PCRandom

**PCRandom** is a Club Penguin Private Server founded by ChrisCPI, created with CPPSCreator. It is a mixed recreation of Penguin Chat 3, the predecessor to Club Penguin. It opened publicly on January 23, 2021.

## History

### Beginnings

Before PCRandom existed, there was another CPPS that ChrisCPI owned with CPPSCreator. It was called "Club Penguin Random." It opened late-April of 2020. For the most part, it was just like any other CPPS. Commands were enabled which led to some crazy stuff happening in-game. Some parties were also held too, catalogs released, etc.

There was also a brief period during the first few days where the CPPS was known as "Herbert's Paradise." The concept was that all of the game would be the 'Operation: Blackout' party. This didn't last long, however, as it led to conflict with the owner of "Club Herbert," which was achieving this same thing at a much better scale. Following this, the game was switched back to it's normal state, returning to the name of 'Club Penguin Random.'

### Further Conflict

During the first few months of the CPPS being open, there was lots of drama with one user (who I will keep anonymous for reasons). In the first day or so of the CPPS, this user had showed ChrisCPI lots of cool stuff he could do, such as custom items. This led to ChrisCPI giving him the role of Administrator shortly after. However, the user had abused his abilities, doing much bad to the game. Banning users, abusing the "weapons" feature of the game, etc.

Eventually, ChrisCPI giving him the Owner position, which was foolish. However, it had to be done as ChrisCPI was near afraid of him at this point. Because Owners of a CPPS cannot be demoted, and because the user continued to be abusive of abilities, this ultimately led to the CPPS being deleted, starting again from scratch. This time, ChrisCPI would be more wise of who to give power to.

Throughout the next few months, the game kept going with parties, catalogs, and more.

### Attempts to revamp the game

ChrisCPI was starting to get bored after awhile, and wanted to bring something new to the table which no one else had done before. This led to a few different concepts which got somewhat far.

**Project: Fool** was the first revamp attempt. The idea was all of the rooms from the April Fools Party 2008 being in the game, with some modifications. However, this got nearly nowhere with a combination of the one user from earlier copying this idea, and the one developer/designer working on it being very slow. The project was eventually cancelled, and the game returned to normal.

Later on, ChrisCPI had another idea for the game. Having all of the rooms from 2005-2006 in the game. This required all of the rooms being edited to work with the AS2 client of the game. But, again, this got nowhere, and only a few rooms were finished by the cancellation of the project.

### The Collapse

Eventually, weeks after this, ChrisCPI had given up on the CPPS, and announced on December 15, 2020 that the game would close permanently on January 6, 2021. As a final sendoff party, a Waddle On Party was held, which was quite possibly the most custom party the game had ever had. Plenty of rooms were custom decorated.

The game was to merge with **CP Adventure**, another CPPS which was owned by another former administrator of the game. Clothing and furniture items was to be transferred from existing accounts to those who chose to join CP Adventure, which only ended up being 2 or so people. The merge fell through in the end.

### PCRandom Begins

One day, ChrisCPI got the idea of having a recreation of Penguin Chat 3 in CPPSCreator. It was perfect! The minimal rooms was just what he needed. And with a team of 3-4 designers on his side, he was doubtful this would fail.

Originally, this was planned to go in CP Adventure, but was eventually moved into its own separate CPPS. ChrisCPI was unsure on how to pull off this concept, but then he remembered that TonyOfficial, one of his designers, had a talent of putting a standard PNG image into Flash Pro CS6, then coding it to behave just like a normal room, with triggers, block, and all. The only downsides to this approach was the downgraded quality.

The first test room for this was the Boiler Room, done by TonyOfficial. The room was just about perfect! ChrisCPI determined that this was the route all rooms were to take. Best of all, he could design the room PNG images themselves! Eventually, the team figured out how to even put assets from other rooms into the PNG, so that you could click on buttons, walk behind and infront of stuff, and more.

After several more weeks of work, the CPPS officially launched the Beta Test Party on January 23, 2021.

## The Game Today

With several new updates being pushes out every other week, the game is still thriving. Although it has a somewhat small playerbase, the game is planned to keep going for as long as possible.

In 2022 the games rooms changed from the png format to full vector graphics as club penguin used after 2007.