WA, Gardenia Park: Early Plans & Concepts

[thebleudream]

Is there a reason why specialists are not brought back in the new WA?

[juleic1123]

For now, it's mainly the process it involves to have two different bodies and the clothes. Making clothes so far has been the hardest. We barely have any items and most of them still aren't rigged perfectly. But I do intend on hiring someone once I find a job to help out with not only adding specialists but also creating more clothes in a more profissional way.

[thebleudream]

For now, it's mainly the process it involves to have two different bodies and the clothes. Making clothes so far has been the hardest. We barely have any items and most of them still aren't rigged perfectly. But I do intend on hiring someone once I find a job to help out with not only adding specialists but also creating more clothes in a more profissional way.

I think it's beautiful that you want to make the game more than it was before and I thank you for that. Can't wait to hear more about it and to see your vision for the future.

[natie]

I love that you found that blog, because it's very, very complete. It's the one I follow since 2010!

I think I saved this image from some other blog, but I ended up in the blog mentioned in the picture. Who would've thought these old materials in the blogs would turn out to be that important after all these years!

I have A LOT to say about this!

I digged so hard and so much for Winx Adventure especially. So it's great to have this topic.

So, first things first:

Specialists in Winx Adventure were supposed to return. They promised and mentioned it a few times on the news between September-December 2010 themselves after the beta closed and the official silently removed them. My guess is that with Garden of Charmix and future plans they had for the game, specialists just became something that would give them headaches and they knew they had to disappear from the game in order to have room to create these new game modes.

Still, there is a LOT of hidden things that Winx Adventure had in store that never saw the light of day:

- Dance movements and light sprites is one of them. Both the male and female avatars have 3 spots for 3 different dances on Winx Adventure that never saw the light of day, this combined with the fact we see the Disco Planet building when the game was launching leads me to believe the disco was going to be part of the game, but they scrapped it.

Rainbow also released an article about Winx Adventure on their own website back in September or November 2010 at the time, with a lot of info that never came to be AND THINGS WRONG:


- It says the game was around since September 2009 but it's been since September 2010. Also, the developers started working on Winx Adventure in June of that same year. Unless they merged Gardenia Park, which was available in September 2009, this seems like a lie.

- The bank is a lie, unless they meant the inventories and the decorator in-game?

- the choose between specialist and fairy, which by the time this article came out was already 1-3 months after beta ended and specialists were removed.

- Beauty shop on the promotional image of this article is completely different from the version in-game.

- We also see the winx rooms' in Love&Pet which never came to be.

- We also had "a lot" of events planned from september to december promised two weeks after the game released, but only Hallowinx came to be. (Unless you count my best room contest in the forum, then I guess 2? )

- When Gardenia changed in July 2011, they temporarily released ALL FEATURES, but they couldn't be clicked. Some users even had a picture taken of all the menu options available. They went back and locked them again, promising they'd all be available one day. (And we know how that turned out )

- Pets were teased in the Hallowinx event in 2011, but nothing about pets ever came back or was talked about prior and after the event.

- Garden of Charmix was supposed to have multiple chapters and had A LOT of things planned, including more transformations, but the game closed before any of the updates or other chapters was released, ultimately becoming one of the biggest marketing lies back then.

So many hidden things!
Believe me or not I never noticed that they show Planet Disco and other buildings during the loading screen!

I thought picture with Beauty Shop in the article is just some screenshot from the series? Looks like I need to refresh my memory on what Gardenia looked like in the game.
Also, is there any building in the game that looks like a bank? However, that bank feature from the article sounds a bit too ambitious to me. I don't remember similar "banks" in other games... If it weren't for the phrase "where possessions can be kept safely", I'd think it was talking about buying RC coins or something like that. Maybe their copywriter made something up?

[natie]

As promised, here's all the unused emotions used for Garden of Charmix and Winx Adventure.

Note: clapping, bow and dances for both specialists and fairies were in the emotions folder, so we can assume they were going to be extensions that got deleted.

All other animations like jump, lookaround, pickup were from the garden of charmix folder, which is very interesting to have a random specialist version of pickup.

Thank you very much for the video
But these dance movements... they cracked me up
It's a pity they didn't add jumping to the game!

[juleic1123]

I thought picture with Beauty Shop in the article is just some screenshot from the series? Looks like I need to refresh my memory on what Gardenia looked like in the game.
Also, is there any building in the game that looks like a bank? However, that bank feature from the article sounds a bit too ambitious to me. I don't remember similar "banks" in other games... If it weren't for the phrase "where possessions can be kept safely", I'd think it was talking about buying RC coins or something like that. Maybe their copywriter made something up?

Believe it or not, the first Gardenia (which is also the one we're using) is very special because it's an identical copy of the season 4 one (except on the fountain part). I think they straight up snatched it from season 4's city model, while the July 2011 version was a watered down version (that still does resemble the specials a bit more).

So the buildings and the sprites, I 100% believe they're low rendered versions of the actual assets they used for the season itself, since if you try to compare, you see it's the same as the show.

As for the Beauty Shop, it does look like a screenshot from the series, but on the series, I think it's either empty or "The Mall" and not "Fashion Store", but I can't find an episode that shows the building directly. I was looking for it just now.

[WinxClub4Life]

Hey,so I don't know if this fits topic but I found a trailer for Winx Adventure from around 2011! I never saw it before so this might be rare or lost media!