Prerelease:The Henry Stickmin Collection

This page details prerelease information and/or media for The Henry Stickmin Collection.

Development Timeline

2016

• November 22 - PuffballsUnited announces the sixth installment of the Henry Stickmin games on Newgrounds, stating that it will be "huge" and take more than a year to come out. Puffballs also states that Ellie Rose will make a return.

2017

• January 4 - Puffballs announces that he has started work on the sixth game, stating that it might be the final installment in the series and that it will "be 3x as big as Fleeing the Complex." He also confirms that it will not be a free online Flash game, and will instead be released on Steam alongside remade versions of all the previous Henry Stickmin games as part of The Henry Stickmin Collection.
• December 12 - Puffballs confirms that the sixth game's acronym will be "CtM", also revealing part of a screenshot of Completing the Mission.

2018

• May 22 - Puffballs confirms the sixth game's title as "Completing the Mission", as well as confirming that characters such as Charles Calvin would be making a return.
• December 30 - Puffballs states that Completing the Mission is at 25% completion and shows off an updated logo for the Center for Chaos Containment, confirming its reappearance.

2019

• February 15 - Puffballs reveals a teaser on Newgrounds, showing off the path customization of Completing the Mission. Sometime after, Puffballs livestreams himself animating one of the fails on Twitch, specifically the Rocket Launcher + Rope one from the "Pardoned Pals/Toppat Recruits" route.
• July 5 - Puffballs makes a post on Newgrounds stating that the game has reached 50% completion. The Steam page for the game is also launched, revealing a plethora of new screenshots.

2020

• January 1 - Puffballs reveals more screenshots, including the path customizing feature and that the main setting for Completing the Mission would be a Toppat base.
• April 1 - Puffballs reveals a fail for the "Special BROvert Ops" path, showing the Subsonic Wave fail, only with the regular noise replaced with "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley. The Rickroll was a joke, and its audio is not present in the final game.
• June 19 - On Twitter and Steam, Puffballs announces the game's release date as being August 7, 2020.
• June 30 - Puffballs confirms that the game's animations are "basically done", and the Completing the Mission will have a total of 16 different endings and 164 fails.
• July 15 - Puffballs reveals Completing the Mission's logo, its menu screen, and the name for the secret Toppat base: The Toppat Orbital Site.
• August 6 - Puffballs uploads a launch trailer for Completing the Mission.
• August 7 - The Henry Stickmin Collection is released on Steam.

Scrapped Ideas

Original Walkthrough Fail

Shown off by Puffballs, the Walkthrough fail in the "Toppat 4 Life" route of Completing the Mission was originally much different, being a parody of 2000s-era tutorials that were common on YouTube. It was removed due to licensing issues and Puffballs liking the used version more.

Ellie Rose Perspective

Puffballs had planned on making Ellie a Toppat, having a perspective where she would help overthrow Terrence Suave. This idea was scrapped for unknown reasons.

Concept Art

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Concept art of the main areas used throughout Completing the Mission, used for routing out the various endings.

An early sketch of the game's title screen, as well as art seen in some promotional material.

Early Art

The game's lead developer and animator, PuffballsUnited, posted some early art assets for a few of the scenes on his Twitter and Newgrounds.

An early screenshot of the scene in which Reginald calls Burt Curtis in the Jewel Baron route, with much cruder art.

An early screenshot of scene of Henry on the Toppat train seen in the Little Nest Egg route, again with cruder art.

One of the first failscreens from the Toppat King route. Note the early map icon in the bottom left corner.

An early sketch of the interior of the airship found in the Pure Blooded Thief route.

Early Animations

Also posted to Puffballs' twitter are some earlier versions of certain animations in the game.

An earlier and cruder version of the scene in which the Bukowski twins fight in the Pardoned Pals/Toppat Recruits route.

An early version of the fight scene between the two tanks in the Toppat 4 Life route. Asseen here, the G.A.B.E.G.G's laser was originally green.

An animatic of the fight between Henry and the Right Hand Man in the Revenged route.

Raw Voice Recordings

The raw voice recording for the headphone-wearing government member (no, not Charles) was uploaded to YouTube from PuffballsUnited on February 11th, 2021.