Club Penguin Atake

Club Penguin Atake AS3 era logo, also used as the main logo of the game.

**Club Penguin Atake** is a CPPS created by Boo0 in 2020. It's unique to other CPPSes, because of the features it offers. Players can play all Club Penguin eras, which means AS1, AS2, AS3, Experimental Penguins, Penguin Chat, Penguin Chat 3 and Club Penguin Island (via a partnership with Waddle Penguins Island) are available to play.

## Links

* Website
* Download page
* Web Client (requires a Flash-supported browser)
* TV
* Discord

## Custom features

* Multiple eras to play different timelines of Club Penguin with different art styles
* A TV with custom movies and original Club Penguin movies
* An arcade to play minigames at anytime that were from various parties
* The most custom puffles a CPPS has ever done with over 100 different kinds to adopt

## History

### CPPSCreator & CPHQ

Club Penguin Atake was first opened on CPPSCreator as a AS2 styled CPPS on April 17th, 2020. It offered custom parties and 2 armies open for everyone to join. It extended its offerings on August 2, 2020 with the release of the AS3 version that ran on the now shut-down CPHQ service. Both versions shut down on December 31, 2020 at 7:36 pm (Central European Time) due to Flash support stopping and clients not yet being made.

Club Penguin Atake rebooted on January 25, 2021 with a downloadable client.

### Blast Off 1.0

On January 20, 2022, an update called “Blast Off 1.0” was released. It was back-then the biggest update yet released. It added the AS1 and AS3 versions – now called eras – and a single player version of Experimental Penguins. AS2 was still running on CPPSCreator. Alongside the main additions, an arcade was added to AS1 and AS3's forest, a new party started, and the TV was released.

Club Penguin Atake suffered a database loss on February 7, 2022, when switching server hosts. An unlock items online code was released giving people 10000 coins for the inconvenience of having to re-create their accounts.

Due to issues with CPPSCreator, on July 2, 2022, the AS2 CPPSCreator version was archived and replaced by the hosted version.

On October 15, 2022, Spanish, Portuguese and French versions were dropped, due to low-use.

Club Penguin Atake suffered a second database loss on November 9, 2022, due to server termination and corrupt backup databases. All data after July 7, 2022, was lost, lost items were provided again, soon after.

### Blast Off 2.0

Four days before 2023, on December 28, 2022, the game's ownership was split into two groups – Moonlight Studios, which also offers Waddle Penguins Island, and Sunrise Games, which focuses on restoring Disney's online worlds. This marked the start of Blast Off 2.0.

The new update was announced and released on January 13, 2023, and brought: Experimental Penguins online, Penguin Chat, Penguin Chat 3 as well as Club Penguin Island online (via partnership with Waddle Penguins Island), a custom party, an open archive of Club Penguin mobile apps and custom mascots.

On July 3, 2023, it was announced that the CPPSCreator era will be fully shutting down on July 10, 2023, 11:00 pm (CET). Players were offered to move their items and coins to the hosted version via a Support Ticket. Its final party – Waddle On Party – started on July 9, 2023 and its final meetup began on July 10, 2023, 10:38 pm (CET). It was live broadcasted on the game's TV for users who couldn't attend the meetup. Its servers were closed at 11:42 pm (CET), 12 minutes after the planned shut down time. A day later, on July 12, 2023, an update to the game's client was released to remove the CPPSCreator icon and links.

### August 2023: A New Domain and a New Client

On August 16, 2023, all services of Club Penguin Atake unexpectedly went into maintenance, as the host of the domain cpatake.dink.cf went offline. The reason for this was unknown, but it caused a lot of inconvenience and confusion for the players and the staff. The management quickly switched to a new domain, cpatake.boo, and started the migration process. The migration lasted around two days, during which the players were unable to access the game or the website.

The migration was completed on August 18, 2023, and the game was back online. The game had a new, refreshed client, which had a different look and feel than the previous one. The Monarch Butterfly client had a more colorful and playful design, as well as more customization.

### October 2023: The End of Two Projects

On October 10, 2023, Club Penguin Atake announced the closure of two projects that had been in development for a long time. The first project was the optimization of Club Penguin Atake to Ruffle and browser usage. The optimization project aimed to make Club Penguin Atake playable on any browser and device, without compromising the quality or the functionality of the game. However, the project faced many technical difficulties and challenges, and it was deemed too complex and costly to continue.

The second project was the radio development. It was one of the more popular and ambitious projects, as it aimed to create an online radio station that would broadcast music related to Club Penguin Atake.

### December 2023: A Month of Shutdowns and Attacks

The month of December 2023 was a turbulent and eventful month for Club Penguin Atake, as it faced several shutdowns and attacks. On December 10, 2023, the management announced that some of the services and features of the game would be shutting down permanently on December 31, 2023. The services and features that were affected were the legacy web client, the Club Penguin Atake Radio, and the Vanilla CDN for third-party content.

The Club Penguin Atake Radio shutdown was the most notable and the most mourned, as it was a beloved and unique feature of the game. The radio shutdown was planned to be commemorated with a live audition and a Discord event.

On Christmas Day, December 25, 2023, Club Penguin Atake, along with its sister games Waddle Penguins Island and Celestial Penguin, were all hit with a DDOS attack that brought all services down. The attack caused a lot of damage and frustration, as the players and the staff were unable to access the games or the websites on one of the most festive and important days of the year.

Club Penguin Atake continued to be down until December 27, 2023, as the services were still recovering from the attack. The compensation included an extension of the Holiday Party.

Also on December 27, 2023, Club Penguin Atake reached another milestone of 900 registered users. This was a remarkable achievement for the game, especially after the attack and the downtime.

### January 2024: A New Year and a New Radio

Stepping into the new year, on January 21, 2024, Club Penguin Atake reached the milestone of 1000 users registered. This was a huge achievement for the game, as it showed its success and its reputation among the Club Penguin fans and players. The management thanked the players and the staff for their dedication and their enthusiasm, and celebrated the milestone with an unlock code with exclusive items and 1000 coins. A blog post commemorating this celebration revealed that the game is entering its final years.

On January 26 and 27, 2024, the management announced that due to public demand the radio would be reworked and would come back, and that the client had been completely redesigned and now followed the design scheme of Club Penguin Atake - One Live. The radio rework was a response to the feedback and aimed to improve the quality and the variety of the radio, as well as to address the issues and the limitations that the previous radio had.

The client redesign was a part of the One Live design project, which is a project that aims to unify and simplify the game and its services’ design and make it more pleasant and fun to use.

## References

1. ↑ https://cpatake.boo/blog/datainfo/
2. ↑ https://support.fullmoon.dev/articles/108597-important-news-regarding-the-cppscreator-era-on-club-penguin-atake
3. ↑ https://tv.cpatake.boo/watch/replay/0710/?utm\_source=share