Thank you for making this. Club Penguin was an insanely huge part of my childhood. Growing up, I didn't have the best family environment and Club Penguin gave me a happy place to escape to - and I made lifelong friends along the way. I loved CP so much that I made UA-cam videos about it which made me realize I have a passion for video production. Later on my friend (now fiance) met chatting about the game and we ended up creating one of the first CP private servers in existence. (Sorry, Disney!) We saved up enough money from our server to meet in person. 8 years later, we're still together! I'm hoping someday we will create a game that could have such a large impact on other children in the same way CP did for us. Thank you, Chris, for helping make my childhood awesome. Waddle On!
Wow! That's so awesome! I always find it amazing that anyone was able to communicate on CP, let alone have lifelong friends or even find who they're going to marry! I love this story! I'm sure you'll make awesome things too.
In 2005-2006 I was in foster care and my foster parents allowed me to make an account, I was able to stay in touch with friends and my 6 year old foster sister after I moved back in with my mom through club penguin. I'm 25 now and I still remember my foster mom helping me solve the missions. I recently found out about club penguin rewritten and it made me so happy that some kid out there could also be getting help with missions from their foster parents.
This video was really educational and emotional. I love to think of the fact that someday Club Penguin will return at some point. I think we can only hope for the community to stay strong until that time comes. Really nice to have this history lesson of the early history of it. Amazing video!
Follow Ondra's link, Club Penguin Rewritten is your best bet. Screenhog himself was interviewed in a CP Rewritten broadcast hosted by the staff, which you can find here! ua-cam.com/video/u-quBTxWugc/v-deo.html
I think the community is the best part of club penguin, coming in close with basically everything else (and at this point, I'd like to point out the mindset gone into Club Penguin that made the game so perfect and wholesome, which was making it a silly little game that was fun enough to start playing once say you get home from school. It was a break from the outside world and was so free and fun, especially when a party was on. I remember that every month or so, I would go to a shopping centre thirty minutes away from my home town and buy membership cards. Heck, whenever I write membership, I think back to Club Penguin that first showed the term to me. I even learnt how to spell it from this game.) But anyway, the community was so nice from my memory and just saying, if there is someone that was a Club Penguin fan in the day, that's a pretty damn good conversation starter. Nothing brings people quite together like a wholesome game from 2005 called Club Penguin. Oof, that was a long comment.
I feel very privileged that you took Club Penguin fans on a grand tour of Club Penguin's special places around Kelowna. If I were to visit Kelowna again, I would spent time going to these places and reflect on those occurrences that led to Club Penguin's success. This is an even deeper tour than the CP HQ tours, which includes important places like the meeting room in which you were informed of the Disney purchase. I enjoyed the humor you had incorporated in your video, as well as the insightful messages you have left regarding Club Penguin's impact on the people of Kelowna and the world. Even if the game itself is gone, its spirit and positivity lives on in the actions and beliefs of employees and fans alike. WADDLE ON!
Interesting to hear more details of how Club Penguin started! Love the humor of you stating place names that are badly named. 😂 "Being an animator doesn't only mean working for TV or movies, it could mean working in video games." YESSSSS!
I discovered Lakeview Road about a decade ago, and had been waiting for the right place to use that joke. :) (To be fair, when Kelowna was a very small city, I'm sure you could see the lake from there. People made buildings and planted trees since then.)
Ack, this had me crying. Club Penguin was apart of my childhood from around 2010, and I played it til it shut down. Even if I had only logged on occasionally towards the present, man, did little 5 year old me LOVE it. It was really awesome to see where it all started and took off, and it even helped me grow as an artist now. Thank you!
There's still an audience who want to see the original game return. It's unlikely, but maybe we'll see another revamp (or something else) of the game in the future.
700y yeah you got something else called Club Penguin Island, why didn’t they realese club penguin island before deleting the original clubpenguin to get a viewer response so we still had the original and Club Penguin island died like it did normally
I've been playing club penguin rewritten for 3 years now, I just can't stop playing the game. I'm in college, and you'd be surprised it's mostly college kids still playing club penguin (rewritten).
Well of course it’s only college kids playing it, because they’re the kids that grew up with the original game and have nostalgia for it. Little kids these days play games like Minecraft or Roblox instead, so they’re not going to be playing on CPPS
Thank you for this video... I teared up at the end. ;( I was playing Club Penguin from age 10 to 21. I feel like the game had a huge impact on my life. I got better at drawing by making fanart, and at English by translating the newspaper for the Polish community (which was HUGE btw). This directly helped me get into art school and get my first job abroad. I owe so much to this game.
I remember the Polish group! It had a picture of the ice fishing penguin on the front of the page, but traditional Polish clothing was added. We seriously admired your dedication to translating the paper every week. That was so cool.
@@ChrisHendricks It was a big group effort, so many people were involved. Funnily enough, some of the members (now young adults) are still connected over Facebook. I'm gonna screenshot this message to them. :) Thank you!
@@Mag_1418 Woah, you were part of the team of fans who worked on translating the newspapers to Polish? pl.clubpenguin.wikia.com/wiki/Club_Penguin_Times?diff=8065&oldid=7515 That looks like it took a ton of effort. Thanks for sharing your story!
@@Mag_1418 By the way, do you or any of the people who worked on the Polish translations still have the original English versions saved? Funnily enough, some of the fan translations were archived, but the original English versions were not. The English versions of newspaper issues # 59, 75, 134, 136, 192 are not currently publicly archived.
MalibuBird sadly, I didn't save anything... I think there must have been around 20 people who were regularly involved in translation, so bits of text could be scattered in their archives.
Club Penguin was a big part of my childhood, and I, and I'd like to think that a lot of us, were heartbroken by hearing about it being shutdown. But, it does warm my heart to know that even the minds that first started it hold hope for its future, and that it affected them just as much as the users.
10 years later you inspired a little girl in Australia (me) to pursue animation and honestly, if Club Penguin still existed today it would be a dream come true to continue its legacy.
