In the kids MMO Doodlandia, you can be whatever you want, because of the magical clock tower that brings all your drawings to life.

You’ve grown up with this game, made countless friends and enemies, and built a second life in it, but in just 6 hours the servers will permanently close, and Doodlandia will be gone forever.

Take one last look at the digital world you grew up in before it vanishes.

I served on this project as an engineer and sound designer. I worked alongside my amazing friend and working partner Ampheraptor who took care of art direction and narrative. Together, we created 12 as a love letter to the MMOs we grew up playing.

My contributions to 12

• Easy-to-use NPC creation system that allows designers to create NPCs code-free
• Dialogue trees and branching narrative
• Base level systems design to support a 3D world
• Music and sound
• Emulating the functional qualities of early children’s MMOs as part of creating a period piece

Inspiration

Me and Amp have a shared history with games like “Animal Jam”, “Pixie Hollow”, and “Club Penguin”. The experiences we had in children’s MMOs inspired us in an uncountable number of ways, but our playgrounds were uniquely ephemeral. Their closures were sudden, and often meant their total disappearance. We wanted to create a game that captured the last moments of a childhood virtual world: to represent the ultimatum of an online community.