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Puffles need to be fed with pet food which costs 10 coins. If not fed, puffles |
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won't sleep or play, and will refuse to be walked. Continually negected puffles will run away. Walking a puffle may be done by clicking one's player card and clicking the leash. Puffles may be returned to the home of the player, where they reside when not being walked. |
won't sleep or play, and will refuse to be walked. Continually negected puffles will run away. Walking a puffle may be done by clicking one's player card and clicking the leash. Puffles may be returned to the home of the player, where they reside when not being walked. |
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When a player logs out, each puffle saves in its current position and is exactly the same upon the next login. |
When a player logs out, each puffle saves in its current position and is exactly the same upon the next login.you can only buy a maximum of 10 puffles. |
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===Minigames=== |
===Minigames=== |
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Revision as of 23:40, 18 November 2006
| Club Penguin | |
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| Developer(s) | New Horizon Interactive |
| Publisher(s) | New Horizon Interactive |
| Designer(s) | New Horizon Interactive |
| Engine | Adobe Flash |
| Platform(s) | OS Independent (Web Based Flash) |
| Release | October 24, 2005 |
| Genre(s) | MMORPG |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
Club Penguin is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game for children developed by New Horizon Interactive. Using cartoon penguin avatars, players can converse, play minigames, and participate in other activities with one another in a snow-covered virtual world.[1] Club Penguin was first made available to the public in October 2005[2], and has since expanded into a large online community.
Club Penguin shares similarities with other popular online environments like Habbo Hotel and RuneScape. Club Penguin is primarily designed for children age eight to fourteen,[3] and has been qualified for the Better Business Bureau - Kid’s Privacy Seal of Approval. [4] Club Penguin was also awarded the "Editors Choice" award from Children's Technology Review Magazine.[citation needed]
Though the game can be played for free, many of the features are not available unless a subscription is purchased.[5] The monthly subscription is $5.95.
Gameplay
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Environment
To navigate and explore the environment, players use the mouse to click on the location they wish their penguin to travel to. Buildings and rooms can be accessed by clicking and moving one's penguin to the door or entrance.
Each player is provided with an igloo for a home. Members have the option of opening their igloo so other players can access it via the map.
There are many places in Club Penguin. They include: Mountain, Ski Village, Sports Shop, Ski Lodge, Lodge Attic, Town, Coffee Shop, Book Room, Dance Club, Dance Lounge, Gift Shop, Cave, Boiler Room, Mine, Plaza, Pizza Shop, Pet Shop, Ice Rink, Snow Forts, Beach, Dock, Mine Shack, Lighthouse, Dojo, Iceberg, The Beacon and the Head Quarters (HQ). These areas are not all on the map but are still accessible to all players. One exception is the Headquarters, which is both hidden and inaccessible to players who are not Secret Agents. Club Penguin is regularly updated with special events, such as the holidays Halloween, Christmas, and Easter, on which new updates or exclusive items may be provided.
Secret agents
Secret Agent is a status available to all players, whether members or not, who have played for at least 30 days. These agents are encouraged to inform players of upcoming events and guide new members around the game. Non-Members also usually receive free items during parties that Club Penguin holds. Other benefits are collecting pins released every 2 weeks. Non-members can buy colors, backgrounds, collect pins and much more. They are also asked to help keep Club Penguin safe and report anyone who is being disruptive or using offensive language. Non-members are not, however, official moderators.[6] Secret agents are also able to perform randomly occurring "Top Secret Missions." Successful completion of such missions yields items for the player card inventory. In addition to eligibility for Top Secret Missions, agents have "spy phones" to help report the bad things they see during their time at Club Penguin, and have access to the Headquarters. A player banned twice in the same year is not eligible to become a Secret Agent. Secret Agents who are members have access to a manual/catalog titled The F.I.S.H (Factual Information Spy Handbook) and exclusive information and items. Penguins become agents by answering a series of Club Penguin-related questions accurately. Not all applicants are selected.
Chat
Club Penguin provides two options for player chat. Ultimate Safe Chat is a type of chat where users may only communicate through phrases selected off a list, similar to old text-adventure games. Standard Chat is where the user can type out any message, but all messages are still subject to censoring by a word filter. [7] Of the current 73 computer servers running the game, 6 are Ultimate Safe Chat and 67 are Standard Safe Chat.
Membership
Players who subscribe for memberships get many benefits. They may buy anything from shops, own multiple puffles (pets for their penguins), host parties, enjoy early access to new parts of the game, have more room on servers, buy furniture for their puffles, and have access to all puffle breeds. They also have acess to Members only Parties hosted by Club Penguin.
Non-membership
Club Penguin provides a non-membership sign-up. Although such play is free, it does not include all of the benefits of being a member. Even so, over the last year, Club Penguin has given out over 19 free items at parties for all players. Non-member players may still buy a single puffle.
Puffles
Puffles are small balls of fluff which penguins may have as pets. They're available from the Pet Shop in blue, purple, green, pink, or black. Players who don't own a membership have access to only one blue puffle. Puffles need to be fed with pet food which costs 10 coins. If not fed, puffles won't sleep or play, and will refuse to be walked. Continually negected puffles will run away. Walking a puffle may be done by clicking one's player card and clicking the leash. Puffles may be returned to the home of the player, where they reside when not being walked. When a player logs out, each puffle saves in its current position and is exactly the same upon the next login.you can only buy a maximum of 10 puffles.
Minigames
There are many minigames to play in Club Penguin. The single player games, which generally earn the player more coins include Cart Surfer, Ice Fishing, Astro Barrier, Bean Counters, Puffle Roundup, Jet Pack Adventure (which was only recently introduced), and Ballistic Biscuit. The multiplayer games in Club Penguin include Find Four, Mancala, and Sledding, which reward the player with as little as 0 and up to roughly 30 coins per game. Games are found all over the various locations in the Club Penguin World. There is a game to be found in almost every place, or at least a link to one. In Cart Surfer, if one scores 2000 points, 200 Penguin Coins are received. A score of 350 results in 35 penguin coins. The same rewards apply with Ballistic Biscuit. In Jet Pack Adventure, the amount of coins collected plus the remaining fuel determines the total amount of coins received.
References
- ^ Leibowitz, Wanda, "Kids' Games Online for Free: A Parent's Guide to Safe, Positive, Non-violent Sites for Young Gamers", Associated Content, July 6, 2006 (URL last accessed September 14, 2006).
- ^ Club Penguin - It's Launched!, Club Penguin Developer Blog, October 24, 2005 (URL last accessed on September 8 2006).
- ^ "Who is Club Penguin For?", Club Penguin Q&A for Parents, URL last accessed on October 3 2006.
- ^ Club Penguin Secures BBB OnLine Kid's Privacy Seal of Approval, Club Penguin, Press release, April 24, 2006 (URL last accessed on September 4, 2006).
- ^ Gutner, Toddi, Teaching Internet Safety to Kids, BusinessWeek Online, July 27, 2006 (URL last accessed on September 24, 2006).
- ^ "Identifying Moderators", Club Penguin Help Guide, URL last accessed October 32, 2006.
- ^ "Is It Safe?", Club Penguin Q&A for Parents, URL last accessed October 3, 2006.
External links
- The Official Club Penguin Website by New Horizon Interactive
- Miniclip's Forum for Club Penguin
- Miniclip's Club Penguin