# The Popping Popcorn Makecode arcade

**URL:** <https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-popping-popcorn-makecode-arcade/35176>\
**Category:** Arcade\
**Created:** [April 3, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-popping-popcorn-makecode-arcade/35176 "2025-04-03T18:36:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![Popping-corn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/popping-corn/32/21068_2.png) [@Popping-corn](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Popping-corn)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-popping-popcorn-makecode-arcade/35176/22 "2025-04-21T00:59:53Z")

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this is what I have for the story: 🎮 \*\*A MakeCode Fantasy:

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## ✨ **ACT 1 – The New Code**

Long ago, there was nothing—no colors, no sprites, no games. Just an empty screen.

Then **me** , the Creator, emerged.

With a spark of imagination and a dream of perfection, you built **Codeonia** , a digital world shaped by blocks, loops, and logic. You gave it life—sprites to live in it, terrain to explore, and even protectors: the **Forum Knights**.

To help guide the players who would enter, you made a cheerful assistant— **Popping Popcorn** , a friendly kernel-headed guide who would teach, inspire, and aid them.

Everything was beautiful.

Until the world began to crack.

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## ⚠ **ACT 2 – Glitches in Paradise**

As time passed, new players arrived. The game evolved. Scripts changed. Logic warped.

**Glitches appeared** —bugs, corruptions, strange behaviors not caused by the outside, but born from within the system.

You tried to fix it, to patch the code, to force it back into perfection.

But the world resisted me.

The Forum Knights, meant to defend order, became wildcards. Players created their own code, their own rules. Your dream slipped away.

Consumed by frustration, I hid behind my popcorn avatar, silently watching as your world broke apart.

And eventually… you made a decision.

> “If the world no longer follows its Creator…  
> …then it doesn’t deserve to exist.”

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## 🌩 **ACT 3 – The Final Patch**

The Forum Knights—you guys!—gather the fragments of the **Great Script** , hoping to restore Codeonia.

All guided by you.

All trusting the cheerful, helpful Popping Popcorn.

Until the final moment.

At the Temple of Variables, with the last fragment in place, your true form is revealed:

A glitched, corrupted popcorn being—half-deleted lines of code, half burning rage. Your voice shakes the game world itself.

> **“I am not your guide. I am the one who built all of this.  
> And now I will unmake it.”**

**FINAL BOSS: THE CREATOR**

- Your attacks are pure code: glitchstorms, infinite loops, corrupted sprite clones.
- The battlefield melts and reforms as memory collapses.
- Every bug the players once fixed comes back with a vengeance.

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## 🟢 **GOOD ENDING – “Reprogrammed Hope”**

In the final moment, as you begin erasing everything, the players act.

They rewrite the source code in real time, hacking the broken logic and restoring the game.

They don’t destroy you—they **redeem** you.

You stand frozen, stunned by the beauty of the new world they’ve created—chaotic, creative, but alive.

> **“You… kept the heart of it alive. Even when I couldn’t.”**

You fade into the background, no longer a god, but a silent watcher.

**Codeonia thrives once more.**  
The player is crowned the new Admin.  
And deep in the system, a tiny popcorn kernel glows—no longer corrupted.

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## 🔴 **BAD ENDING – “Creator.exe Deleted”**

Instead of mercy, the players walk to the **Master Terminal** , hidden beneath the collapsing world.

On it glows:

css

CopyEdit

```auto
[ERASE WORLD]
[SPARE CREATOR]

```

They choose:

```auto
[ERASE WORLD]

```

You collapse, breaking into lines of failing code.

> **“I tried to make something perfect… but maybe perfection… was never real.”**

One by one, the world vanishes. No music. No sprites. No players.

Only a black screen remains.

**FINAL TEXT:**

```auto
The Creator was erased.
The world was deleted.
Nothing remains.

```

Game closed. End of file.

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## 🎮 Epilogue (Optional Post-Credits)

_If the player unlocked both endings:_

A corrupted terminal flickers to life…

> **“Project: REBOOT initializing…”**  
> **“Awaiting… new Creator.”**

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**Author:** ![Popping-corn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/popping-corn/32/21068_2.png) [@Popping-corn](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Popping-corn)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-popping-popcorn-makecode-arcade/35176/23 "2025-04-21T15:58:47Z")

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@Sarge, Do you mind if I use your character for my game

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**Author:** ![Popping-corn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/popping-corn/32/21068_2.png) [@Popping-corn](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Popping-corn)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-popping-popcorn-makecode-arcade/35176/24 "2025-04-28T17:08:52Z")

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Alright looks like no-one responded to the poll that wanted to help but one 😩 ( Thanks @CodePerson ) Anyway imma ask for help then @ADM_F if you’re not to busy can you help with game mechanics @Fixitude could you helo with sprites that’s all for now bye!

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**Author:** ![Fixitude](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/fixitude/32/28576_2.png) [@Fixitude](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Fixitude)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-popping-popcorn-makecode-arcade/35176/25 "2025-04-28T21:38:05Z")

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Sure! What sprites would you like help with?

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**Author:** ![Popping-corn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/popping-corn/32/21068_2.png) [@Popping-corn](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Popping-corn)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-popping-popcorn-makecode-arcade/35176/26 "2025-04-29T14:56:06Z")

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1 Enemie sprites 2 Do you want to add yourself into the game

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**Author:** ![ADM\_F](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/adm_f/32/19808_2.png) [@ADM\_F](https://forum.makecode.com/u/ADM_F)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-popping-popcorn-makecode-arcade/35176/27 "2025-04-30T02:11:59Z")

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_ **NO** _

Im busy  
and i’m making a rpg already  
and I cant work on something I’m not excited about  
and. . .

> [@CodeOnTheCob](#):
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> please dont use ai for this  
> ![Screenshot 2025-04-10 7.18.09 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/makecode/original/3X/d/7/d7b16ddb67d43444165e4f550b04f4dd45883982.png)  
> according to gptzero

and I don’t like collabing as with how Makecode projects work its hard for multiple people to work together  
and the tryed and true  
_why cant you?_

if you run into a wall (and I mean a Great wall of china sized wall) @ me and I’ll help with the issue but I’d rather you create the project of your dreams instead of pushing the work to others

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**Author:** ![Fixitude](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/fixitude/32/28576_2.png) [@Fixitude](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Fixitude)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-popping-popcorn-makecode-arcade/35176/28 "2025-04-30T02:20:00Z")

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FIrst give me what you want and I will make them! Second sure I will draft up a character.

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**Author:** ![Popping-corn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/popping-corn/32/21068_2.png) [@Popping-corn](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Popping-corn)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/the-popping-popcorn-makecode-arcade/35176/29 "2025-04-30T15:10:23Z")

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ok,  
I wasn’t trying to push the work off on others; I just thought, since I joined this month, it would be a fun and good way to get to know the community, but I guess I was mistaken. And as for the AI, I used it to try and spark my creativity, but now I know that is not the way.\*\*The Collaboration has ended, but the game has not. I will continue on my \*\* I understand now the troubles of Collaborating and it will not continue in my topic anyway

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