Lane Merrifield
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I play no role in it.
But it was certainly an interesting conversation, what it would be like today if we were still in the game.
Well, here's the thing I will take credit for.
Listen, there's a lot of great games and a lot of really cool things happening back then.
And we were inspired by a lot of what others were doing.
The one thing that I will take credit for was we had a firm belief that our universe, this universe of Club Penguin should always be interconnected.
And so some of the patents that I'm most proud of filing are patents that we filed around how to connect books into a digital world, physical books into a digital world, magazines into a digital world, some of which you could use codes for, which were easy, but you couldn't always put a code with everything.
And so if you bought a Club Penguin plushie or a stuffy or a toy, everything we sold had an unlock.
And so you're either unlocking that exact outfit or unlocking coins or something in the world.
If you got to a certain level in a game, we had like DS games and back then Nintendo Wii games on other platforms.
if you got to a point in that game, we were sending a code back to our servers to tell our servers that you had reached a certain point in this level.
And so you should have access to, let's say, like if you found out about the spy agency.
Now in the web version, you now had access to that same spy agency.
And now that stuff, people call it transmedia or cloud entertainment or whatever.
All of that's a little bit more common.
It's still somewhat novel, but it's a bit more common.
But back then...
You know, again, I remember in meetings, being in meetings with Nintendo, being in meetings, they're like, no, you know, we don't send data back to servers for any reason.
We had to get special permission to say, well, here's why, because we think it's going to be so magical for a kid when they log in to be like, hey, you've been recruited by the spy agency.
And for a kid to be like, how do they know I was playing on my Nintendo DS on the way to school on the bus?
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