Winx Club Online Mentions in Merch

[juleic1123]

Oh and just a quick heads up. Believe it or not, Winx Adventure was made in under 4 months and never updated until the new team came along in early 2011. All the updates were already ready, the ones we got throughout 2010. The first guy sent me his resumeé and in the list "Winx Club Adventure" went from June 2010 to September 2010. So the game was literally made in 4 months.

Meanwhile me...

[Hallowinxer]

Oh and just a quick heads up. Believe it or not, Winx Adventure was made in under 4 months and never updated until the new team came along in early 2011. All the updates were already ready, the ones we got throughout 2010. The first guy sent me his resumeé and in the list "Winx Club Adventure" went from June 2010 to September 2010. So the game was literally made in 4 months.

Meanwhile me...

Under 4 months, that's crazy!! But remember that you're doing it from a scratch and alone and simultaneously multitasking with web avatar, forum and the whole website, and you're also avoiding the earlier mistakes they did so taking more time is just natural. I'm sure after all of this hard work your game will work much better than the original game and everything is worth it! We're here to support you!!

Btw it's super interesting to read more about the game! It's sad that because of the copyright issues the previous coders can't help you that much but I'm so glad to see how encouraging they were.

[juleic1123]

That's true, and even though it's a lot of work, it's absolutely worth it. I really think Winx Adventure is way better now and will run much more smoothly on everyone's computers.

Thank you so much for the compliments, it really means a lot. The fact I learned all of this by myself, knowing that everyone here thinks it's a good job means the world to me.

[natie]

I agree with Hallowinxer

Actually, this might be surprising to hear, but for everyone, Russian, Turkish and Dutch websites didn't even exist on the website. I found out about it last year when I started working on the minigames. Those languages were "hidden" and only shown to YOU. Users would have to manually change the url to lang 4 (dutch), 5 (russian) and 8 (turkish) to be able to access it and even then, going to another page seems to send you back to the english/your language since through waybackmachine I'm forced back into english if I attempt to click on any page.

For us, the website had: English, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese - in this order. This was the case for all these languages too, I have screenshots of the website in english and spanish with the language selector only showing these languages as well. The waybackmachine version of the website also confirms it, since all the versions of the website saved hide the russian, turkish and dutch lang.

I'll just go ahead and assume the game didn't exist in those languages because it meant not only 3 more versions to update manually (each language of the game was a new game itself, they weren't linked whatsoever) or the devs themselves didn't know about those languagues or had someone to help translate them.

I also don't believe the game was available in turkish now that I'm thinking about it. I remember visiting the WINX ADVENTURE of the turkish forum when I was a kid and only having 2 pages, at the time I found weird since the portuguese forum had like 20. (We had 53 when the subforum closed btw, I saved a picture on its last day )

As for the developers, yeah. It's really a shame.

I can actually leave the emails here I think. I tried to google both of the developers, but they're off the grid. Their websites and assets are gone from unity store.

Oh, I didn't know about Turkish But yeah, I remember that the language selector on the Russian site only included Russian, and when you clicked on it, it didn't open. It was clear that something was wrong (I think you can still experience this in the web archive) But once you manually switched to the English site, everything actually worked fine. It didn't redirect you back to the Russian one. At least I don't remember having those issues.

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if the fact that these three languages weren't listed with the others was an unintentional mistake. After all, the website's performance was far from perfect... And maybe the fact that we never got the Winx Adventure game in these languages was indeed just a result of some inconsistency during development. A lack of communication between all the teams working on the website and the game, idk... In the end, Gardenia Park had Russian language. And I have no doubt Gardenia Park was available in Dutch and Turkish too. So I just don't see any other reasons why things turned out the way they did. Moreover, Winx were super popular in the Turkish and Russian markets...


We really went off topic here, haha

Well, for anyone interested, here are the RC prices from May 2011

120 RC - 4.99 €
260 RC - 9.99 €
420 RC - 14.99 €
600 RC - 19.99 €

Believix costumes cost 36 RC btw
I wonder how much RC those plush toy codes gave

[deloreslaferve]

It's been interesting to learn about Winx Adventure.

[natie]

This is obviously not a merch , but here is Gardenia Park mention in Season 4.
Of course, it's no surprise that it was there, but let's take another look.

Episode 4x16 A virtual world (does anyone remember if it was mentioned in any other episodes?)












I also find it quite interesting that the credits in Season 4 used to have a section called "Online Department". Neither in the previous nor in the following seasons was there such a section in the credits. I assume these were the people who worked on Winx Club Online at that time.


And fun fact: it seems Tecna used Mozilla Firefox browser on Earth Also, the menu bar resembles macOS

[CrystalRose]

This is obviously not a merch , but here is Gardenia Park mention in Season 4.
Of course, it's no surprise that it was there, but let's take another look.

Episode 4x16 A virtual world (does anyone remember if it was mentioned in any other episodes?)












I also find it quite interesting that the credits in Season 4 used to have a section called "Online Department". Neither in the previous nor in the following seasons was there such a section in the credits. I assume these were the people who worked on Winx Club Online at that time.


And fun fact: it seems Tecna used Mozilla Firefox browser on Earth Also, the menu bar resembles macOS

Why did I never know this? I can't remember it, but this is so cool

[CrystalRose]

This is obviously not a merch , but here is Gardenia Park mention in Season 4.
Of course, it's no surprise that it was there, but let's take another look.

Episode 4x16 A virtual world (does anyone remember if it was mentioned in any other episodes?)












I also find it quite interesting that the credits in Season 4 used to have a section called "Online Department". Neither in the previous nor in the following seasons was there such a section in the credits. I assume these were the people who worked on Winx Club Online at that time.


And fun fact: it seems Tecna used Mozilla Firefox browser on Earth Also, the menu bar resembles macOS

Why did I never know this? I can't remember it, but this is so cool

[korolyova]

natie you're really Tecna you have found SOOO much

[juleic1123]

True! Natie is really ensuring this website will have all lost media that was lost!

Also, kinda sad but Blumasik_Simpotyasik gave us a scanned version of the Gardenia Park Winx and hasn't been here in ages, I hope they saw the huge changes the website got using their scanned image