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Behind the Scenes at: Club Penguin
Fun Fact: Lane co-founded Club Penguin
Agents
Welcome to the Elite Penguin Force mainframe
Here at Club Penguin you’re going to see some pretty important and top secret files. But just remember...
...don’t share this information with anyone.
Stay sharp, agents. And good luck!
Adam: Artist
Fun Fact: Adam's favorite toy is Lego
The art and animation team comes up with the art assets for all the games, catalogs, and rooms.
Everything you see in Club Penguin that's drawn is done by the art team.
My favorite thing to do here day-to-day would have to be coming up with new experiences.
Whether that’s a new party, or a new project, or any sort of new experience that we can bring to the kids.
I think that’s the coolest thing that we get to do around here.
If somebody wanted to be an artist or work in the games industry
you just have to keep drawing every day so it takes lots of practice...
maybe take some courses, maybe go to school for it...
you really have to take it seriously treat it like a full time job.
Draw every day. Keep drawing all the time.
Emma: Writer
Fun Fact: Emma doesn't like bellybuttons
On a daily basis we do things like writing scripts,
copy for advertisements, newspapers, newsletters, oops messages, help section,
everything you see inside Club Penguin and on the website itself.
I would say that the most challenging thing we do is juggling different tasks
because we have so many different projects that we working on every day.
The best advice I can give to somebody who wanted to do my job when they grow up
is to practice practice practice. Keep reading and keep writing.
Cory: Designer
Fun Fact: Cory is the tallest designer at Club Penguin
The Design team is actually split into two separate teams.
We have one team that works mostly with retail cards or gift cards you’d find in stores
the other team works on more of the in-world-type things.
so we work on logos for parties we also work on posters, the newspaper and postcards.
The advice I would give to someone who’s thinking of doing this when they grow up
is to definitely go to college or university.
There are so many things you can learn there that you just can’t do
just by making things up on the computer.
While you’re going to university, definitely do your own projects and do your own type of work
that is something you’re passionate about so that you can develop your own style.
Russ: Programmer
Fun Fact: Russ' favourite food is cereal
The Game Programming department in Club Penguin makes all the games you play online.
First thing we do is come up with the idea.
A lot of times we actually don’t start in the computer, we start in the real world.
The most challenging thing we do on a day to day basis is also the most fun thing to do
which is both creating things from scratch and then solving problems.
A lot of times we're doing things that are new... We’ve never done them before.
The advice I’d give somebody that wants to be a game programmer when they grow up
would be, One: learn math because computers like math,
Two: play lots of games so you know what makes a good game, and what makes a bad game
and thirdly you should like puzzles.
If you like puzzles, taking things apart, and figuring out how they work
you’re probably gonna make a good programmer.
Dave: Game Tester
Fun Fact: Dave is afraid of flying fish
We test everything from the community section to the home page
to new mini games and parties and even backend technical updates that the user doesn’t even see.
The most exciting part of the QA job is the ever-changing fast paced environment.
There are lots of projects and you look at new things every day.
Any advice I would give for someone who want to be a QA tester when they grow up
would be to be very attentive really like playing games and to be very detail oriented.
You look at a lot of different things and you've got to make sure
that it’s as bug free as possible before it goes out to the audience.
Mallory: Support
Fun Fact: Mallory has a cat named Toaster
Our job is to support the players
so we answer their questions through phone and email.
We have to know pretty much everything there is to know about Club Penguin.
It’s pretty cool to be able to help people everyday and and talk to them everyday.
If someone wanted to do my job I would say
you have to learn everything there is to know about Club Penguin
and definitely brush up on your typing skills because you’re gonna do a lot of that.
Well, agents
I hope you enjoyed this behind the scenes look at Club Penguin.
What you have seen here is top secret and very classified, and shouldn’t be shared with anyone.
I wish you well on your future missions.
Be resourceful, be remarkable, be ready!