The end of the video made me get so emotional when you referred to club penguin users as all of your kids :'( This game was a huge part of my brother and I's childhood, as well as a LOT of my friends. I was lucky to have found the game in around 2007 when I was just a 7 year old and the detail and the care that went into the game blew my mind. I remember finding out about the PSA for the first time and being so excited to tell my brother about it, and my parents being confused when I later tried to explain card-jitsu to them. I have such warm memories from that time because it was such a wholesome game that created a really friendly and fun atmosphere that I absolutely loved to play in, as the world felt so real to me as a kid. Me and my brother have even been playing cp rewritten for nostalgic purposes and I feel so calm when I play it now (I even played it before I collected my grades this year to see if I got into college, as an escape from impending adulthood!). It's so lovely to see that you guys really care about those who played the game, because it's helped to inspire so many of us to go into creative fields ourselves as adults! I'm going to university to study media now and my brother is going to be studying video game design in the future, and I hope one day I get to inspire as many people as this game did and make a positive impact on the world :)
I was crying at the end here. This game has been very important to me growing up. I don't know who I'd be without it? I joined way back in 2006; I was only ten years old. This game is what got me into drawing in the first place. English is also not my native language, and this made me way more interested in actually learning it, and look at me now, I'm completely fluent, more than the rest of my peers in real life. And.. I guess people love my art by this point. People are actually willing to pay for it. Everyone irl expects me to publish comics now. So.. that's something. And I can tell it definitely made an impact on many other people too. Definitely helps that most of us got into it during our formative years, hahah. The little comment about the activist kids also being club penguin fans made me tear up, I'm so proud of them. Just.. I'm really happy to have had this in my life. Thank you for being a part of it. It's a shame that Disney doesn't seem to think it's worth running anymore. I actually had hope for CPI. It could've become something amazing, but it seems the world wasn't quite ready for it yet. :c
That fact about the parkland shooting shook me, I, a Club Penguin fan, wasn't surprised. Most people get made fun of and they go online and play games where they can easily make friends. (I did exactly that) So it really didn't surprise me that they were, but it also made me feel weird.
i was so obsessed w/ club penguin as a kid from 2007-early 2010. i made my own blog and YT vids abt club penguin & kickstarted my entire love/career of making videos and writing stories. & it was a great escape as i had no friends & a bad environment growing up. i remember even calling club penguin on my familys landline multiple times a week just to share my ideas i had & love for the game. ill never be able to forget it, it was rly just like magic to me as a child. i remember even wanting to meet you, lance, & billybob!! miss those days. love the contributions you made to this game, itll genuinely be apart of my life forever
As as a 20 year old today, Club Penguin really helped me as a younger child. I started playing in 2007-2008, I think I was 7-8 years old. It really impacted my childhood. I remember going to Disneyland in 2010? And I saw the Castle Pin and Puffles, and I was in shock that there was physical Club Penguin merch, so I begged my mom for one and I got one! I believe it was a Yellow Puffle plushy and it came with a code (which I ended up losing when I slept in our hotel bed because I kept it in my hand when I fell asleep and when I woke up it was gone, I was saddened and confused and I still remember that today). Wow this is such a blessing to have created this game, and I know it has impacted an entire generation of youth and taught them about hard work, earning coins, and most especially making memories with friends. Thank you and bless you. I grew up in Richmond, B.C. so I was pleasantly surprised to know this game started in my province. Thank you for your contribution to the world and my youth. I'm teary eyed as I write this sentiment. But thank you
Thank you for this video. I met my best friend when I was in kindergarten way back in 2009. Even though it was so long ago, we both remember that the first thing he ever said to me was “Do you play Club Penguin?”. Now I’m going to be a sophomore in high school and that same friend has just recently came back home from a month of drug rehab, but I made sure I let him know how much I cared about him. If it weren’t for that bond that you helped establish all those years ago I’m not sure if I’d still be talking to him
Oh man I live in Calgary and I remember begging my parents to drive out to Kelowna during the summer so I could visit the CP office building. Never happened lol
The ending made me cry. I am a club penguin kid, and I always will be. Club Penguin brought so many people together, and brought out the best in all of us. It taught me how to make friends, how to save up money, and even how to read. I am so thankful to everything it has taught me and it will always be a part of me. It showed me that safety and happiness and pure human connection can exist, and I will fight for that goodness in the real world. Waddle on!!
I've been rewatching a lot of club penguin videos, playing unofficial versions of the game still out there, listening to all the music, and I want to play the wii game that I haven't played in so long I'm making fanart right now of my favorite time on club penguin, the mini game inside Rockhopper's ship during Christmas I loved that game so much and I wanted Rockhopper to stay just to play it I didn't have many consoles and games as a kid so free computer games like club penguin and roblox were the games I played the most There's a few moments I can pin down where important in my "gaming" journey and going to school that day, going to computer class, everyone playing club penguin and coming home to beg my grandma to help me make an account was one of them I don't play a lot of games but I love games I love knowing how they work, all the trickeries at play to make a world people love I love art and computer graphics Limitations bringing out interesting quirks I've always wanted to make great art I've always made art a bit but nothing too crazy or meaningful I've started seriously making art with the 3D program Blender and I love it I'll make a game someday Not yet, I can't juggle many new skills at once Maybe you will see this, maybe you won't You already know the children of club penguin have been inspired by you and all the other people working on the game It's just so great seeing stuff behind the scene
I'm glad it's influenced you in such a positive way! And I'm glad you enjoyed Rockhopper's Treasure Hunt game... I built the initial prototype of that.
I grew up with Club Penguin and have just moved to Kelowna from the UK. Can’t believe my new home is also the home of my favourite childhood game. I went to the Indigo at Orchard Park this week!
Club Penguin tbh is amazing. It will live on. I will continue to cosplay it, make fanart of it, spread notice of rewritten. I originally heard of Penguin Chat through my dad as a kid and I basically forgot about it until CP came out, and I followed it from there 'till closing. It helped me through dark times of my mental health and it brought me joy, it made me feel accepted when I wasn't in my real life. It helped me find a sense of identity and friends, and honestly I get really emotional when it comes to it. Waddle on, and thank you for bringing it to life.
I'm glad that you're showing the world the beautiful Okanagan. I'm so proud that this amazing online game was developed around where I live. Thanks for making my childhood so fantastic, I will forever be grateful.
awesome video one of the side effects of the medication for my mental illness is that it is really difficult to cry for me no matter how emotional i get and how much i want to cry, but this video in fact made me cry! i finally was able to cry after almost a year! i feel so released and i love that this was the way i realized how much club penguin actually meant to me club penguin lives in us! Waddle on!
this had me crying! you have such a heart of gold. it makes me so happy to know you were behind so many of my best childhood memories. club penguin was a place that I often found refuge in as a young child all the way through my teens. im so glad youtube put this in my recommendations. waddle on :-)
I live in Kamloops which, for those who don’t know is about 2 hours from Kelowna. When I was younger and I found out that CP was made in Kelowna I was like “Waaaaaahh?!? I’VE BEEN THERE!!!”
Club Penguin was a game I played as a child then drifted away from it when I got older although since the closing of the original game I have become more interested and I am able to understand the game better thanks for telling the story! At least Club Penguin Rewritten is here to provide some memories
If i ever see you in person, i gotta hug you lol. Club penguin wasn’t just a game for me, helped me through my parents divorce and many other dark times. Made mine and so many others childhoods. Mad respect for you, Chris. Waddle on brother❤️
Chris Hendricks Well, for me personally, the music is BY FAR the most nostalgic part of Club Penguin. Probably the most nostalgic part of my childhood actually... Cheers again!
as someone who grew up with both club penguin and homestar runner, it's really cool to hear you mention gathering around watching the latest strong bad email. that's such a planets aligning moment for me
hello chris, I'm 15 years old and I'm a not very entertaining animator, but I always adhere to club penguin and always wanted to work with the old team, I think you were one of my influences to want to draw, I thank you all, many My friends from Brazil also thank you !! really thanks !!
it's interesting hearing you talk about how the purchase of club penguin by disney as a dream come true for me, I see it as the beginning of club penguin's downfall disney is where online games go to die
I think whether or not people liked this update or that update, or the early days of Club Penguin or even the newer days near the end, I think it's safe to say that Club Penguin really had an impact on people. I think one of my favourite events in Club Penguin would be Coins for Change. Everything from the Christmas aesthetics, music, coming together as a community and (most importantly), getting that darn coin bar to the top in order to help those in real life - they were all so wonderful.
