User:Slacky Slackereon/Sandbox/Purble Place Build 5219 Prototype

The earliest available known Purble Place prototype, included with Windows Vista Build 5219. It has a lot of differences compared to the final game. It doesn't work on Windows 7 and above, as clicking any of the buildings there does nothing and crashes the game. Interestingly enough, this prototype is actually compatible with Windows XP!

General Differences

Title Screen

Build 5219 Prototype	Final

• Purble Pairs is not available yet.
• The Red X sign was originally a yellow back arrow.
• The "Purble Place" text is not present yet.
• The buildings were moved more to the right in the final.
• The smoke from the Comfy Cakes building's chimneys is absent in the final.

Comfy Cakes

• You are unable to undo after you dispense a cake pan or batter.
• Intermediate Level has the same layout as the Final's Advanced, while the prototype's Advanced has rotating cakes, which was removed later on.
• The TV on the right does not count how many cakes are required/sent. Instead, the game's window counts them.

Build-a-Purble

• Since the Purbles do not have visible bodies, outfits are not available, and accessories are there in place.

Graphical Differences

Comfy Cakes

• The machine and cake textures have different art styles than from the final version.
• Chef Purble has a different look than from his final version.

Build 5219 Prototype	Final

• The background is slightly different compared to the final. The movement platform buttons were moved more to the right in the final, and there's a reflection of the buttons in the prototype. Interestingly, a Lemon Filling and an earlier smiley button texture can be seen on the reflection.

Purble Shop

• The Purbles, and features, are different from the final.

Build 5219 Prototype	Final

• The background is significantly different from the final. The floor tiles were red instead of pink, the lamps are bigger (and in a different artstyle), and the shelf is thicker on the top (and in a different artstyle, again).

Sound Differences

Comfy Cakes

Build 5219 Prototype	Final

• The sound for the conveyor belt is different, and dispensing sounds didn't exist yet.

Purble Shop

To do: Upload them, and do comparisons.

• The feature sounds are different.
• A sound (which would become one of the final version's Green Mouth sounds) would play when clicking on a feature.

Other Differences

Comfy Cakes

• The W and E key-binds for moving the cake weren't implemented yet.

Purble Family Oddity

Interestingly, an unseen minigame is documented in the help files, named "Purble Family". The gameplay would involve the player dragging family Purbles from the left side to their houses on the right side. Nothing for it is found in the game files, though.

Debug Menu

As with other prototypes of the pre-bundled Windows Vista builds, this build includes a debug menu.

Purble Shop

The only option that appears to work here is "Toggle Curtain", which toggles the visibility of the curtain.

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  Toggle Curtain in action

Comfy Cakes

None of the options shown here appear to work. Reload Variables might have been intended for what its name speaks, and Time Attack Mode might be a scrapped gamemode.

Unused Graphics

To do: See if there's more to find. XML files for the unused Purble Shop features exist, and can be read by the game. Try to hack them all back in.

Purble Shop

Features

There are graphics for unused Purble Shop features left in the spritesheets, one of which only has a shelf graphic. They were either intended as third available feature graphics, or early features.

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Shelf Features

Earlier versions of the green hair and yellow nose features, with an artstyle that's different from what the prototype itself uses.

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Leftover Yellow Hair PSD

Leftover .psd file of one of the yellow hair graphics.

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Comfy Cakes

Early Roasted Chocolate Icing

This appears to be an earlier version of the roasted chocolate icing, heart-shaped.

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Unused String

Practice Mode

A (possibly) scrapped game mode. It's unknown what minigame does this belong to.

Early Game Name

Found in Windows Vista Build 5219's Windows\Help\Windows\en-US\gamesh1S\games_inbox_new.xml is that the term "Purble Place" is not documented, but instead, "Learning Fun" is. This suggests that "Learning Fun" could be an early name for Purble Place. This is further supported by the fact that the help file for the prototype is "games_howto_learn_IT.xml".