Video Game / CP3D

Waddle around and meet new friends - in 3D!

CP3D, (formerly Club Penguin 3D), was a Fan Remake of the browser game Club Penguin. The game aimed to recreate the original game in a 3D environment in a more faithful manner than the official follow-up to Club Penguin, Club Penguin Island.

While a lot of the game's content was adapted directly from the original game, the game boasted its fair share of custom content, such as original parties, items and a completely different storyline following the disappearance of the PSA's Agent R. The player is recruited into the Penguin Secret Agency after finding his secret headquarters, and has to investigate different incidents around the island that seem to be linked to him.

The game was shut down in 2023 following the game's most ambitious custom party, The Rift, which concluded the Agent R storyline. The dev team have confirmed an offline version is slowly being developed.

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CP3D provided examples of:

• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: The penguins and puffles, as in the the original. But this time, in 3D!

• The Ace: Agent R. He powers his hideout using nothing but sweetcorn, survived years trapped in the Box Dimension, and his Black Belt implies he previously mastered the martial art, Card-Jitsu.

• Achievement System: The stamp book, as in the original game, tracks your achievement across certain minigames. New stamps were also added to games that didn't have them before, such as Bean Counters and Hydro Hopper.

• Acid-Trip Dimension: The Box Dimension, with its purple sky and floating cardboard boxes, which serve as portals to other dimensions. During the Rift event, it becomes unstable and causes these Dimensions to collide with each other.

• Adaptational Alternate Ending: The original game ends with the penguins all leaving the island for a new, recently discovered one ^note similar to, but not the same one as the one in Club Penguin Island, which is an Alternate Continuity. In CP3D, The Rift takes place. Once it's stopped, the island is returned to normal and life goes on, even though the game is no longer accessible.

• Adaptational Backstory Change: In this game, the Golden Puffles are from an alternate dimension resembling Ancient Egypt, rather than living underground.

• Adaptational Badass: The Cactus and Plunger Power Card animations were relatively tame in the original. The third dimension allows for new camera movements and more dramatic poses that make them seem more impressive in comparison.

• Adaptational Context Change: The line 'truly, you’ve saved us all'. In the original game, it’s spoken by the Director after the player frees the island from Big Bad Herbert. In CP3D, Gary says it to the player once they stop the destructive dimensional rifts.

• Adaptational Early Appearance: Rookie and PH. They are both agents for the PSA and EPF respectively. In the original game, they appear in missions, and are later introduced as meetable mascot characters. In CP3D, they were meetable as mascots before the PSA is ever introduced.

• Adaptational Late Appearance: Since both games’ stories occur in real time, every character introduced is an example of this. For example, in Club Penguin, Sensei first revealed himself to the public in 2008, but in CP3D, it was in 2020.

• Adaptational Villainy: In Club Penguin, the Extra Planetary Federation is tasked with rescuing aliens on the planet Upzar II. In one of CP3D's alternate dimensions, Upzar II instead ransacks the island for resources.

• Advanced Tech 2000: Gary uses 3000 at the end of his inventions - The player can obtain an older prototype used by Agent R, the Spy Phone 1000, at the end of The Rift event.

• Aerith and Bob: The game sports names from Rockhopper to Gary. The trope applies to Gary himself - his alternate dimension counterpart is called Gartree.

• After the End: The Dilapidated Dimension is an alternate version of the island that is completely abandoned and overgrown with plant life. Nobody seems to know what happened to it.

• Alien Invasion: The Invaded Dimension is currently being invaded by aliens from Upzar II.

• Allegedly Free Game: Downplayed in comparison to the original. Up until 2020, the game had a Patreon, but the benefits of this were limited to exclusive pins, backgrounds and Early Access builds - everything else was completely free.

• Alternate Continuity: The story of the PSA is completely different, with Big Bad of the original game Herbert P. Bear not even receiving a mention. The order that parties take place, minigames are developed and buildings are opened is also totally different.

• Amazing Technicolour Wildlife: Penguins can be just as colourful as the original, including a new colour, Mint.

• An Ice Person: White puffles return and can freeze liquids at will. They’re first obtainable in an ice cave, complete with ice sculptures and furniture.

• Ascended Meme:
  • Richard. Originally just the standard penguin model accidentally left in one of the rooms, he was named by the fans who speculated on his goals, and once he was finally removed, his disappearance. The devs used this as the foundation of the Agent R storyline.
  • The Tree Gang was a group of fans would would dress in tree costumes and patrol the island. A literal Tree Gang from another dimension can be found in the forest during The Rift.
  • A running gag among the community was that the lead modeller of the game, Wydrop, had a secret basement he kept all the mascots in. The Basement Dimension appears during The Rift, with the hats belonging to the mascots scattered along the floor, and a silhouette resembling Wydrop’s character behind bars.

