User:Superdadsuper/BlogArchive/How an Island is made

Poptropicans, for a long time you've wondered how an island is made? How is the game made into these awesome islands full of adventure and action? But how is this all done.

First the creative staff of Poptropica comes together and decides what the island should be about. Once they at least come up with a story idea, they assign teams to get to work. The script writers write the full story in detail and depth, while the designers come up with the design for the island. The designers also design graphics for Poptropica, the website homepage and the GUI (Graphic User Interface), which is how the game feels, and how you can navigate around the site. They use photo editors like photoshop to make their work look profesional.

After the script writers write the script and the designers designed the island (the tone of the island and all) the illustrators come together to draw up the characters and materials in the game. Once they finish their drawings, they upload it to a computer where they use photo editors to color in the characters to give them a computerrized look. After doing so the developers take the images produced by the writers (effected by the designers input), and the script  created by the script writers and put it all together. They animate the images using Adobe Flash Player. With Adobe Flash Player the developers insert the images and Animate them using GUI tools and Javascript, a programming language (basically) to add interacitivity to a site from the players to the game materials. They use other programming languages as well to insert images exactly where needed and to make sure all the images move in the right direction.

Sounds like a lot work! You would think they hire a whole team of people. They only have about 13 people who do all of this, many of them doing several tasks. You think thats hard try making a 3-D virtual world instead and we'll see how it goes...