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Muppy Muddington Tale




5 years ago

The four stages of King Dark Muddington.


Dark Muddington is probably my most interesting character.

While Muppy has been in the works since I was 9 years old(I'm currently 17) Dark has rarely been conceptualized until I made my last game. He was originally part of a canned game involving jelly beans and zombies, where he tricked Muppy into setting out a virus. Since then I wanted a way to use the character but wasn't sure on a design. So I made a bunch.

Since then, he's become one of the most inconsistent characters, even during the development of the last game. He was just some dude in a cave that gave Muppy a wish(an idea replaced by a character called Todd who I'll reveal in the next post). Before eventually becoming Muppy's brother close to the final version of the last game.

He was originally also called King Muddington before being renamed Dark, and then merging the two together for story.

While the game series is about Muppy mostly, I've loved the concept of using the main character to set up the other characters and help them, and Dark allows me to do that perfectly.

Major spoilers ahead for at least 3 games in the series, if you don't want some events spoiled, do not continue reading past the line.

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So, let me explain the idea now. After an event called the big split, where half of all rabbits were able to enter a parallel universe where they could live as they pleased; Dark experienced a lot of childhood trauma on account of being heavily bullied as a kid, and he grew up a jerk. He then made a deal with a green rabbit bandit(Todd) that if Dark could take over the world, he would have actual friends because he was so lonely(cue the events of a planned spinoff and Muppy The Bunny: The Danger of Wishes).

During this game(which takes place after the ending where you revive Dark in the last game) you have to help him redeem himself for the terrible acts he caused, while also balancing Todd who is trying to manipulate him and Muppy to turn against each other throughout the game.

And the 4th and final "stage" of Dark I consider is the part 2 side of him, which I can't explain at all without spoiling literally the whole story.

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