Your videos are so appreciated, Chris. I started playing club penguin a little before the bandana and horseshoe pin were added I think in 2006? Or maybe the first free item I got was the inflatable arm floaties if that came before it? I was raised in a low income household with a single mom of 4 children so membership wasn’t an option for me, so I appreciated the free item and pin events. I was 10 or 11 and totally fascinated with the world, I still fondly remember the soundtracks, the song from the plaza I think still gets stuck in my head randomly to this day. Also the pizzeria soundtrack stuck with me too as I spent a lot of time in there pretending to order pizza lol. I’m now 29 and have been working in media and art for over 10 years. At times I’ve even felt inspired to start developing my own game in an effort to capture some essence of the curiosity and fun and i felt from participating and exploring games like club penguin during my youth. Time really flies, and I really appreciate these authentic videos of you pulling back the curtain to reveal your contribution and stories behind such a substantial part of my childhood. Thank you so much for sharing your authentic self and story with us.
Club Penguin may be the only game that I really want to collect merch/its games and save the major part of its themes forever, despite Nintendo ones. Ever since I first got my Mix-n'-Match toys and saw its quality I was just so amazed to the quality. The moment that I saw a game that I liked in my own hands and just how the penguins were beautiful. They might be a little ugly now because of the fact of how I played in water with them. But they'll be forever with me, not only the physical things, but the friends I made, who I still talk or not. It's a thing that I don't, won't I forget, and that I'll surely pass up to my kids. The funny moments that I had with my friend in-game, and the frustrating attempts in 2010 to get Rockhopper's password in the 009 Soundsystem Style, haha. You are, alongside with Miyamoto, one of mjne biggest inspirations. I really want to make games, program and draw its art, and you being the one that made themes, furnitures, clothes and arts I love just makes me get more and more amazed at your work! Also, highlighting this topic, your musics are just incredible, I'll always get emotional while listening to it, and I'll never get tired of them (the BTS series tho). I don't play any instruments, but you and other games/shows are my inspiration to play piano, and ofc, it's was you and Nintendo games/some shows make me get in love with that instrument. You're awesome and please keep doing your amazing work and sharing to us a lot of your ways to make your themes (and maybe arts and program), because you were a big part of the Club Penguin Team until 2012 and can't be never be forgotten. Thank you for all the good memories and waddle on!!
Thank you for everything Chris. This video was so emotional in such a great way. Club Penguin will always be alive, in so many different ways. The impact it has had on the world is surreal and even though the official online Virtual Worlds may no longer exist, Club Penguin will live on in so many different ways, in our hearts, in those schools that were built, in those animals that were saved, in everything that Club Penguin was a part of, it will never die. Once A Penguin Always A Penguin. Waddle On.
I have memories of playing Club Penguin in my cousins’ basement. It was a huge part of my childhood. That and Webkinz. Those were my two favourite games.
I really like what youre doing man! I started playing clubpenguin in the summer of 2007 i stopped playing as i got older (im 21 now) but now my little brother has started playing Cpr and it really brought back memories, all the music you created is a ultimate dose of nostalgia keep up the videos man, waddle on!
It’s insane. I also live in the Okanagan and I forgot that the game I spent thousands of hours playing for years as a kid, a game that influenced me quite a bit, was made in a city 30 minutes away.
Okay so I’m crying now. Thank you so so much for doing this. It’s really nice to get some essence of closure from someone who was there from the start of Club Penguin’s journey. It shaped who I am as a person and I wouldn’t trade my experiences with it for anything. It had always been my dream to work for the company, because it is literally everything I love and am good at, and I grew up with it so I always felt like I’d trust myself to continue to make it a safe, happy place. Of course that can’t happen now, but thank you so much for the hope that there might be a future for Club Penguin. If there is, I’d love to be a part of it. Thanks to everyone who worked on it in any way (that you can get the message to), for who I am and what I stand for. Waddle on.
WOW! This got me right in the heart! Very emotional video for me and i'm sure all other Club Penguin players around the world who see this video! Most of my life was around Club Penguin, started playing when i was 4 years old(2005 (Penguin Chat)) sharing an account with my 6 year old cousin, made my own first penguin when i was 5 and then the penguin i go by now(itay050) when i was 7 years old! had tons of other penguins too and played about every single Club Penguin Private Server that ever existed as well as founded and owned a pretty successful one! My biggest dream was probably to work for Club Penguin, when i heard Club Penguin was shutting down i was devastated but i understood the reason and just moved on with everyone! In my opinion Club Penguin has made one of the biggest impacts on the world in the last 20 years and i just can't thank you guys enough! You made my life better and made me who i am today! I will always keep supporting all of you guys and your future projects! Thank you for everything you have done for this world!🙏💙🐧🙏
I remember meeting one of the employees of club penguin when I was little at Willow park Church in rutland and I was so excited. If I ever see you around Kelowna hopefully I'll recognise you cuz I'll surely be asking for an autograph and a selfie 🤳
This makes me want to become CEO of Disney, so I could make a sequel to Club Penguin (that stays true to the original). Thanks for making the video. :)
Wow , what an emotional video you did there ! It made me cry so much especially because I could feel this passion and emotion through your voice and eyes... just can't help thinking that You could be the one who continue this legacy to us and to our kids in the future, because It remains so strong inside of us, it still have potential! Please don't ever let this "penguin" inside of us vanish away...♥
Club Penguin was a game that definitely defined my childhood, and I don't think I would be who I am today without it. It was something that I'll treasure for many years, even if I stopped playing years before its shutdown. It definitely helped me become more social, and I made a lot of good friends and great memories during my time playing. Definitely something that I think impacted a lot of kids.
Club Penguin helped me to make friends as me and other people I knew at school had a common interest after I found the game. Who knows where I could be without it.
That's a very interesting Story! That's true, Animations is not only TV & Cinema Stuff tho. So, you're a part of Flash Animation's Revolution in the Browser Franchise? - Woah :O I agree with you. I really would show Club Penguin Classic my child in future, but the Franchise already closes soon (Yeah ik, it excist CPR, but you know...) :C I also want to say a huge Thanks you, together with Rsnail! You created with him a great Game. You guys are the one, who made me the Comic Artist and the Hobby Musician. I don't know if you seen one of my regular Artworks somewhere, but I've learned from Club Penguin so much. I really wish to meet you irl for a personally Interview and that Stuff, but we both live so far away, and I'm shy to talk in a different Language, hahaha xD I can repeat it again and again: Thanks you for all! :3
I find myself revisiting this video from time to time, it was super well made and really captured the feel of a game that is loved by so many. I really hope you keep sharing stories like this where you see fit, because they are appreciated so much more when I think about just how much love went into a game I played for so much of my childhood, even if it's not really around anymore today.
