Frosty

**Frosty** is an online multiplayer game based on the online MMO game, [REDACTED] Penguin.

## History

The game as you know it launched in May 2020, but the roots of its history go all the way back to November 2019.

A user, who was only known on Discord as "??", launched a CPPS sometime in November 2019 under the name "Club Penguin Back". This CPPS didn't really gain much attention, as it didn't have much users, and only some minor custom content. Ultimately, the CPPS didn't last long and closed less than a month later sometime in December 2019.

1 or 2 weeks after the CPPS closed, a user known on Discord as "Jason" decided to go on the task of reviving the CPPS under his ownership. A new Discord server was created to give users sneak peeks and updates of the new CPPS. Jason hired much of the staff from the old Club Penguin Back to work on the new one, as well as some entirely new staff. (Some of which are still with Frosty today!)

After only at least 1 week of work, bug fixing, and preparing, the new Club Penguin Back launched on December 22, 2019, along with its custom Beta Hat. The Beta Test Party was a success, with many players joining in.

Everything goes well, with the usual updates every other day, and lots of custom content. A couple of months later, after much debating, the decision was made to do a full reset of the game, erasing all penguin data. This decision was made because Jason believed that the game could have a more successful launch, since there had been more experienced designers and developers hired in the 2 months so far. This would have also helped draw more attention and players to the game. And so, the announcement of the reset was made, and on February 17, 2020, the game was taken offline, and all penguin data was erased. In the 24 hours of the game being closed, lots of new people joined the Discord server, awaiting the relaunch. The staff team began to have more hope that the relaunch was going to be successful. During this time, the game also rebranded to 'CPBack.'

The following day, the game relaunches with a custom Beta Test Party, having a unique sunset sky. The relaunch ended up being a massive success. Lots of new players joined, and the game surpassed over 100 registered users in less than an hour.

For the next couple of months, ?? made a return, with a surprising move to create a fake version of the game, and tell everyone that Jason stole the name of the CPPS. The team battled with him for a while, but most people did not fall for the tricks of ??.

Also near this time, Jason had resigned from his position entirely, and gave complete ownership to 'daniel11420', a developer of the game. Jason then became inactive everywhere for over a month.

On April 1, 2020, the CPBack website experienced downtime. The team contacted Jason to fix this, however he was inactive and did not respond to any messages. This was the last time the website would be up. The game and Discord server became very inactive, with rarely any updates. Behind the scenes, however, the team was busy trying to find a solution, and considering perhaps moving to a new domain.

The team eventually decided to relaunch once again, this time on a new domain. Unfortunately, the old CPBack database could not be brought over to this new domain, so players had to start from scratch again. The team decided they would hold a closed beta this time, which would only include staff, those who donated, and a lucky few who won a chance at getting a spot in closed beta by picking numbers at random. The Beta Party officially started on May 14, 2020 and lasted until May 20, 2020. This launch of Frosty did not have as many players as the previous launch.

On December 4, 2020, it was announced by Daniel that a port for Frosty would be made in Unity. This was because Adobe Flash support was ending on December 31, 2020, and Frosty would no longer be playable via the website. It would only be playable through the desktop client. Frosty was no longer playable through the website on December 15, 2020. On December 27, it was announced that Frosty's desktop client would be shutting down while the Unity port was being made. This announcement came soon after head designer Noiki1 resigned, but his resignation was not the sole reason for the shutdown. The desktop client for Frosty shut down on January 17, 2021 at 12:00 pm PST. Most of the mascots that had ever appeared in game returned, though they did not have new giveaways.

## Gallery

A screenshot of the Beta Test PartyA screenshot of Rory visiting during the Beta Test PartyPenguins wearing the Snow Trekker during the Beta Test Party