References

  1. ↑ Perez, Sarah. "Club Penguin is shutting down". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
  2. 1 2 Frank, Allegra (March 30, 2017). "No one’s feeling Club Penguin’s replacement". Polygon. Vox Media. Retrieved April 3, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Club Penguin Island: Now Available in Australia and New Zealand!". Club Penguin. December 15, 2016. Archived from the original on January 31, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Club Penguin Island Geo-Beta: Now Available in Canada!". Club Penguin. January 13, 2017. Archived from the original on March 26, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Project: Super Secret... Revealed!". Club Penguin. November 17, 2016. Archived from the original on March 26, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  6. ↑ https://twitter.com/SpikeHikeCP/status/761941397968596992
  7. ↑ "Project: Super Secret... Revealed!". Club Penguin. November 17, 2016. Archived from the original on March 26, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Club Penguin Island Closed Beta Q&A". Club Penguin. December 7, 2016. Archived from the original on March 26, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Club Penguin Island: Now Available in Australia and New Zealand!". Club Penguin. December 15, 2016. Archived from the original on March 26, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Club Penguin Island Geo-Beta: Now Available in Canada!". Club Penguin. January 13, 2017. Archived from the original on March 26, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  11. ↑ "clubpenguin Guest Services - When will the Club Penguin virtual world be closing down?". web-beta.archive.org. Archived from the original on March 26, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  12. ↑ "Youtube video of the game going down.". Youtube.com. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
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