I hope you are able to make a documentary. Seeing as you were willing to make this video, maybe a more full-length version is possible for the future -- just like Club Penguin would be for the flash game industry so many years ago. But either way, you are a legend and we are all very grateful for your efforts in making a world for everyone. Thank you very much.
I just found your channel. It's crazy to think that this game was being developed when i was very little, really far away from where i live (Argentina) and that some years later i started playing it, me being 9 or 10 years old. I played it a lot and i have so many fond memories attached to it (to this day i still catch myself unconciously singing the Town tune, so it's safe to say it was an important part of my childhood lol). What you said at the end was really really sweet. I'll always remember Club Penguin as a beautiful and fun place. Thank you ❤
This may be the most wholesome man ever. Ik it's been a couple of years since this video was made and since the channel was last active, but... thank you for having made my childhood and my life a better place Club Penguin may have been the single most influential force in my entire life, and it's safe to say I wouldn't be here if it hadn't been for you and the team Waddle on, man, thanks for everything :p
A very heartwarming message and video to us all. We're glad to have been part of this truly unique and globally connecting experience, that I to believe has made many of us around the world grow to become the better, more empathic versions of ourselves. Thank you for making these behind the scene videos. It was really nice to see it all from the view of its founding members and creators - all the ideas and good-hearted reasoning behind the creative decisions, as well as all the events that built the company and game up from scratch. Even though I've never been to (or heard of) Kelowna before, being inside that gazebo overlooking the beautiful, peaceful, cozy small town, it feels nostalgic, like a humble start to something truly great and everlasting in terms of ideology. Indeed, many of us have now grown up and have kids of our own - and the idea behind what Club Penguin was at its core has never left our minds and hearts. Waddle on!
I always say this: I'm really happy about how some nice technologic guys made a game that it gaves so many oportunities to the kids around the world, and I WAS one of them, always remember the 2010 december when at Christmas Party i joined in and i really get impressed of the lot of things you can do inside of a game, A HOLE NEW WORLD with a really interesting and emotional story that i never get tired of hear. The best thing i could get on the last decade, thank you guys.
This was really awesome and really well done Chris. Club Penguin WAS my childhood and this video was so insightful. It gives me hope that some day maybe I could do something as good ass what Club Penguin did for the world. Thank you, and thank you to the whole staff who dedicated their time to a wonderful little world.
in 2009 or 2010, or honestly maybe even after that. my dad somehow got us a tour of the cp office space (i think he painted someones house) we did the penguin sketching workshop and got special pencils and notebooks. i will ALWAYS remember the puffle bean bag chairs. i still want one so bad. anyways been watching your vids, miss cp. hate k town but boy was i a proud little kid living where my favourite game was made. thanks for all the good memories
Hey Chris, will you make a video on why you left club penguin? Is there any particular reason or you just grew tired of it? Thank you for all these amazing videos!
This is beautiful... Club penguin has been through out my life and club penguin still lives on. Thank you so much for this video and everything that you do. Words can't express how grateful I am for club penguin. I'm gonna cry ;____;
Thanks for all, i really love club penguin game xD it was perfect and a important part of my life, now i am starting to make videogames and i expect make as good games as you.
Club Penguin was a great experience for me I hope I get to introduce my children to some place similar to that, even if it shutdown. But I loved that game when I was a kid well it was a fun time, but I hope something happens later where Club Penguin gets revived. That's where I had a fun time even if it was online.
man I can't believe I got a little eye water near the end.. I played cp from July 2010 to around 14 almost every day and after 2015 I started playing less and less. I was struck hard of the news of the shut down and started playing as much as I could this got me back into it at 18/19 then the day after I found out about Club penguin rewritten, I played that everyday for around 20 mins then started playing it less. BUT I keep playing and im 20.. I have to say I wasn't really a fan of CPI but it was cool and fun, just limited. I stopped playing it altogether after my week membership trial ended (for the most part I did hop on here and there. It's sad to know official Club penguin is coming to an end. but long live the community made servers. club penguin helped me learn my typing skills and words, and it just overall empowered my imagination that was already strong. THANKS FOR EVERYTHING OLD AND NEW CP TEAM YOU ARE THE BEST. WADDLE ON. ~Hotdogry1
Thank you for making this. Club Penguin was an insanely huge part of my childhood. Growing up, I didn't have the best family environment and Club Penguin gave me a happy place to escape to - and I made lifelong friends along the way. I loved CP so much that I made UA-cam videos about it which made me realize I have a passion for video production. Later on my friend (now fiance) met chatting about the game and we ended up creating one of the first CP private servers in existence. (Sorry, Disney!) We saved up enough money from our server to meet in person. 8 years later, we're still together! I'm hoping someday we will create a game that could have such a large impact on other children in the same way CP did for us.
Thank you, Chris, for helping make my childhood awesome.
Waddle On!
Wow! That's so awesome! I always find it amazing that anyone was able to communicate on CP, let alone have lifelong friends or even find who they're going to marry! I love this story! I'm sure you'll make awesome things too.
This is awesome
omg this is so cuteee :'')))
In 2005-2006 I was in foster care and my foster parents allowed me to make an account, I was able to stay in touch with friends and my 6 year old foster sister after I moved back in with my mom through club penguin. I'm 25 now and I still remember my foster mom helping me solve the missions. I recently found out about club penguin rewritten and it made me so happy that some kid out there could also be getting help with missions from their foster parents.
This makes me so happy. I'm so glad you were able to keep in touch with them.
OKAY IM NOW CRYING WHEN U TALKED ABOUT HOW OLD CP FANS ARE NOW ACTIVIST!!!
Who are you I'm seeing you everywhere
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This video was really educational and emotional. I love to think of the fact that someday Club Penguin will return at some point. I think we can only hope for the community to stay strong until that time comes. Really nice to have this history lesson of the early history of it. Amazing video!
play.cprewritten.net/
@@ondrajavorik1580 cp3d.org as well. :)
Follow Ondra's link, Club Penguin Rewritten is your best bet.
Screenhog himself was interviewed in a CP Rewritten broadcast hosted by the staff, which you can find here!
ua-cam.com/video/u-quBTxWugc/v-deo.html
oh hi will
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I think the community is the best part of club penguin, coming in close with basically everything else (and at this point, I'd like to point out the mindset gone into Club Penguin that made the game so perfect and wholesome, which was making it a silly little game that was fun enough to start playing once say you get home from school. It was a break from the outside world and was so free and fun, especially when a party was on. I remember that every month or so, I would go to a shopping centre thirty minutes away from my home town and buy membership cards. Heck, whenever I write membership, I think back to Club Penguin that first showed the term to me. I even learnt how to spell it from this game.) But anyway, the community was so nice from my memory and just saying, if there is someone that was a Club Penguin fan in the day, that's a pretty damn good conversation starter. Nothing brings people quite together like a wholesome game from 2005 called Club Penguin.