• Assembly Line Fast-Forward: Pizzatron 3000, a minigame where you have to create pizzas along one of these, returns, alongside Shrimp Mode, which starts at a faster speed and involves making harder recipes.

• Bilingual Bonus: The tracks for the Pipe Maze, Tiefsee-Tunelsystem, and Engine Room, Geheimraum im Tiefsee, are titled in composer Dialga22239’s native German. They mean ‘The Sewerage System under Deep Sea’ and ‘Secret Room in the Pond’s Depths’ respectively.

• Bittersweet Ending: One of the final videos on the CP3D YouTube channel features the penguin from CP3D Ice Fishing in a white void, complete with the classic music. When their rod breaks, they're helped out by the penguin from Experimental Penguins, Club Penguin and Club Penguin Island^note  a game CP3D was frequently compared to. They all sit down and fish together as the camera looks towards the sky. Even though the game is over, just like the games that inspired it, its history and community remain. ^note  Made slightly more bitter by a joke on Twitter revealing that the void has no internet access.

• Cartoon Penguin: The player characters are these. But in 3D!

• Cave Behind The Waterfall: It leads into the sewer system, used during the mission, ‘A Welcoming Flood’.

• Chekhov M.I.A.: The PSA storyline revolves around Agent R being missing. He eventually shows up to save the day at the end of The Rift’s mission.

• Collection Sidequest: Stamps, pins and free items, as well as scavenger hunts across the island during events like Easter and Halloween.

• The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Sensei reads your moves and automatically defeats you if you face him in Card-Jitsu without first earning a black belt.

• Dark Reprise: The EPF leitmotif plays during the Engine Room theme.

• Eldritch Location: The Basement Dimension from The Rift - an homage to The Backrooms and a running joke about a secret basement belonging to one of the developers.

• Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Card-Jitsu returns from the original game, with the Power Cards having updated animations.

• Extreme Omnivore: Orange Puffles are shown to eat almost anything. And lots of it, too.

• Eye of Horus Means Egypt: The Pyramid from the Egyptian Party displays a large one near the top during.

• Fiery Stoic:
  • Black Puffles, who are generally stoic and reserved, but can set alight while you walk with them.
  • A popular image among the fanbase depicts Sensei in his Card-Jitsu Fire outfit during a meet-up, responding ‘...’ after a player asked him if he could say ‘poggers’.

• Film Noir : The Stage Play, Ruby and the Ruby, and the Noir Dimension both serve as homages to this.

• Fishing Minigame: Ice Fishing returns from the original game. But this time, in 3D!

• Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Just like the original - CP3D takes it further by introducing a Miscellaneous clothing category, so that items like the jetpack can be worn alongside neck items like scarfs and ties.

• Gadgeteer Genius: Brown Puffles are absent from the original game, but Gary the Gadget Guy remains as smart as ever. His variant from the Tree Gang is also one, known among his gang as the Gadgetree Guy.

• Game Within a Game: The minigames return, some of them such as Bean Counters added a new perspective taking advantage of the third dimension.

• Gasshole: Pressing e + t on the keyboard allows you to fart. The game rewards you with a stamp if you can get several players to do this.

• Genderbent Alternate Universe: Aunt Arctic’s counterpart from another dimension, Uncle Arctic, appears during the Rift. He makes reference to Captain Roxanne (Captain Rockhopper) and Paice (Paige).

• God Guise: The player can disguise themselves as Anubis to gain access to the central room in the pyramid. The Sphinx inside sees right through it, though.

• Goofy Buckteeth: Orange Puffles are the goofiest species of puffle, and they have the buckteeth to prove it.

• Grand Finale: The Rift event - almost every room in the game was affected by the rift, alongside a long mission concluding the game’s story.

• Gratuitous Ninja: A Dojo where you can learn the art of Card-Jitsu and become a ninja sits up in the mountains of a snow-covered island.

• Guyliner: All Golden Puffles wear this as an homage to their Ancient Egyptian origin.

• Harder Than Hard: Some of the custom extreme stamps, such as Jumping Jock and Shrimp Chef, are very hard to obtain.

• Home Base: The R HQ is Agent R’s base of operations. It requires a maze to access and even he gets lost occasionally.

• Magic Staff: Granted to the player by the Sphinx, during the Egyptian Party. It allows the player to levitate over purple clouds.

