Weekly Penguin

Weekly Penguin 790

A very special Weekly Penguin. For no reason really, other than it being timely here in TAGAP land.

Behold, the original designs of Pablo!

If you've followed TAGAP for a while, you know the story of the project came together. But the TLDR of it is that originally the game that became TAGAP, started as something completely different. However, further it went, more it transformed, to the point I scrapped virtually everything but the art design of the protagonist.

These are the pencil doodles from of that transition process – ideating on turning the space-ace Birdseed into gun-wielding battle penguin Pablo. I thought these were lost for good, before launch of the original TAGAP even. I had the final revisions and the stuff that came before, but the originals were missing. However, I re-discovered them in 2020 whilst I was inventorying my household.

Right now I'm scanning and cleaning them for TAGAP 4 bonus features galleries. We've had similar 'origins of TAGAP' galleries in the past games, but this time I have more stuff to showcase. Even the old stuff is also being re-scanned and cleaned up for the TAGAP 4's 'HD experience'.

Added: 2022-10-11