Oof, that was a long comment.
I feel very privileged that you took Club Penguin fans on a grand tour of Club Penguin's special places around Kelowna. If I were to visit Kelowna again, I would spent time going to these places and reflect on those occurrences that led to Club Penguin's success. This is an even deeper tour than the CP HQ tours, which includes important places like the meeting room in which you were informed of the Disney purchase.
I enjoyed the humor you had incorporated in your video, as well as the insightful messages you have left regarding Club Penguin's impact on the people of Kelowna and the world. Even if the game itself is gone, its spirit and positivity lives on in the actions and beliefs of employees and fans alike. WADDLE ON!
I second this! Waddle on ☺️
Kelowna is a beautiful city.
Thanks! It's even more beautiful in the summer, in my opinion.
Interesting to hear more details of how Club Penguin started! Love the humor of you stating place names that are badly named. 😂
"Being an animator doesn't only mean working for TV or movies, it could mean working in video games." YESSSSS!
I discovered Lakeview Road about a decade ago, and had been waiting for the right place to use that joke. :)
(To be fair, when Kelowna was a very small city, I'm sure you could see the lake from there. People made buildings and planted trees since then.)
Waddle on, thank you for doing a great job
Ack, this had me crying. Club Penguin was apart of my childhood from around 2010, and I played it til it shut down. Even if I had only logged on occasionally towards the present, man, did little 5 year old me LOVE it.
It was really awesome to see where it all started and took off, and it even helped me grow as an artist now. Thank you!
There's still an audience who want to see the original game return.
It's unlikely, but maybe we'll see another revamp (or something else) of the game in the future.
Club Penguin Rewritten :)
Box critters
700y yeah you got something else called Club Penguin Island, why didn’t they realese club penguin island before deleting the original clubpenguin to get a viewer response so we still had the original and Club Penguin island died like it did normally
i know about a fan-remake game called club penguin 3d, its pretty cool give it a try
@Safwaan still had a lot of potential, and club penguin island just continued that trend
I've been playing club penguin rewritten for 3 years now, I just can't stop playing the game. I'm in college, and you'd be surprised it's mostly college kids still playing club penguin (rewritten).
Same here. Every time I have a break in/between semesters I boot it up to goof around
Well of course it’s only college kids playing it, because they’re the kids that grew up with the original game and have nostalgia for it. Little kids these days play games like Minecraft or Roblox instead, so they’re not going to be playing on CPPS
Thank you for this video... I teared up at the end. ;( I was playing Club Penguin from age 10 to 21. I feel like the game had a huge impact on my life. I got better at drawing by making fanart, and at English by translating the newspaper for the Polish community (which was HUGE btw). This directly helped me get into art school and get my first job abroad. I owe so much to this game.
I remember the Polish group! It had a picture of the ice fishing penguin on the front of the page, but traditional Polish clothing was added. We seriously admired your dedication to translating the paper every week. That was so cool.
@@ChrisHendricks It was a big group effort, so many people were involved. Funnily enough, some of the members (now young adults) are still connected over Facebook. I'm gonna screenshot this message to them. :) Thank you!
@@Mag_1418 Woah, you were part of the team of fans who worked on translating the newspapers to Polish?
pl.clubpenguin.wikia.com/wiki/Club_Penguin_Times?diff=8065&oldid=7515
That looks like it took a ton of effort. Thanks for sharing your story!
@@Mag_1418 By the way, do you or any of the people who worked on the Polish translations still have the original English versions saved? Funnily enough, some of the fan translations were archived, but the original English versions were not. The English versions of newspaper issues # 59, 75, 134, 136, 192 are not currently publicly archived.
MalibuBird sadly, I didn't save anything... I think there must have been around 20 people who were regularly involved in translation, so bits of text could be scattered in their archives.
Club Penguin was a big part of my childhood, and I, and I'd like to think that a lot of us, were heartbroken by hearing about it being shutdown. But, it does warm my heart to know that even the minds that first started it hold hope for its future, and that it affected them just as much as the users.
10 years later you inspired a little girl in Australia (me) to pursue animation and honestly, if Club Penguin still existed today it would be a dream come true to continue its legacy.
The end of the video made me get so emotional when you referred to club penguin users as all of your kids :'( This game was a huge part of my brother and I's childhood, as well as a LOT of my friends. I was lucky to have found the game in around 2007 when I was just a 7 year old and the detail and the care that went into the game blew my mind. I remember finding out about the PSA for the first time and being so excited to tell my brother about it, and my parents being confused when I later tried to explain card-jitsu to them.
I have such warm memories from that time because it was such a wholesome game that created a really friendly and fun atmosphere that I absolutely loved to play in, as the world felt so real to me as a kid. Me and my brother have even been playing cp rewritten for nostalgic purposes and I feel so calm when I play it now (I even played it before I collected my grades this year to see if I got into college, as an escape from impending adulthood!).
It's so lovely to see that you guys really care about those who played the game, because it's helped to inspire so many of us to go into creative fields ourselves as adults! I'm going to university to study media now and my brother is going to be studying video game design in the future, and I hope one day I get to inspire as many people as this game did and make a positive impact on the world :)
I was crying at the end here. This game has been very important to me growing up. I don't know who I'd be without it?
I joined way back in 2006; I was only ten years old. This game is what got me into drawing in the first place. English is also not my native language, and this made me way more interested in actually learning it, and look at me now, I'm completely fluent, more than the rest of my peers in real life. And.. I guess people love my art by this point. People are actually willing to pay for it. Everyone irl expects me to publish comics now. So.. that's something.
And I can tell it definitely made an impact on many other people too. Definitely helps that most of us got into it during our formative years, hahah. The little comment about the activist kids also being club penguin fans made me tear up, I'm so proud of them.
Just.. I'm really happy to have had this in my life. Thank you for being a part of it.
