Toontown Rewritten Cartoonival

Toontown Rewritten: Cartoonival 2023

Team Size

Project Duration

5 Months

Engine

Panda3D

Platforms

The Cartoonival is Toontown's biggest party hosted every year on Toontown Rewritten! Cartoonival is the time of year where we get to celebrate all things Toontown! The 2023 event was extra special, because it was the 10 year anniversary of Toontown Rewritten.

My Responsibilities:

Lead weekly meetings with the different cross functional teams, ensuring alignment and movement towards key deliverables.
Broke down features into manageable tasks, managing the backlog and assigning tasks to team members.
Utilized Notion to create a easy to read hub of current sprint tasks, including a clear view of task dependencies.
Collaborated with department leads on project vision, scope, and best approaches for achieving milestones.
Manages project scope and feature creep, ensuring additional followed the design pillars, and determining whether content would need to be cut.
Acted as the point of contact for stakeholders, leads, and the community regarding the project.
Developed reports and scope sheets for tracking specific features progress.

The Cartoonival Cavalcade!

Feature Summary:

We wanted Cartoonival for the 10th year anniversary of Toontown Rewritten to feel like a party. With that, we came up with the idea of having a parade centered around a massive parade float, The Cartoonival Cavalcade! Every half-past hour during the Cartoonival event, a random street is chosen for the Cavalcade to spawn.

At the front of the parade is Riggy Marole in his signature kart. Players are encouraged to join the parade with four spaces Infront of and behind the cavalcade where players can jump into their personally customized racing kart.

For those players who are not helping push the parade with their karts, there is still the option to interact with the float itself. The Cavalcade has multiple unlit candles on its base, and walking up to the float itself gives players the ability to throw birthday cakes outside of combat. Hitting the candles with the cakes will cause them to light up, and slowly fizzle out.

Helping Riggy pull the float, and keeping the candles lit increases the likelihood that rewards will come shooting out of the float. These rewards could be Jellybeans for items in game, Racing Tickets to customize your kart, Cartoonival Tokens which can be used in the event store, and Silly Points for unlocking game wide buffs like double exp or decreased fish rarity.

Key Requirements:

We needed the parade to be interactable with multiple ways to contribute.
- To accomplish this we had multiple different minigames and ideas, and picked the ones that worked best during playtesting, with others being scraped due to time or there being too many issues to get it working properly.
We wanted a way for players to spend Cartoonival around Toontown, and not only at the Cartoonival grounds.
- This is how we came up with the parade being on random streets, which would have players leave the Cartoonival Grounds to make it to the parade and hand out playing games with many other players.
We needed to incentivize players to actually go to the parade.
- This is where the parade rewards come in. We needed the rewards to be worth leaving the Grounds or current activity for. To accomplish that we provided an area of effect for different currencies in the game, from Racing Tickets, which would give players extra incentive to race at Goofy's Speedway, or customize their Kart so they can show it off in the parade, or Cartoonival Tokens, which players are trying to get as much of as they can during the event to buy the event cosmetics.
We needed the parade to be a celebration of Toontown, both in its design and functionality.
- It was important for the parade to be a celebration of Toontown and the 10 year anniversary of Rewritten. So we included some of our famous Toontown characters, and NPCs to be on the top level of the float. We had our amazing Writing team create back and forth dialogue between the VIPs and Riggy, making the whole parade feel like an event of characters interacting with each other from all across Toontown.
- This also leads into the rewards system for the float, giving players currencies for different activities to celebrate all that you can do in the game. Also providing a spot to show off your custom karts, which you used to only be able to show off at the Goofy's Speedway playground.

Token Tasks!

Feature Summary:

Every year during Cartoonival, we open up the Cartoonival Grounds. The area is always filled with tons of confetti, and surrounded by multiple tall trees and a mysterious mineshaft from the top of the mountain. Activities such as picnic games, trampolines, cannons, and the duck tank can be played at the area.

This year we included a major feature to the Cartoonival activities: Token Tasks!

Token Tasks are event specific quests given at the Cartoonival Grounds for players to complete for unique prizes and rewards. This year we worked on two specific tasks with two unique rewards.

The first was a story based task revolving around finding the Mayors Doodle, Fluffy. Taking players around Toontown, the quest would reward players with a Fluffy inspired backpack accessory, unique to the quest.

The second quest involved interacting with Cartoonival events and would reward players with a Token Unite. Allowing players to create and area of effect around them where all nearby players would receive Cartoonival Tokens to spend on event cosmetics. This provided players the ability to shower others with tokens. We were able to have our effects team create a outward splash effect of tokens, similar to the other unites already present in the game.