Club Penguin Island
The successor to Club Penguin, discontinued in 2018.
Club Penguin Island was a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) and the de facto successor to Club Penguin. Developed by Disney Canada Inc., it was released worldwide on March 29, 2017, and discontinued on December 20, 2018. The game ran on the Unity engine instead of Adobe Flash Player.
Quick Facts
- Developer
- Disney Canada Inc. (published by Disney Mobile)
- Operating system
- iOS
- Android
- Windows
- macOS (Unity)
- Launched
- Android, iOS, March 29, 2017, Windows, macOS, November 30, 2017
- Discontinued
- 20 December 2018
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History
The game was initially developed under the code name Project: Super Secret, first used in 2014 and teased with sneak peeks in June 2015. It was originally said to be Disney Mix, with actual development confirmed to have started in 2015. On November 17, 2016, the project was revealed as Club Penguin Island, and pre-registration began, offering a Beta Hat, six emojis, and 100 coins, plus an Alumni Jacket for those linking their Club Penguin accounts. The closed beta took place in North America between the announcement and December 2016. A geo-beta ran in Australia and New Zealand from December 15, 2016, to the worldwide release, extending to iOS users in Canada on January 13, 2017. The original Flash game's servers went offline on March 30, 2017, at 12:01:39 AM PDT. On September 27, 2018, Disney confirmed the shutdown in a letter obtained by Kotaku, citing global competition. The entire Club Penguin team in Kelowna, British Columbia, was laid off, despite being greenlit for two more years three weeks prior. The mobile app was removed from stores on November 20, 2018, and the game shut down on December 20, 2018.
Membership
Membership unlocked most of the game's full content, while free players had a limited experience. On November 5, 2018, all players received free membership, followed by an Offline Mode on December 21, 2018. Offline Mode allowed players to log into a limited version of the game stored on their devices, without seeing or interacting with other penguins. It also added Debug Mode, a developer tool enabling teleportation, coin addition, data import/export, and private server creation via SmartFoxServer. A content submenu was added on March 28, 2019.
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