It's a shame that Disney doesn't seem to think it's worth running anymore. I actually had hope for CPI. It could've become something amazing, but it seems the world wasn't quite ready for it yet. :c
That fact about the parkland shooting shook me, I, a Club Penguin fan, wasn't surprised. Most people get made fun of and they go online and play games where they can easily make friends. (I did exactly that) So it really didn't surprise me that they were, but it also made me feel weird.
i was so obsessed w/ club penguin as a kid from 2007-early 2010. i made my own blog and YT vids abt club penguin & kickstarted my entire love/career of making videos and writing stories. & it was a great escape as i had no friends & a bad environment growing up. i remember even calling club penguin on my familys landline multiple times a week just to share my ideas i had & love for the game. ill never be able to forget it, it was rly just like magic to me as a child. i remember even wanting to meet you, lance, & billybob!! miss those days. love the contributions you made to this game, itll genuinely be apart of my life forever
That ending made me cry :(
Viva La Vida Club Penguin
As as a 20 year old today, Club Penguin really helped me as a younger child. I started playing in 2007-2008, I think I was 7-8 years old. It really impacted my childhood. I remember going to Disneyland in 2010? And I saw the Castle Pin and Puffles, and I was in shock that there was physical Club Penguin merch, so I begged my mom for one and I got one! I believe it was a Yellow Puffle plushy and it came with a code (which I ended up losing when I slept in our hotel bed because I kept it in my hand when I fell asleep and when I woke up it was gone, I was saddened and confused and I still remember that today). Wow this is such a blessing to have created this game, and I know it has impacted an entire generation of youth and taught them about hard work, earning coins, and most especially making memories with friends. Thank you and bless you. I grew up in Richmond, B.C. so I was pleasantly surprised to know this game started in my province. Thank you for your contribution to the world and my youth. I'm teary eyed as I write this sentiment. But thank you
That's so awesome. Thanks for the comment, and sorry about the plush code thing! Do you ever get a chance to visit Kelowna?
Thank you for this video. I met my best friend when I was in kindergarten way back in 2009. Even though it was so long ago, we both remember that the first thing he ever said to me was “Do you play Club Penguin?”. Now I’m going to be a sophomore in high school and that same friend has just recently came back home from a month of drug rehab, but I made sure I let him know how much I cared about him. If it weren’t for that bond that you helped establish all those years ago I’m not sure if I’d still be talking to him
Oh man I live in Calgary and I remember begging my parents to drive out to Kelowna during the summer so I could visit the CP office building. Never happened lol
We are a special and lucky generation of people to grow up with Club Penguin, no other generation got to see
The ending made me cry. I am a club penguin kid, and I always will be. Club Penguin brought so many people together, and brought out the best in all of us. It taught me how to make friends, how to save up money, and even how to read. I am so thankful to everything it has taught me and it will always be a part of me. It showed me that safety and happiness and pure human connection can exist, and I will fight for that goodness in the real world. Waddle on!!
I've been rewatching a lot of club penguin videos, playing unofficial versions of the game still out there, listening to all the music, and I want to play the wii game that I haven't played in so long
I'm making fanart right now of my favorite time on club penguin, the mini game inside Rockhopper's ship during Christmas
I loved that game so much and I wanted Rockhopper to stay just to play it
I didn't have many consoles and games as a kid so free computer games like club penguin and roblox were the games I played the most
There's a few moments I can pin down where important in my "gaming" journey and going to school that day, going to computer class, everyone playing club penguin and coming home to beg my grandma to help me make an account was one of them
I don't play a lot of games but I love games
I love knowing how they work, all the trickeries at play to make a world people love
I love art and computer graphics
Limitations bringing out interesting quirks
I've always wanted to make great art
I've always made art a bit but nothing too crazy or meaningful
I've started seriously making art with the 3D program Blender and I love it
I'll make a game someday
Not yet, I can't juggle many new skills at once
Maybe you will see this, maybe you won't
You already know the children of club penguin have been inspired by you and all the other people working on the game
It's just so great seeing stuff behind the scene
I'm glad it's influenced you in such a positive way! And I'm glad you enjoyed Rockhopper's Treasure Hunt game... I built the initial prototype of that.
I grew up with Club Penguin and have just moved to Kelowna from the UK. Can’t believe my new home is also the home of my favourite childhood game. I went to the Indigo at Orchard Park this week!
Club Penguin may stop but we won't stop waddling! It has indeed changed the world and people and I'm thankful for it. :)
Club Penguin tbh is amazing.
It will live on.
I will continue to cosplay it, make fanart of it, spread notice of rewritten.
I originally heard of Penguin Chat through my dad as a kid and I basically forgot about it until CP came out, and I followed it from there 'till closing.
It helped me through dark times of my mental health and it brought me joy, it made me feel accepted when I wasn't in my real life. It helped me find a sense of identity and friends, and honestly I get really emotional when it comes to it.
Waddle on, and thank you for bringing it to life.
i remember getting to go on tours of the club penguin headquarters in elementary school. it was the best field trip ever
Kelsey Hann Same with my brother
I'm glad that you're showing the world the beautiful Okanagan. I'm so proud that this amazing online game was developed around where I live. Thanks for making my childhood so fantastic, I will forever be grateful.
In some ways, I wish I'd made it in the summer instead of December. It's a little more beautiful now. :)
awesome video
one of the side effects of the medication for my mental illness is that it is really difficult to cry for me no matter how emotional i get and how much i want to cry, but this video in fact made me cry! i finally was able to cry after almost a year! i feel so released and i love that this was the way i realized how much club penguin actually meant to me
club penguin lives in us! Waddle on!
this had me crying! you have such a heart of gold. it makes me so happy to know you were behind so many of my best childhood memories. club penguin was a place that I often found refuge in as a young child all the way through my teens. im so glad youtube put this in my recommendations. waddle on :-)
I live in Kamloops which, for those who don’t know is about 2 hours from Kelowna. When I was younger and I found out that CP was made in Kelowna I was like “Waaaaaahh?!? I’VE BEEN THERE!!!”
Club Penguin was a game I played as a child then drifted away from it when I got older although since the closing of the original game I have become more interested and I am able to understand the game better thanks for telling the story! At least Club Penguin Rewritten is here to provide some memories
I still play stuff like CPPS.me regularly
If i ever see you in person, i gotta hug you lol. Club penguin wasn’t just a game for me, helped me through my parents divorce and many other dark times. Made mine and so many others childhoods. Mad respect for you, Chris. Waddle on brother❤️
I played a very small part in it, but you're welcome! (I'll accept the virtual hug for now. :) )
Chris Hendricks Well, for me personally, the music is BY FAR the most nostalgic part of Club Penguin. Probably the most nostalgic part of my childhood actually... Cheers again!
as someone who grew up with both club penguin and homestar runner, it's really cool to hear you mention gathering around watching the latest strong bad email. that's such a planets aligning moment for me
LOL yeah. Lance was the one who introduced me to Homestar Runner back in 2003. I still love it.
Oml this is sad yet memorable. I love learning more about its past, esp during the era when I was mostly interested in the game!
hello chris, I'm 15 years old and I'm a not very entertaining animator, but I always adhere to club penguin and always wanted to work with the old team, I think you were one of my influences to want to draw, I thank you all, many My friends from Brazil also thank you !! really thanks !!
as someone raised in and who still lives in kelowna, and huge club penguin fan, this video is an absolute treat to watch. love the channel :)
it's interesting hearing you talk about how the purchase of club penguin by disney as a dream come true
for me, I see it as the beginning of club penguin's downfall
disney is where online games go to die
I think whether or not people liked this update or that update, or the early days of Club Penguin or even the newer days near the end, I think it's safe to say that Club Penguin really had an impact on people. I think one of my favourite events in Club Penguin would be Coins for Change. Everything from the Christmas aesthetics, music, coming together as a community and (most importantly), getting that darn coin bar to the top in order to help those in real life - they were all so wonderful.
