The Popping Popcorn Makecode arcade

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


:sparkles: 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.


:warning: 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.”


:cloud_with_lightning: 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.

:green_circle: 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.


:red_circle: BAD ENDING – “Creator.exe Deleted”

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

On it glows:

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[ ERASE WORLD ]
[ SPARE CREATOR ]

They choose:

[ 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:

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

Game closed. End of file.


:video_game: Epilogue (Optional Post-Credits)

If the player unlocked both endings:

A corrupted terminal flickers to life…

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

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

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Alright looks like no-one responded to the poll that wanted to help but one :weary_face: ( 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!

Sure! What sprites would you like help with?

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

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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. . .

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

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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