I played Cruel 2B Kind with Ada, Isabelle, Marielle, and Nick – as well as a few friends we recruited. We played the game as penguins in a Club Penguin server and also used Zoom to communicate throughout the game.
Modified Rules
Before playing
- Make an account on https://play.cplegacy.com/
- Private message Ada Zhou your username on Zoom
- Join the “Blizzard” server and use the map to go to the Town
- Dress your penguin up
- Mute your music
Gameplay instructions
- At the start of the game, you are all 1-person teams
- When you attack a target team, you must participate in the attack together
attack the entire target team - If you both play the same weapon, turn around and run in the opposite direction. wait 30 sec before attacking another target.
- When a team is killed, it joins forces with the killers
- You and any teammate must stay together at all times. no splitting up, no working independently. the largest team(s) win at the end!
- After you get killed, type “rip” into the club penguin chat
- [In club penguin, you can only have a private conversation with someone if you are “buddies” – so it is easier for all communication to occur publicly]
- [In club penguin, you can only have a private conversation with someone if you are “buddies” – so it is easier for all communication to occur publicly]
- If you’re in a team with multiple people, the original “leader” of the team will attack, and the rest should follow/echo the leader.
Weapons
- Weapon A: wish your targets a happy made-up holiday
- Weapon B: compliment your targets’ penguin
- Weapon C:mistake your targets for celebrities
- A beats C
- C beats B
- B beats A
Reflection
Overall, the game was very fun! Playing on Club Penguin added some built-in absurdity, especially for action C (mistaking penguins for celebrities).
I liked how Club Penguin’s format allows you to see everyone’s messages at once:
This creates community and shared references amongst everyone playing. We all saw and laughed at this compliment, for example:
This also meant that strangers on the Club Penguin server could see every message that we were sending. Some copied us or asked what was going on. This stranger, Rocky, saw that we were saying “rip” and mentioning celebrities and joined in:
Being on zoom together allowed us all to communicate easily, so we decided to “love bomb” this stranger at the end of our game:
I also really liked the mod we added – where new team members have to copy their leader in future attacks. This created funny posses of penguins chanting the same thing:
Overall, I would definitely recommend Club Penguin Cruel2BKind – with a small caveat. The server seems to work poorly on certain computers. I experienced a lot of lag that made it difficult to tell who was attacking me at any given time, so I spent most of the game observing and enjoying everyone else’s attacks. A couple people also couldn’t see the bottom toolbar, which made it impossible to turn off the loud background music or jump to different locations on the map.