Your videos are so appreciated, Chris. I started playing club penguin a little before the bandana and horseshoe pin were added I think in 2006? Or maybe the first free item I got was the inflatable arm floaties if that came before it? I was raised in a low income household with a single mom of 4 children so membership wasn’t an option for me, so I appreciated the free item and pin events. I was 10 or 11 and totally fascinated with the world, I still fondly remember the soundtracks, the song from the plaza I think still gets stuck in my head randomly to this day. Also the pizzeria soundtrack stuck with me too as I spent a lot of time in there pretending to order pizza lol. I’m now 29 and have been working in media and art for over 10 years. At times I’ve even felt inspired to start developing my own game in an effort to capture some essence of the curiosity and fun and i felt from participating and exploring games like club penguin during my youth. Time really flies, and I really appreciate these authentic videos of you pulling back the curtain to reveal your contribution and stories behind such a substantial part of my childhood. Thank you so much for sharing your authentic self and story with us.
Club Penguin may be the only game that I really want to collect merch/its games and save the major part of its themes forever, despite Nintendo ones. Ever since I first got my Mix-n'-Match toys and saw its quality I was just so amazed to the quality. The moment that I saw a game that I liked in my own hands and just how the penguins were beautiful. They might be a little ugly now because of the fact of how I played in water with them. But they'll be forever with me, not only the physical things, but the friends I made, who I still talk or not. It's a thing that I don't, won't I forget, and that I'll surely pass up to my kids. The funny moments that I had with my friend in-game, and the frustrating attempts in 2010 to get Rockhopper's password in the 009 Soundsystem Style, haha. You are, alongside with Miyamoto, one of mjne biggest inspirations. I really want to make games, program and draw its art, and you being the one that made themes, furnitures, clothes and arts I love just makes me get more and more amazed at your work! Also, highlighting this topic, your musics are just incredible, I'll always get emotional while listening to it, and I'll never get tired of them (the BTS series tho). I don't play any instruments, but you and other games/shows are my inspiration to play piano, and ofc, it's was you and Nintendo games/some shows make me get in love with that instrument. You're awesome and please keep doing your amazing work and sharing to us a lot of your ways to make your themes (and maybe arts and program), because you were a big part of the Club Penguin Team until 2012 and can't be never be forgotten. Thank you for all the good memories and waddle on!!
Thank you for everything Chris. This video was so emotional in such a great way.
Club Penguin will always be alive, in so many different ways. The impact it has had on the world is surreal and even though the official online Virtual Worlds may no longer exist, Club Penguin will live on in so many different ways, in our hearts, in those schools that were built, in those animals that were saved, in everything that Club Penguin was a part of, it will never die.
Once A Penguin Always A Penguin.
Waddle On.
I have memories of playing Club Penguin in my cousins’ basement. It was a huge part of my childhood. That and Webkinz. Those were my two favourite games.
thank you for making this! Waddle on...
CLUB PENGUIN IS FROM KELOWNA??? That's insane! I live around Vancouver and had a band trip a few years ago to Kelowna. Wonderful place!
Yep! Built in Kelowna.
And for a big city, Vancouver's pretty awesome too. :)
I really like what youre doing man! I started playing clubpenguin in the summer of 2007 i stopped playing as i got older (im 21 now) but now my little brother has started playing Cpr and it really brought back memories, all the music you created is a ultimate dose of nostalgia keep up the videos man, waddle on!
I played CP from June 2008-2014 (age 7 to 13 or 14) and I've been playing CPPSes for the past 7 years or so
It’s insane. I also live in the Okanagan and I forgot that the game I spent thousands of hours playing for years as a kid, a game that influenced me quite a bit, was made in a city 30 minutes away.
Okay so I’m crying now. Thank you so so much for doing this. It’s really nice to get some essence of closure from someone who was there from the start of Club Penguin’s journey. It shaped who I am as a person and I wouldn’t trade my experiences with it for anything. It had always been my dream to work for the company, because it is literally everything I love and am good at, and I grew up with it so I always felt like I’d trust myself to continue to make it a safe, happy place. Of course that can’t happen now, but thank you so much for the hope that there might be a future for Club Penguin. If there is, I’d love to be a part of it. Thanks to everyone who worked on it in any way (that you can get the message to), for who I am and what I stand for. Waddle on.
WOW! This got me right in the heart! Very emotional video for me and i'm sure all other Club Penguin players around the world who see this video! Most of my life was around Club Penguin, started playing when i was 4 years old(2005 (Penguin Chat)) sharing an account with my 6 year old cousin, made my own first penguin when i was 5 and then the penguin i go by now(itay050) when i was 7 years old! had tons of other penguins too and played about every single Club Penguin Private Server that ever existed as well as founded and owned a pretty successful one!
My biggest dream was probably to work for Club Penguin, when i heard Club Penguin was shutting down i was devastated but i understood the reason and just moved on with everyone!
In my opinion Club Penguin has made one of the biggest impacts on the world in the last 20 years and i just can't thank you guys enough! You made my life better and made me who i am today! I will always keep supporting all of you guys and your future projects! Thank you for everything you have done for this world!🙏💙🐧🙏
CP was how I got my username that I use for everything
It was just something random I had came up with back in 2008 because everything was taken lol
I remember meeting one of the employees of club penguin when I was little at Willow park Church in rutland and I was so excited. If I ever see you around Kelowna hopefully I'll recognise you cuz I'll surely be asking for an autograph and a selfie 🤳
This makes me want to become CEO of Disney, so I could make a sequel to Club Penguin (that stays true to the original).
Thanks for making the video. :)
CP had a sequel
@@berbtheherb but it was awful and hardly anyone liked it
Wow , what an emotional video you did there ! It made me cry so much especially because I could feel this passion and emotion through your voice and eyes... just can't help thinking that You could be the one who continue this legacy to us and to our kids in the future, because It remains so strong inside of us, it still have potential! Please don't ever let this "penguin" inside of us vanish away...♥
Club Penguin was a game that definitely defined my childhood, and I don't think I would be who I am today without it. It was something that I'll treasure for many years, even if I stopped playing years before its shutdown. It definitely helped me become more social, and I made a lot of good friends and great memories during my time playing.
Definitely something that I think impacted a lot of kids.
Club Penguin helped me to make friends as me and other people I knew at school had a common interest after I found the game. Who knows where I could be without it.
That's a very interesting Story!
That's true, Animations is not only TV & Cinema Stuff tho.
So, you're a part of Flash Animation's Revolution in the Browser Franchise? - Woah :O I agree with you. I really would show Club Penguin Classic my child in future, but the Franchise already closes soon (Yeah ik, it excist CPR, but you know...) :C
I also want to say a huge Thanks you, together with Rsnail! You created with him a great Game. You guys are the one, who made me the Comic Artist and the Hobby Musician. I don't know if you seen one of my regular Artworks somewhere, but I've learned from Club Penguin so much.
