Nicktropolis Timewarp

2024 · FAN GAME

Greetings Time Traveler! Recent developments at the Nicktropolis Space Center have uncovered a wormhole deep in the fabric of space and time, and with the help of hundreds of Nickselfs and a realllly long ethernet cable, the bustling streets of Nicktropolis were siphoned to our day and age piece by piece! Yes, an open source rewrite of Nicktropolis, made from screen capture footage of the lost game, with server based multiplayer, finds its way to our nostalgic hearts. Experience a classic internet "third place", explore many new hangouts and customize your space! On March 9, 2010 the Nick.com MMO Nicktropolis was discontinued and closed to the public. The virtual world lost to time, to the horror of many of dedicated players. Millions of rooms, characters, fish and many friendships were lost overnight. Over the years there were some efforts to bring back Nicktropolis, and later to archive what was left, until 2017 when Nickelodeon closed access to the server that stored Nicktropolis's files. In 2023, an experimental recreation of Nicktropolis, made from cropping and manipulating screen shots and video footage, showed a lot of potential and became a frantic effort. A development build with a working multiplayer server, chat, and many rooms was released to a private discord server and a game-play video uploaded to Youtube. Over the course of that year the game was refined and many features added, with the goal of being as faithful to the original as possible. Users can add their own video files to play in the game, to replace the TurboNick CDN from the original game. Nickpoint blobs can be found throughout Nicktropolis locations, and you can spend them on items to customize your room. Ruffle.js, desmond emulator, and other amazing technology allows players to play flash games from the original Nicktropolis in browser. The remake includes the weekly treasure hunt, many preserved and recreated rooms, and node.js server based multiplayer to play with your friends and chat with the world-famous Nicktropolis chat safety filter.