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The gold puffle has been a myth in Club Penguin for a super long time.
Even before the Quest for the Gold Puffle play even came out
We decided we didn’t need to stick to that story and we can have this whole new one
We were talking about what we were going to do next with puffles that dig
It was probably like -- they would dig for the gold puffle!
A few weeks go by and it’s like we should definitely use…
…digging to be part of this whole finding the gold puffle
When coming up with a character, we first look at what other characters we have
With puffles, there's a lot of different personalities and...
...we don’t want to make this new character similar to the other ones
Cause then you know other than a new color, what’s the difference?
It took a ton of art to get to where it is now
We explored everything from...maybe it’s a girl puffle with bangs
Or a mister gold kind of mayor
We just we did a big art dump of every kind of possibility and then narrowed it down to what you see now which sparkles!
Puffles are very interesting because they are seen all over the world
They’re seen in your igloo, they have to dig up stuff, they dance…
…and they have all these like crazy animations
When you go to care for them, they have an animation when they are bathing and when you brush their hair
It just all adds up, and then you have to pick
One day if you had to pick a puffle to play puffle launch, there’s missing ones. So maybe one day we’ll add them but...
- It’s a long list of stuff
- There’s a long list of stuff
We got digging and important ones in there, like super toy!
There’s a lot of stuff that goes in to it first of all
There’s all the animations because all the artists build all the stuff out and we have to hook it up
We make a lot of mistakes when we are putting things together, so animations will be wrong
They’ll be backwards, puffles will be doing the moonwalk -- all that kind of stuff
There’s a lot of trial and error with getting everything together. In the database side of things...
...we have to set the configuration up so the gold puffle has different reactions to all the different items
We add new items like super toys and stuff like that. So there's a long checklist of what it takes to put a puffle together
The nice thing is, we’ve done it a few times now, this is our twelfth puffle. So we’ve got it down
We love seeing fan art and getting inspired by it
It’s not just a question of color, it’s like what do we want to do with it
It could be a cat...could be anything
Have we discovered them all?
I would say that if we keep searching...we are going to find more
The problem is going to be, where are we going to keep all these puffles when we find them.