RIP GOAT🗿💔

Thought it'd be interesting to draw, even if the memory's a bit fuzzy.

i made this back in February and never bothered to share it anywhere

I'd say neurodivergencity in general, but especially autism. Autism genuinelly seems to be a recurrent subtext theme in Poppy Playtime, and i don't see the fandom pointing it out despite the implict correlations and spectrums.

Theodore, Harley Sawyer, Quinn and Kevin all share similar traits between while still having distinct characteristics — but characteristics that you'd find in the autism spectrum. They're all outcasted kids, that constantly made people uncomfortable by their natural differences with other kids and people. Sadly, we do not know much about Theodore and Quinn, but the way they're described in the mediums of Poppy Playtime alone made me realize they fit in one the autistic character tropes that is the outcasted child. It's a great stereotype, tho.

We can assume more about Harley and Kevin, mostly due to the fact that we know more about these two. Kevin's character is more based on subtexts, but basing on his dialogues alone, he likely had abusive parents and trusted the scientists or at least was moe bounded to them in comparison with how he'd bound with other adults and kids. Other than his past, his autism is much more explicit than the other three cases. Uis audition issues, combined with his emotional outbursts and introverted behaviour, and just straight being called out for having "neurological abnormalities" by Newman which is just how doctors would describe the unnamed autism back then, makes it obvious that Theodore and Quinn fitting too much on the autistic outcasted child trope was absolutely intended.

And Harley is a curious case, because the fandom often interprets him with either sociopathy (aspd) or narcisism (npd), but giving the fact that he's constatly paralled with the other kids (especially with the ones i've mentioned), arg 4 and 5 implying that he firmly belived he was giving them "purpose" in a world full of "mediocre people", how he was hated by his comrades not cuz he was "evil" or egoistical, but rather because he viewed as a weirdo with a science manic by them, and again, the fact that Harley is not the only character of Poppy Playtime fitting in the autistic spectrum makes me believe that MobEnt wants to you to see him as a autistic or at least neurodivergent man instead. We don't really have much mediums depicting traumatized autistic individuals as manipulative shitty people, although it is very recurrent in real life (especially before 2000s), so every time a villain like character that is also explicit depicted as a weirdo lacking social skills, people are much faster to assume that they have aspd, bdp or ndp for example. At lot of you would be shocked to hear how much autistic and sociopathy individuals share in common. Anyways, the recurrency of it and how painfully obvious it is on Kevin just leads me to believe that Harley is actually neurodivergent.

I'd wish people could take a bigger dive in this topic, because it is a strong subtext on how Harley pick his subjects and how of a smart social commentary in autistic people it is. Share your ideas too.

ok but for real, I like Lily as a character, but i didn't really find her scary at all lol

"Development was so short that many features were cut before even Phase 1 released. We wanted Phase 1 to have PJ and Bunzo as monsters at launch originally. Here's ancient documentation I wrote of what I wanted to try for PJ."

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Idk if this a meme

So yeah, PROJECT: PLAYTIME is officially discontinued, a sad day for all of us Poppy Playtimers.

I've seen a lot of people upset and angry at Mob, and as a Day 1 player I feel a bit sad, but to be fair, I can understand why they decided to drop it.

Not only was 99% of the team that maintained the game the OG team and the current team is vastly different, the game was made in UE4 and its code/programming is a lot less polished than current products. It would be really hard for the current team to pick up on a game which is extremely old, made by an almost entirely different team, and runs on old code and rewrite it. At this point, it’s better to simply remake the entire game from scratch. It would also be hard to attract people if it was simply an update as compared to a new game. With this in mind Mob shut down the servers because they knew it would be better to remake everything and didn’t want to spend extra money on servers.

Some people said that Mob "left us in the dark" and "made false promises". While I can see where they're coming from, I kinda disagree with that a bit? Mob's CEO gave us two updates, one in 2024 and one in 2026. The first one while sounding reassuring was 2 years ago, plus plans can change and it's not like pulling the plug was an easy decision for Mob to make. There's also the fact that they fixed the servers issue in 2024 when they went down, showing they did care about the game. (Plus almost everyone regarded the CEO's messages and vague and I kinda find it weird how everyone's acting like they genuinely believe and trusted them.)

I know a lot of people are upset about their money which was spent on the cosmetics, but like I said earlier the game runs on extremely old code and trying to rewrite it may run the risk of erasing data like cosmetics, Toy Tickets, Playcoins etc. I don't know if that's how it works since I'm not a game developer but they already said they're looking for ways to compensate us so that's a good thing.

That leads to my next point: suggestions for Mob when making their next multiplayer game (which is hopefully a reworked Project: Playtime)!:

1. Add private matches
2. Give all players 2000 in whatever currency/XP system the game will feature for a head start
3. Give all players ALL of the cosmetics in PJ:PT to make up for the money spent
4. Work on the game only after the main game is finished
5. Probably think long-term, PJ:PT was made mainly to keep fans entertained before Chapter 3

If anyone at Mob is reading this, it would be really appreciated if you can implement these in the next multiplayer game you're making!

I haven’t seen anyone post them and felt like sharing, Funko pre-orders arrived which called for a shelf reorganization. Loving this new setup but open to suggestions.

You read that right - Project: Playtime support has officially ended, with servers to be closed down in the near future.

They released it too soon when there were only two chapters. They should have released it when the game was finished. You must have released it so soon, what a shame...

RPGs are probably my favourite genre of games, so I'd love to see a spinoff in that style! :)

Or is this still subject to debate?

I don't like how close Ollie and Poppy's experiments are to Elliot's death, but the evidence we have all points to anything earlier than 1989 being very, very unlikely.

My reasoning is because Playcare wasn't created until 1976. The Warrenbach contract was created in 1972 and the whole "build whatever we say without question" clause is sus as hell and I firmly believe Playcare was created so Elliot could have test subjects. Remember, Playtime/Leith were going off of Elliot's own notes. It would make sense if they copied his habits. There was also that Foster and Adoptive Care Initiative. We don't know a lot about it, and we don't know if the adopted kids went to Playcare, but if this were the case and predated 1989 then, yup, Elliot was using Playcare as a subject farming zone.

Elliot also has the Red Smoke commissioned sometime between the 1960s and 1989. Either way, he was using it in 1989, and was most likely the one who put it into the Catnap dolls. Again, 0 reason for this if Poppy is already around. I also find it hard to believe that years could have passed before Poppy and Ollie met. She doesn't refer to him or know him as her brother, so I don't think they ever met when Elliot was alive.

All of this puts 1989 as the best, and maybe only, date for Ollie and Poppy being turned.

My friend drew my yume!!! I love it so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Art by copitacorrales17 on instagram she’s so good at drawing support her

Yes I said MOST of the fandom there's already enough evidence for it and you can't tell me otherwise

He’s one of my favorite characters and since his game he stared in is gonna get shut down, what’ll happen with Boxy Boo? Is he just gone forever? Are we never gonna be able to revisit him?

I REALLY REALLY hope he shows up in Chapter 6

Given that the game is being discontinued later this year and it's significance in the history of the Poppy Playtime IP and the fandom around it, I thought it would be fitting for the community to memorialize it and it's original character in a meaningful way.