I really wish to meet you irl for a personally Interview and that Stuff, but we both live so far away, and I'm shy to talk in a different Language, hahaha xD
I can repeat it again and again:
Thanks you for all! :3
Thanks, Dialga!
Your Welcome! I also Thank you too for being one of CP's Creator Team :3
That is right. And I also want to interview Dialga hahahah
and I CAN'T EVEN SPEAK A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE, so forget about that part aahaha
oh hello dialga
-a cp3d mod
I find myself revisiting this video from time to time, it was super well made and really captured the feel of a game that is loved by so many. I really hope you keep sharing stories like this where you see fit, because they are appreciated so much more when I think about just how much love went into a game I played for so much of my childhood, even if it's not really around anymore today.
Nice one, Chris. Very well told.
I hope you are able to make a documentary. Seeing as you were willing to make this video, maybe a more full-length version is possible for the future -- just like Club Penguin would be for the flash game industry so many years ago. But either way, you are a legend and we are all very grateful for your efforts in making a world for everyone. Thank you very much.
No idea Club Penguin was made in Kelowna... getting more and more interested in one of my favorite games.
I just found your channel. It's crazy to think that this game was being developed when i was very little, really far away from where i live (Argentina) and that some years later i started playing it, me being 9 or 10 years old. I played it a lot and i have so many fond memories attached to it (to this day i still catch myself unconciously singing the Town tune, so it's safe to say it was an important part of my childhood lol).
What you said at the end was really really sweet. I'll always remember Club Penguin as a beautiful and fun place. Thank you ❤
This may be the most wholesome man ever.
Ik it's been a couple of years since this video was made and since the channel was last active, but... thank you for having made my childhood and my life a better place
Club Penguin may have been the single most influential force in my entire life, and it's safe to say I wouldn't be here if it hadn't been for you and the team
Waddle on, man, thanks for everything :p
A very heartwarming message and video to us all. We're glad to have been part of this truly unique and globally connecting experience, that I to believe has made many of us around the world grow to become the better, more empathic versions of ourselves. Thank you for making these behind the scene videos. It was really nice to see it all from the view of its founding members and creators - all the ideas and good-hearted reasoning behind the creative decisions, as well as all the events that built the company and game up from scratch. Even though I've never been to (or heard of) Kelowna before, being inside that gazebo overlooking the beautiful, peaceful, cozy small town, it feels nostalgic, like a humble start to something truly great and everlasting in terms of ideology. Indeed, many of us have now grown up and have kids of our own - and the idea behind what Club Penguin was at its core has never left our minds and hearts. Waddle on!
I always say this:
I'm really happy about how some nice technologic guys made a game that it gaves so many oportunities to the kids around the world, and I WAS one of them, always remember the 2010 december when at Christmas Party i joined in and i really get impressed of the lot of things you can do inside of a game, A HOLE NEW WORLD with a really interesting and emotional story that i never get tired of hear.
The best thing i could get on the last decade, thank you guys.
I really enjoyed this. Thank you. CP was a huge part of my childhood 2006-2009. Long live club penguin.
Club Penguin will forever live on! Beautiful words on the end of the video!
This was really awesome and really well done Chris. Club Penguin WAS my childhood and this video was so insightful. It gives me hope that some day maybe I could do something as good ass what Club Penguin did for the world. Thank you, and thank you to the whole staff who dedicated their time to a wonderful little world.
Whoever loves Club Penguin, loves Chris Hendricks
Awesome stuff, thanks for sharing
It’s 1 am and emotional about club penguin
in 2009 or 2010, or honestly maybe even after that. my dad somehow got us a tour of the cp office space (i think he painted someones house) we did the penguin sketching workshop and got special pencils and notebooks. i will ALWAYS remember the puffle bean bag chairs. i still want one so bad. anyways been watching your vids, miss cp. hate k town but boy was i a proud little kid living where my favourite game was made. thanks for all the good memories
lol my dad actually painted that bulk barn in the background. funny just noticed that
Hey Chris, will you make a video on why you left club penguin? Is there any particular reason or you just grew tired of it?
Thank you for all these amazing videos!
the parkland goblins being club penguin fans as teenagers is really funny to me
This is beautiful... Club penguin has been through out my life and club penguin still lives on. Thank you so much for this video and everything that you do. Words can't express how grateful I am for club penguin. I'm gonna cry ;____;
Thanks for all, i really love club penguin game xD it was perfect and a important part of my life, now i am starting to make videogames and i expect make as good games as you.
thankyou for this. CP will always have a special place in my heart. Thankyou.
Club penguin is awesome! Waddle on and good job screenhog !
We Are Big We are a Strong Community thing goes and it will always be in your hearts
I hope box critters will be "the next Club penguin"
Thank you Chris i am so informed.
Thank You for making this.
I love everything about this video, i can see how passionate you truly are about the whole project and game
"It saved lives, it built schools in Africa, it helped us like penguins more..."
You're talking of successors around the 13:00 mark - I asusme you've already heard about Box Critters, RocketSnail's new project?
Nice to see more history about where it started! :)
Great video, as a former CP Player this is cool to see. Also I could've sworn I've seen you at the Superstore in Kelowna haha
Club Penguin was a great experience for me I hope I get to introduce my children to some place similar to that, even if it shutdown. But I loved that game when I was a kid well it was a fun time, but I hope something happens later where Club Penguin gets revived. That's where I had a fun time even if it was online.
Club penguin will live forever...
Thank you for this video.
Club penguins anniversary is today, it's 17 years old!!!!!!
Thank you.
Chris´voice cracked a tiny little bit when he talked about the last christmass party
13:14 do you think that box critters would be the “club penguin for their kids”? It’s made by rocketsnail after all
An incredible story.
i appreciate you too.
12:06 - 17:02 I'm not crying, someone's just cutting up onions
Teared up a bit when you said waddle on no gonna lie
It was an emotional video to make, for sure. Especially at the end, there.
man I can't believe I got a little eye water near the end.. I played cp from July 2010 to around 14 almost every day and after 2015 I started playing less and less. I was struck hard of the news of the shut down and started playing as much as I could this got me back into it at 18/19 then the day after I found out about Club penguin rewritten, I played that everyday for around 20 mins then started playing it less. BUT I keep playing and im 20.. I have to say I wasn't really a fan of CPI but it was cool and fun, just limited. I stopped playing it altogether after my week membership trial ended (for the most part I did hop on here and there.
It's sad to know official Club penguin is coming to an end. but long live the community made servers. club penguin helped me learn my typing skills and words, and it just overall empowered my imagination that was already strong.
THANKS FOR EVERYTHING OLD AND NEW CP TEAM YOU ARE THE BEST. WADDLE ON. ~Hotdogry1
Thank you Chris