Crazy Penguin Wars (lost Worms-type Facebook multiplayer game; 2012-2015)

Concept art for the game.

Status: Lost

Crazy Penguin Wars is an action game developed by Digital Chocolate, reminiscent of the classic "Worms"-type game, where a group of penguins face each other to dominate the territory.

Gameplay

The gameplay for this game is similar to the classic Worms Armaggedon in many ways. There is one objective in the game: kill all the penguins on the enemy side. To do this, players must make use of an entire arsenal that is available in their territory but should consider elements of the territory such as the altitude, wind, and/or the structure of the level, that may impact the battle and victory itself.

The game development system of this game is turn-based. The penguins will move around the map and use any of the weapons they have available to kill any of the enemies within their reach. Players will have a little less than three minutes for each turn, and once they have made their attack, the turn will end instantly. Players will have a defined amount of life, which will decrease depending on the attacks they receive or the falls they suffer during combat. If the player falls into the sea, which is in the lowest area of the map, said player will die instantly.

The penguin that stands above the rest will win the game. Each team will be made up of four penguins, who may be Facebook friends or the computer's artificial intelligence. There will also be room for customization, since players can edit their penguins from scratch, from color to elements such as caps, glasses ,or pirate eye patches. Players can chat or talk with the rest of their teammates during the game, due to its integration with Facebook.

Game Translations

The existence of at least 5 dubs of this game can be confirmed, which were available depending on the player's region. The main source of these translations are screenshots and some gameplays filmed during its time.

• English [Main Language and Official Social Networks]
• Spanish [Game Translation and Official Social Networks]
• German [Game Translation | Gameplay]
• Polish [Game Translation | Screenshots]
• Brazilian Portuguese [Game Translation | Screenshots]

Discontinuation of the Game

The game was discontinued in October 2015, with the announcement of the closure of its servers.

Cheating

Screenshot of the EOL Advisory in Crazy Penguin Wars UI

At the time, the game was the target of a high number of hacking attacks using various tools such as cheat engines and Fiddler, an extension/application which aims to unfairly increase statistics of various weapons such as arsenal development times and the amount of virtual Premium Currency (could only be acquired with real money, or after an excessive amount of play and chance in a daily reward slot machine). Other hacks included players o acquiring aesthetic elements and high tier arsenal (greater damage) which generated made the game unbalanced that would eventually lead to the closure of the servers due to their recurring closures for maintenance beforehand and the impossibility of economically maintaining it.

Subsequently, in 2014, the Digital Chocolate Company, together with its intellectual properties, was sold to RockYou Games who, to date, have no intention of relaunching and have hidden part of the content originally advertised on the game's official social networks.

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  Example of a player using game vulnerabilities to obtain "infinite Money resources"

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  An Screenshot of one of the fake Game Trainers to make Infinite money hacks

Surprisingly, the content and guides about how to cheat and alter flash player variables in this game is the same reason why the majority of content about the game's existence prevails online

In April 2014, Digital Chocolate's four remaining Facebook games — Army Attack, Crazy Penguin Wars, Millionaire City, and Zombie Lane — were licensed to RockYou, along with the hiring of developers to continue work on their games.

Facebook Game Crazy Penguin Wars EOL Message

Availability

Only with the launch on the Facebook gaming platform, together with its dependence on the use of Adobe Flash player, makes it impossible to play the game at present. The game can be considered completely lost, as there is no alternative way to access the game and only community restorations and gameplay content are the only pieces of content from the game surviving.

Although it is still possible to access the old Facebook games link, it will only display a static screen indicating the closure of the server and thanking the players for having participated in it.

Despite the fact that since 2015 when the official closure of the servers was announced, fans and players made requests through comments to maintain its support, both at the time and after its acquisition by RockYou Games in 2014 and the eventual discontinuation of support for the server and flash player in browsers, there are no official intentions to relaunch or port it.

Game Recreations

Currently, there are community projects that seek to recreate the original game from the few preserved online resources and the memory of former volunteer players. One of these projects has been called Crazy Penguin Wars SCRATCH edition which is still in early development phases.

Gallery

Trailer of the game.

A video featuring the game hack in 2013.

An official how-to-play (Research and Craft).

External Links

• Official Twitter Account (inactive since 2012)
• Official Facebook Account (inactive since August 2015 and was renamed as RockYou Discontinued Game)
• One of the Facebook Group Pages (How to Hack)