• The Maze: Several appear, such as in the Egyptian Pyramid, Mysterious Labyrinth and the Sewer System. Another appears, combined with platforming challenges, in the Rift.

• Meaningful Name: The Director refers to Agent R as Fulcrum R. A fulcrum is something that plays a central or essential role in an event.

• Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game: The developer’s aim with this game was to translate this style of gameplay into a three-dimensional environment.

• Mondegreen Gag: These were used by mascots to avoid spoiling any details about the Agent R storyline. For example, when the pirate, Captain Rockhopper, was asked if he knew where Richard was, he replied 'aye, I do be seeking riches!’.

• Minecart Madness: A remake of Cart Surfer was one of the earliest minigames in development, but never made it past beta. It was eventually made available during The Rift.

• The Multiverse: April Fool's Day Parties involve the penguins visiting other dimensions, and The Rift event involves the multiverse starting to collapse.

• Non-Mammalian Hair: The wigs return from the original game, although the penguins cannot grow hair naturally.

• No Such Thing as Dehydration: Exaggerated. Unlike the original, puffles don't even need to eat, let alone drink. ^note The hunger bar is present, but it never decreased.

• Old Master: Sensei, an elderly penguin who trains penguins in the martial art of Card-Jitsu. This was lampshaded by Rockhopper, who frequently make fun of his age, during mascot visits.

• Opposed Mentors: Sensei and Rockhopper. Both are treated as mentor figures, but the former lives in the mountains and enjoys a life of peace while the latter sails the Seven Seas on a life of adventure. Their opposing ideals causes them to clash whenever they both appear at the same time.

• Our Dragons Are Different: The Box Dragon from Puffle Launch (a minigame in the original) appears during The Rift.

• Permanently Missable Content: As in the original, some items cannot be obtained after the party they appear in. This was ultimately averted in the final hours of the game, when every single item in the game was made available to players.

• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: The fictional superheroes Shadow Guy and Gamma Gal follow this colour scheme. Subverted when Gamma Gal teams up with the Eric the Red and the Living Sled in the final Stage Play.

• Playing with Fire: Black Puffles and Fire Ninjas can both control fire.

• Polar Bears and Penguins: Averted. The Big Bad of the original game, Herbert P. Bear, never appears, with mascots insisting polar bears aren't native to the South Pole when questioned about him.

• Polar Penguins: The island is completely covered in snow, even during summer events. ^note The most notable exception being The Egyptian Party, where the island was covered in sand.

• Portal Crossroad World: Gary theorises that the Box Dimension may be this - explaining it as a sort of Hub Level.

• Private Eye Monologue:
  • Jacques Hammer does this in his own play, Ruby and the Ruby, and the crossover play, Squidzoid vs Team Red - A Holiday Quest for the Ruby: Live.
  • The player can inadvertently do this themself if they give a Tour in the Noir Dimension.

• The Professor: Gary. As well as being an inventor, he engages in all sorts of scientific research - typically whatever’s related to the next approaching party.

• Pyramid Power: The pyramid in the Egyptian Party houses a sphinx, who grants you Anubis' powers.

• Ridiculously Cute Critter: The puffles are as cute as ever, with new facial expressions and walk cycles in 3D.

• Semiaquatic Species Sailor: Captain Rockhopper is a penguin pirate. The variant of Sensei from the Cream Soda Dimension is also dressed as a sailor.

• Signature Headgear: Many of the mascots, such as Rockhopper and Sensei, have head items that are exclusive to them - players could only obtain them in the final hours of the game, when every single item in the game was made available to everyone.

• Slippy-Slidey Ice World: The White Puffle Cave you access at the end of The Great Snow Maze has a slippery surface.

• Themed Party: A main feature of this game and the original. As well as parties like the Halloween Party and Puffle Party, the game introduced original parties like the Egyptian Party and The Rift.

• Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: The Final Play has characters from every previous Stage Play square off against each other.

• Vibrant Orange: Orange Puffles are the most chaotic and energetic type of puffle.

• Video Game 3D Leap: An attempt to make a direct one for ''Club Penguin'.

• Virtual Paper Doll: Just like in the original game, players can dress up their penguins. The game also added an option to save specific outfit combination to accommodate this.

• When Dimensions Collide: The plot of The Rift event. Different rooms are affected by the Dimension that collides with it - for example, the Plaza collides with the Noir Dimension. It turns into a city straight out of a Film Noir set, complete with a grayscale world and inexplicable monologuing.

• You Mean "Xmas": Just like the original, the first Holiday Party was referred to as the Christmas Party, with following parties taking the secular name. However, the Merry Walrus Party from the original never appears.