Sunday, April 10, 2016

Club Penguin Customs - Puffle Party (Part 1)

Hello penguins! Today I will show you a few rooms for the Puffle Party that I have created. I made about 8 to show you today. So let's get started! Please note that if I missed a puffle domain, it means that I think the last version of that domain was good. If that domain has been replaced, the replacement has been relocated.
This is the Book Room, also known as the Blue Puffle domain. It has a little playset from the Forest from the Puffle Party 2012. There is a Blue Puffle Rug taken from the Pet Shop. A blue beanbag chair is next to the blue reading chair, which has been recolored from brown. A few of the books on the bookcase have been recolored blue. The books and flower pot on top have been changed to various shades of blue. 2 of the walls have a new coat of paint. The orange couch has been replaced with the red one from the 5th Anniversary Party. The lampshade is now blue and has beach balls on it. The PENGUIN ART section on the wall has some new art. The biggest one, which was previously blank, has been filled in by a blue puffle from the actual Club Penguin Fan Art page. The red and green puffles on the painting in the bottom right have been recolored blue. A beachball has been placed next to the middle mancala table, which I added. A blue book has been added to the table with the lamp on it. Blue Puffle balloons have been placed in various locations around the room. Blue Puffles are located on the top of the bookcase and on both of the sofas.

UPDATE: The Lighthouse from the Puffle Party 2013 also includes real fan art in the paintings, so I think it would fit even better using real fan art here, knowing that.

This has been a sample. Click "Read More" to see four more awesome custom rooms like this!

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Prehistoric Party 2016 Review

Wow, this has taken a long time to make.

Hello penguins! The Prehistoric Party 2016 ended February 3rd, so this is a review of the party.
First of all, before we begin, I have pasted our walkthrough video for the party below to recap.



The art was good, but most of it was reused. The Prehistoric Beach added the Time Trekker and removed the playground, but the rooms were otherwise the same as they were in 2014. One thing to mention, the volcano is no longer available. The place where the volcano entrance was located in 2014 was replaced with the 2013 version of the room. The Scary Ice was lackluster because instead of using the version without the shark (shown below), they just covered up the shark with gray.
Scary Ice - Second half of the Prehistoric Party 2014
Scary Ice - Prehistoric Party 2016
The velociraptor player card and sprite were also the wrong color. The playercard showed a pink velociraptor, but the sprite showed the black/red variant.

The tasks were very easy. In 2014. It took a while to search for the eggs sometimes. In 2016, I never had the problem of not finding the egg, not even for one round. I also didn't have to do any construction or anything for building the UFO's power source, which I would have preferred. If we had some sort of puzzle game where all of the meteorite shards had to fit together a certain way, that would be great.

The music was the same as it was in 2014, and I have no comments about that party's music. Moving on.

As for interactivity, there was a bunch. But not nearly enough as there was in 2014. The playground set from 2013-14 has been replaced by the Time Trekker. I know the Trekker had to be there, but what happened to the playset? Was it destroyed? And from what I noticed, the Prehistoric Cafe's back door (that led to Tricera Town) has been replaced by a fire pit for no reason. It doesn't work. Also, pteranodons couldn't fly more than 1/2 of a meter off of the ground, so the rings at Ptero Town did absolutely nothing. The volcano from the Prehistoric Party 2014 wasn't there, which is a shame because that was a thing to do. But even though a bunch of features have been removed, lots were still present. The drive-in trays held a pizza tray if you sat in one of the cars and the Prehistoric Beach had a bunch of huts where you could do stuff. I watched a lot of Flintstones reruns in one of the dwellings. The Hunting Spot had a kiosk from which penguins could buy stuff. The Prehistoric Pizza Parlor probably had the most interactive elements, though. Standing onstage would play a song on the bones; standing by the sauce would squirt hot sauce on the pizza dough; and standing by the rolling pin would roll the dough. They also added a prehistoric Puffle Feeding stand, even though they didn't need to. Frankly, I don't know why the Prehistoric Snow Forts were included in this party. There was absolutely nothing to do there and Digloos weren't around this year for featured igloos. It could have been left out completely and nobody would care, except for about 3 people. But, if you think about it, if we never got to see the 2016 version, we would all be thinking that we were losing Garugg's message and Digloos. We lost those anyway, but nobody did anything.
Completely pointless.

