My Singing Monsters

My Singing Monsters

Developer: Big Blue Bubble
Publisher: Big Blue Bubble
Platforms: iOS, Android, PlayStation Vita, Windows
Released internationally: September 3, 2012 (iOS), October 17, 2012 (Android), August 12, 2014 (PS Vita), September 6, 2013 (Big Fish Windows), March 24, 2021 (Steam Windows)

This game has unused animations.
This game has unused graphics.
This game has unused items.
This game has unused sounds.
This game has unused text.
This game has debugging material.
This game has revisional differences.

This game has a prototype article

This game has a prerelease article

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There's debugging scripts and functions; enable them if possible.
All the seasonals on the Colossingum have 2 unused note animations (only 1 for Blabbit) that were later reused in My Singing Monsters Composer. Document these.

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My Singing Monsters is a mobile game that's exactly what the name suggests. The game became a hit, being nominated for several awards and even getting a prequel.

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Prototype Info

Prerelease Info

Unused Sounds
Let's start by buying a Noggin egg.

Unused Text
I'm green.

Unused Graphics
Many unused graphics.

Revisional Differences
Let's take a blast to the past!

Codenames
There aren't a lot of monsters, but there's lots of other stuff.

Unused Monsters

ABC

ABC was an early version of Reedling. Its design consists of 3 flowers with big mouths, and it seems it would've taken up 1x2 spaces. It was likely a vocal monster. Its name of "ABC" is an obvious placeholder name, being the codename of its elements; whether it ever had an actual name is unknown.

PongPing

PongPing was a monster that was meant to take the place of Shellbeat. It appeared from versions 1.0.0 to 1.0.2. It had text for its name and description, with its description being the same as Floot Fly's ("I'm green"). Its exact design is currently unknown, as its portrait is just a blank portrait with the text "ABCD" slapped onto it. During a Handler Hangout in the Ockulo Grove Discord, it was described as a gangly monster with a central spherical body, 2 arms holding ping pong paddles and some splayed toed feet at the bottom.

The monster was later added back to the game as a Fire Monster on Amber Island. It also appeared in the prequel on the same day as the monster was added to Amber Island.

Floot Fly

Floot Fly was an early version of Quarrister, which appeared from versions 1.0.0 to 1.0.4. It only had text for it and a breeding icon. BBB revealed its full design in a twitter post to tease at it being added back to the game with the release of Faerie Island.

Mimic

A scrapped 5-element monster from Version 1.0.4 that didn't have any sprites in-game, but had its name and a description in the text file. Its description read as follows:

The Mimic monster is an extremely unique monster among the rabble. They have three legs and they are surrounded by mysterious atmosphere. They contain luminous substance, so when they is danger, those substance lightens up to protect Mimic.

In the Extra Life stream Big Blue Bubble did on Twitch, they showed the Mimic's design and explained its intended purpose: You would've been able to record your own voice and the Mimic would play the recording. The function was reused for the Recording Studio, while a bit of its design was reused for the Rare Clamble.

In the monster_data.xml file in the root, there is code relating to the max coins, coins per minute, and the amount food required to level up Mimic. The file refers to Mimic as "Secret Quint Element" and also includes a link to a meme website. Big Blue Bubble probably added this part to monster_data.xml to fool people looking into their game. There is also some other stuff relating to Mimic, like the amount of xp you would gain by placing Mimic (357143), Mimic's size (1x1), the amount of diamonds it would cost (250), and the time it would take in the breeding structure or nursery (48 Hours).

Level	Max Coins	Coins per Minute	Food Required to feed once	Food Required to level up
1	43200	15	20	80
2	69120	24	40	160
3	103680	36	80	320
4	138240	48	160	640
5	172800	60	320	1,280
6	207360	72	640	2,560
7	241920	84	1,280	5,120
8	276480	96	2,560	10,240
9	311040	108	5,120	20,480
10	345600	120	10,240	40,960
11	380160	132	20,480	81,920
12	414720	144	40,960	163,840
13	449280	156	81,920	245,760
14	483840	168	163,840	368,640
15	518400	180	245,760	552,960
16	544320	189	368,640	829,440
17	566092	196	552,960	1,244,160
18	583075	202	829,440	1,866,240
19	594737	206	1,244,160	4,976,640
20	600684	208	1,866,240	7,464,960

Nonexistent Sprites

There are some references to sprites that never appear in the game files.

Missing Monster Parts

Maw's Mouths 8 and 9 and Body 2

There are two missing mouth sprites and one missing body sprite belonging to Maw. In the behind-the-scenes video of My Singing Monsters from 2012, there is an early Maw sleeping animation that has two never-before-seen mouths and one never-before-seen body, so it is assumed those are the missing sprites.

Early Thrumble Feet

There are references to 2 early versions of Thrumble's feet in its animation file, called CDN_adult_left_foot and CDN_adult_right_foot. The used feet go under the same name except with _HEEL at the end. These feet sprites were most likely based off the ones from Dawn of Fire, which didn't have heels.

Early Floot Fly Head

In Floot Fly's animation file, there is a reference to an early head sprite simply called "head". Considering the final head sprite is called "head_hairy", this early head most likely didn't have any fur, like the original concept.

Broken Wimmzies Shadow

In the Wimmzies' animation, there is a reference to an early shadow named "shadow". The final shadow is named "shadow_fixed", meaning this shadow was probably broken.

Broken Maw Body

In Maw's animation, the body is named "DE_body_FIX", instead of just "DE_body", meaning that the body was probably broken.

