Coins for Change 2012

Many people have asked "What is your favourite party, game, or feature of Club Penguin?"

Coins for Change! Every year millions kids from around the world to donate billions of their hard earned virtual coins to three different causes. These causes include health, education, and the environment. Based on the kids virtual donations, Club Penguin donates $1 Million dollars to help kids around the world. Over the past 6 years Coins for Change has donated more than $8 Million dollars and changed the lives of more than 250,000 children.

Why Penguins?

Why penguins? The answer usually surprises people. I needed a simple character that I could animate for an experimental project. Looking around my desk, I saw an old Far Side comic that I clipped from a newspaper. This comic showed a penguin slipping on a banana peel. The idea for a waddling penguin with a white background was born.

Club Penguin!

Well Penguins! It's been 5 years since the first Penguin Chat. Ever since we launched the first Penguin Chat, I have had a dream to create a safe, virtual world where children can play games,have fun and interact. Now we are very proud to announce the release of Club Penguin.

Each player chooses a penguin, gives it an identity and explores Club Penguin, interacting with other penguins by chatting, text messaging, playing games, sending greeting cards, or using emotes (emotion icons) and actions (ie. wave, dance, sit, walk or throw a snowball).

By helping other participants and playing games, players earn virtual coins that allow them to buy clothing and accessories for their penguin or furniture for their igloo.

Enjoy!

Please visit the new Club Penguin website for all the latest news. http://www.clubpenguin.com/

Please Note: Penguin Chat 3 will go offline on Friday, October 28.

Club Penguin - Lots of questions, lots of answers

Hello Penguins! I have received lots of questions about Club Penguin (formally called the BIG Update). So here's lots of answers. Why did I not get accepted for the Club Penguin Beta Test? Sadly, almost 200 people do not have working email addresses, or they misspelled their email address on the Beta Test application.

When will Club Penguin be released? When all the big bugs have been fixed. We cannot release Club Penguin until it is stable.

Where is the Pet Shop? The pet shop is not ready, honestly we do not have enough pets right now. You can buy pets from the catalogues. The catalogues can be found in your igloo or the shop.

Can you get pets other than goldfish? More pets coming soon.

Why are there so many bugs? Tough question. We are using an all new server system, this allows the chat to work faster and allow more penguins to visit the word. We are working to fix them.

Can you block unwanted people from your igloo? Yes, add the player to your ignore list. Click the player's penguin and press Ignore.

Can you turn on the television? Soon, we are working on the animations right now.

What is the Canadian flag icon for? We are currently working on flags for your penguins. The flags will appear on your player card.

Where is the ninja? That is a secret that can not be revealed until we launch. There will be a ninjas, but it will be more difficult to become a ninja and will involve the secret room. For now, just make your penguin black and pretend.