There were also transformations at this party; but instead of the 20-some transformations that we got in previous years, we only got the main 5, one for each type of dinosaur. They all looked pretty cool, but I prefer the red velociraptor to the black one, and the player card for the velociraptor is the wrong color. The only one that made sounds for the first week was the Triceratops, and that took a long time to fix. One thing I noticed that the team changed puke snowballs to dinosaurs actually throwing snowballs. The Tyrannosaurus's throwing animation is really cool.

Overall, this party was pretty mediocre. I enjoyed it for what it was, and I hope you did too. I give it a 6/10. Goodbye!


All images are from The Club Penguin Wiki. The video was made by me.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

The Time Trekker

Hello penguins! Welcome to Club Penguin Secrets. Today's secret is all about the Time Trekker at the currently ongoing Prehistoric Party.

If you go to the Dock and look at the back of the Time Trekker, you will see that the .SWF file is broken, showing snow defying gravity. This is visible in all languages.

Do you think this will be fixed by next week? Post a comment or tweet us @CPSecretsofCP with your answer! Goodbye!

Party Review - Holiday Party 2015

Hello penguins!

I know that the Holiday Party 2015 ended over two weeks ago, but I really want to do this. But instead of a formulaic review like the Halloween Party review or the party reviews on Club Penguin Space, I'm just going to review them by paragraph based on each little thing. It's not going to be a review where every section gets a grade and then I average it out. It's going to flow somewhat naturally. So, let's begin. I already sound like a rushed YouTube top 10 list. I should probably start before I make it worse.



The party rooms were pretty nice. Rooms that weren't decorated last year, like the Pizza Parlor, Nightclub, and Cove. The decorations that they did have were very nice. They were partially reused, but I don't care. They still look wonderful. Some of them even look better than they did at the last Holiday Party in 2012 or 2013. I can especially say this for the Ski Hill and the Nightclub. All of the returning rooms look nice, such as the Beach, Plaza, Mine Shack, and Forest. (They are considered returning rooms because they are recolored versions of the Merry Walrus party rooms.) Technically the Cove and the Coffee Shop are returning rooms, but they weren't at the Merry Walrus Party, so I don't care. Lots of rooms also have interactive elements, like the camera at the Ski Lodge or Santa's Sled. 3 of the rooms, the Beach, the Plaza, and the Forest, have new ways to earn money for Coins for Change. The team was planning to add the Bakery from 2012, but they didn't have time to implement it. Pictures have been added to the Club Penguin Wiki. Room that I didn't expect to have decorations were decorated. The UFO and the Nightclub were decorated, which were interesting, since temporary rooms are usually not decorated for parties, and the Nightclub had only been decorated twice so far that year. One cool thing I would like to point out is, at the Ski Hill, there is an Intothemoat snowman. Intothemoat is the Sled Racer world champion.

The music was also very pleasant. The Cove and Dance Lounge featured a remix of Christmas Jam titled Christmas Jammin', which I really enjoyed. Many old songs such as Snowy Holidays and Jingle Bells have returned as well. My favorite song is the Candy Cane March, which played at the Ski Village and the Ski Hill during the party. If you disabled SoundStudio, you could hear the instrumental music for Puffle Shuffle in the background. I love that song so much. All of the music was good, and I don't have a problem with any of it. Moving on!




As for things to do, this party had lots. As I mentioned above, the Beach, Plaza, and Forest all have a system that gives you money for helping out with little things like donating to the Food Shelf. Aside from that, you can also get your picture taken with Santa at the Ski Lodge and deliver presents in Santa's Sled right above the Dance Lounge. Rockhopper docked the Migrator at the Beach during this party, and any penguin that had the key to the Captain's Quarters could play Treasure Hunt. Crystal Puffles were available for adoption at this party, and members could transform into Frostbites, which haven't been seen since the Holiday Party 2012. And, of course, everybody could donate to Coins for Change.

As for story, there isn't one. But that's okay. There hasn't been a story to a Holiday Party in the past.

In total, this party gets an 8/10. I can't wait to see what the team does for the Holiday Party in 2016.
What do you think? Post a comment or tweet us @CPSecretsofCP with your opinion. Goodbye!

Thanks to TheCPSoundtrackTrainman1405, and The Club Penguin Wiki (secondary link) for all of the links, music, and the single picture towards the top of the post.

Thursday, December 17, 2015

How to Disable SoundStudio





Do you dislike SoundStudio music? Do you just want to listen to the default music that plays in the Dance Club? Watch this video to find out how!