A year or two ago, I helped design the bonus game which shipped with the Poptropica Blimp toy. I also created the artwork (seen above) included on the box art. I can't take credit for the little islands in the background, however. That was done by another artist.
Below, you can get a peek at the different levels of the game. I had a blast designing and creating it.
It was also fun to design the villain's airship. I tried to make it everything the Poptropican blimp wasn't.
At the end, the player launches an all-out war against Dr. Cumulo's secret arctic base. Although we had to slim it down a bit from my original pitch, the final battle was also something I designed.
I also created a special villain just for this game: Dr. Cumulo Nimbus -with his special-action lightning storm hairdo! I hope he's able to show up in some future island sometime. He was a pretty good bad guy.
Here is a page of character designs for him. His final design is in the lower right.
If you want to learn more about the Inflatable toy blimp, and the game I helped create, zip over to the toy page at
poptropica.com and check it out!