Missing Decoration Parts

Trees 1 and 8

The codenames for the tree decorations are missing IDs 1 and 8.

Fallen Tree 1

The codename of the Hollow Log decoration is "fallentree2", indicating that there was a second fallen tree decoration.

Metal Stuff 2 to 5

The codenames for the Bottomless Pit and Toob are metalstuff01 and metalstuff06 respectively, with a large 4-ID-long gap in between.

Unused Animations

Oaktopus (Shugabush Island)

Oaktopus has an unused alternate idle animation called "01-BD_Dance_01" in which it looks at the birds nest on its head. This is unused due to a bug in the midi where the notes for Oaktopus' idle animation are too low down, causing its idle animation to default to the animation called "Idle". This can be seen in game by moving these notes up.

Ghazt (Composer Island)

The monster Ghazt has unused animations and sounds for Composer Island. These animations were later used in My Singing Monsters: Composer.

Kayna (Fire Oasis)

An unused animation for Kayna's second track on Fire Oasis. For whatever reason, the game uses the first track instead of the second one.

Glowbe

Glowbes have an unused muted animation.

Enhanced Breeding Structure

The Enhanced Breeding Structure has an unused animation for being unlocked named "structure_breeding_activate".

Early Test Furcorn Animations

In the animation files for Reedling, Shellbeat, Quarrister, and Mimic before they actually had animations were placeholder animations for Furcorn that were likely made early in development. You can't view them in the current version of the game, as they crash the game due to bin files changing in some version after 1.3.0, but they can be viewed in older versions of the game. The names of each animation are:

TESTbudd_dance00
TESTbudd_dance01
TESTbudd_dance02
TESTbudd_voice03
TESTbudd_voice05
TESTbudd_voice07
TESTbudd_voice09
TESTbudd_voice11
TESTbudd_voice12
TESTbudd_voice15
TESTbudd_voice16

Unused Colossingum Moves

There are some unused Colossingum moves that can be found in the files.

Ode to Joy

A sequence that is a rendition of the song Ode to Joy.

Sequence01

A short test sequence.

Freezy Chill

In the menu files battle_training_complete_popup.xml and battle_training_popup.xml are placeholder text strings for an unused cold move called "Freezy Chill". There is nothing known about this move besides the name and element.

Unused GUI

admin_store.xml

An alternate version of the market meant for admins.

empty.xml

This file is what the title of it says: just a blank GUI template.

hud_admin.xml

A short menu file that links to template_admin_panel.xml.

template_admin_panel.xml

An admin panel with a header saying "ADMIN PANEL" and three options: BBB_Id Entry, SupportID Entry, and Web Tool. This admin panel could be seen in the Fire Oasis reveal episode of My Singing Monsters Live. Each of the buttons on it uses Bowgart's egg as an icon. There is a gap between BBB_Id Entry and SupportID Entry, meaning that there might have once been a fourth button in between those two. BBB_Id Entry is possibly for delivering items to users' mailboxes, while SupportID Entry is possibly for restoring users' lost accounts, and the function of Web Tool is currently unknown.

template_admin_view_panel.xml

This seems to be a way to switch between islands quickly and to delete them. Each of the buttons uses Deedge's egg as an icon. The code for it says that the panel will only appear if the player has more than one island. Its look is currently unknown, but a mockup can be seen below.

template_admin_goalcontrols.xml

This was probably used to auto-complete goals.

test_select_egg.xml

When opening this menu, it brings up the old Book of Monsters.

Oddities

Ziggurab's Book of Monsters Design

For some reason, Ziggurab's entry in the Book of Monsters uses its Dawn of Fire design instead of its design from My Singing Monsters. This may have been used as a placeholder for its icon during testing and accidentally left in.

Ziggurab's Book of Monsters design	Dawn of Fire design	My Singing Monsters design

T-Rox's Element

In the names for T-Rox's sprites, the element letter for it is C (the letter for Earth) instead of CDE.

Meet the Monsters Early Monster Bios

Early Mammott Bio

In the Mammott image, the bio starts off with "A Mammott's" instead of "Mammotts'".

Early Furcorn Bio and Element

The Furcorn image uses plural words in the bio, and uses the word "and" before "delicate" instead of a comma. An image of Furcorn from the press release (seen below) shows it having only the Plant element.

Early Maw Bio

The Maw image is missing "Maws are a little mouthy. Tonguey too."

Early T-Rox Bio

For T-Rox, the word "spikelets" was originally "spines".

Rare Oaktopus Nest

Oaktopus' nest from Shugabush Island has "_RARE" at the end of its sprite name, indicating it was originally planned to be part of Rare Oaktopus.

Screemu Being Made Before Zuuker

The names of Screemu's sprites called it U06, indicating that it was made before Zuuker.

Early Bone Island Toe Jammer Animation

The animation for Rare Toe Jammer and Epic Toe Jammer on Bone Island were an early version of the Bone Island Toe Jammer animation when they first released. The animation is very incomplete, being very stiff and not being as smooth. The most noticeable difference is Toe Jammer standing on its toes, when in the final animation it stays on the ground, instead crouching down. This was fixed shortly after their release.

Early Fire Oasis Whaddle Animation

The rare and epic variants of Whaddle also use a seemingly early version of Whaddle's animation on Fire Oasis. The animation is almost identical to the final version, except there's a hop at the end of the first tracks animation. This has not yet been fixed.