My Singing Monsters Official Guide

My Singing Monsters Official Guide
Developer: Big Blue Bubble Publisher: Big Blue Bubble Platforms: iOS, Android Released internationally: June 21, 2017 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused sounds. This game has a development article

To do: Ghazt has leftover body backing sprites that were used in the canceled match 3 game Furcorn's Jelly Dreams. Many monsters in MSM have unused Spooktacle and Festival of Yay costume sprites.

My Singing Monsters Official Guide was an app designed to give players help in the My Singing Monsters games, such as breeding combinations or item recipes. The app was last updated in 2018, then discontinued in 2019 due to a change in Google Play's policies.

Despite simply being a guide app, it has quite a bit of unused content.

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Development Info

Unused Graphics

My Singing Monsters

Unused Island Skin Icons

Unused icons exist for the seasonal island skins, which use an early icon design with early borders.

Icon	Season
	Spooktacle Plant Island
	Festival of Yay Cold Island
	Season of Love Air Island
	Eggstravaganza Water Island
	Summersong Earth Island

Golden Egg

An image of a golden egg that can be found in the menu sprite sheet. This was confirmed to be an early version of Relics.

whatchawant_posed01

An unused image of Whajje, which was likely used as a placeholder for the monster. The name of this image reveals that Whajje's codename is "whatchawant".

G'joob and Yawstrich Sprites

The app had unused sprite sheets for the Mythical monsters G'joob and Yawstrich. When the app was last updated, these monsters hadn't yet been added to the mobile version of MSM, and as such were absent from the app.

Dark Shrubb Limbs

Before Rare Shrubb released, Shrubb's back leg and arm were originally shaded to be darker. This was changed with Rare Shrubb likely to save space in Shrubb's sprite sheet. However, the Guide still has these sprites in its files, in full HD.

Full Bowgart Cello

Before Rare Bowgart released, Bowgart's cello originally had the cello and strings combined into one sprite, but this was changed so that the strings could be used for the Rare's cello. These sprites still exist inside of the Guide, unused.

Early Rare PomPom Butterfly

There is a sprite for Rare PomPom's butterfly called ACE_butterfly_RARE that goes unused. It is rotated a bit to the left.

Ghazt Backing Sprites

In the now cancelled match 3 game Furcorn's Jelly Dreams, Ghazt had backing sprites for each of its body parts that when combined with additive blending on the normal sprite, gave the monster a unique look with a glowing white outline and a brighter purple. Those backing sprites ended up being included in the Official Guide's files.

Undistorted Wubbox Orb

In Wubbox's sprite sheet there is a version of its orb that doesn't have a distortion effect put on it. For some reason this sprite is called "big_orb" possibly meaning the orb was originally smaller or there was a second orb that was smaller.

Wubbox Element Sigils

For some reason there are sprites of the element sigils for air, earth, plant, water, and plasma in Wubbox's sprites. The purpose of these is unknown, but it's possible that the element sigils originally rotated around Wubbox or its orb or were stored inside the orb, with the element depending on the island (eg. plant for Plant Island, earth for Earth Island, plasma for Ethereal Island etc.) In the initial release of the Steam version of My Singing Monsters, a cold element sigil existed in Cold Island Wubbox's sprite sheet.

Early Maulch Mouth

There is an early mouth sprite for Maulch named U19_jaw_over2 that depicts it as being green and having a purple mouth.

Early Fleechwurm Leaf

U20_leaf8 is an early solid-colour version of a Fleechwurm leaf.

Dead Shrub

An unused decoration or structure for MSM called shrub_dead. This may have been turned into the "Clarinedge" Colossingum decoration in MSM, as it's shaped similarly to the Dead Shrub.

Unused Wishing Torch Sprites

There are sprites for the Wishing Torch fire effect and the designs of the Wishing Torches across other islands despite them never being seen lit and only the Plant Island design being viewable.

Dawn of Fire

Monster Choir Green Pummel

For some strange reason, an image of a green Pummel variant from the now discontinued Chinese and Korean versions of My Singing Monsters named Monster Choir by Yodo1 Games exists in the Dawn of Fire unity3d file under the name "default_portrait". Based on the name, it can be assumed that this was meant to be a placeholder image for monsters. Why this image in particular was chosen as a placeholder is unknown, though its existence could suggest the Guide was initially developed by Yodo1 before being passed onto Big Blue Bubble, with this being a remnant of that.

Placeholder Dawn of Fire Eggs

Egg	Monster
	Reedling
	Quarrister
	Spunge
	Cybop
	Scups
	Riff
	T-Rox

Early Young Quarrister

An early version of young Quarrister's sprites.

Oddities

Early Dawn of Fire Item Sprites

When the Official Guide first released, the Sugar Cane, Bamboo Flute, and Polar Teddybear items all mistakenly used early versions of their designs.

Early	Final

Early version of the Sugar Cane, which was likely changed due to it looking too similar to Bamboo.

Early	Final

Early version of the Bamboo Flute, which was based off a normal flute instead of a panflute.

There also exists an even earlier version of the Bamboo Flute which was never used in any version of the Guide. The sprite is very small and low quality.

Early	Final

Early version of the Polar Teddybear, which originally was fire themed instead of cold themed.