Calimero (1993)

A famous cartoon hero in the eighties. He's also the character of the first ever game of PPP Team. Running slowly, jumping with difficulty, sometimes flying (when he catches the right bonus), he's searching for his friend Priscilla in "Calimero VS the Dragon", an EP-Basic game of 1994.

Bilou (1993)

We never really choose wether Bilou has or not been a boy before to be a Bubble. Dealing with the craziest quest of PPP games, he has mighty magic powers and use them to find back his appearance or his friend bouli.
Properties: cute, joker, unstable, has a lot of hidden properties he's the only one to know.
Games: Bilou's SkyQuest (shoot'm'up C64), Bilou's Quest(zelda-like), Bilou's Adventure (platform), Bilou's block (tetris).

Bilou (1994)

Bilou's friend forever, he's the one kidnapped by the first bad guy at the start of the game and that you'll have to rescue. He's a good mecano, and the inventor of the AstroCruiser and the AstroFlasher with screw-perforation (bilou's ship and gun, respectievely).
Properties: red cap, flying platform (that works only odd times), can hide behind the background when he's tired, sword-master.
Games: Bilou's SkyQuest (shoot'm'up C64), Bilou's Block, Rodrick's Quest.

Pengo (1995)

Pengo is the first ever character for a GameMaker's game. In fact, it was a hero on the tutorial game for that "click-and-play" program, but we had no idea for another one, so we took that cute penguin. He's a WorldRunner, especially when the evil Bubble rapt his girlfriend (a pink she-penguin).
Properties: sometimes hides himself in a spaceship.
Games: Pengo's Adventure

Burner (2/1995)

Funny caricature for Piet (aka Piet Burner that time). Pyroman, egocentrist and rebel, he's been lost in a disk crash :(
Properties: Shoots fireballs/disks and drink Petrol.
Games: Burner and Ice, Maria and Martin Bross.

Ice (2/1995)

Funny caricature for Pype. He's the complementary of Burner. He's quite a "i-dont-really-care" anti-hero who follows his mate Burner only to insure his food-stock and train to YoYo.
Properties: Run and Jump like a Toon, shoots Yoyo and sometimes stuns more powerfull baddies with a guitar-chord.
Games: Burner and Ice, Maria and Martin Bross.

Badman (3/1995)

Initially drawn to be a Boss in Bilou's Quest, he's been turn into the superZero of dumb and dangerous missions. He moves around zone in accord to his stupidity, trying to save the world.
His "ridiculous" characters progressivly disappears in BADMAN II & III where this role is played by his associate RubishBinn
Properties: owns *loudy* and old-fashionned weapons, seat-belt of Karate (with a preferency for samurai-sword). Can also hide-down and slide-down.
Games: Badman I: Save the World, Badman II: Out of this World, Badman III: Badboys are back.

Jack Boost (5/1995)

President of Europa in the middle of XXX century, he's one of the most violent characters of PPP Team. Initially the character of Blork Carnage, where his brother tries to take over the world with genetic-maipulated lifeform (the B.L.O.R.K.).
Properties: Huge amount of weapons (classic firegun, firethrower, BubbleGun, UnderwaterGun, RocketLauncher...) and of destruction-stuffs (tanks, heavy-armed plane...)
Games: Blork Carnage , Panzer 1945, Panzer 2019, Panzer III.

Droid (5/1995)

Chain-made Robot in Blork factories. He seems to come to live and then lost himself into a volcanic cavern!?...
Properties: Bad Jumper, burps, weak pneumatics, looks for values (like screwdrawer, etc.)
Games: Blork Carnage , Droids (funware, 1 level)

Mike Blood (1995)

Space Policeman specialized in alien extermination. Doesn't hesitate a second before firing them. Actually captain in the earth army, he disapeard in a disk crash while investigating a space-laboratory infested by aliens.
Properties: Lot of weapons (firethrower, laser...), voice by Pierrick
Games: BloodWar (lost)

Fury (7/96)

HairBall. (a bilou with Fur). He's originally a creation of Kalisto in games Tiny and Furry of the Furies, but the actual character has nothing to do with it's original form, anyway (Hero of "The Fury Book", a collection of picture that i'll try to scan asap.)
Properties: Hairy, Hungry, Sympathic. Shoots "Kameahs"
Games: 4 to save ToonLand

FuturBoy (aka Gan) (5/96)

That hot-headed boy should have been the hero of a beatmup game never released. Coming from futur-times, he's engaged to save ToonLand from the Evil gee-what's-his-name-again-?
Properties: Fires PowerBlast, use some Rugby-ball-shaped aliens to help him.
Games: 4 to save ToonLand, FuturBoy (lost)

Skot (5/96)

Evidence of Pogo's halt in PPP Team, Skot is a humanoid (terminator-like) shooting everything on his way with his long-distance laser-guided gun.
Properties: unknown
Games: 4 to save ToonLand

Mol (5/96)

Very angry after badman, the winner of its troops, our punky friend has trained his a-do-ken and goes back to Toonland, defying the Mad Bubble.
Properties: Sunglasses, Fluo hairs, shoots adokens and scratches everything blocking its way.
Games: 4 to save ToonLand

Xeen (8/96)

No, i didn't mispelled it: his name is Xeen, and not Keen (That's his son, the vorticon blaster from ID software). Never came back from it's mission on moon. We just found his son (frozen) and a note saying he was saving the galaxy.
Properties: Never goes out without his helmet.
Games: Xeen

Biokid (1/97)

Tiny professionnal antivirus (MegaMan-like), desesperately fight trough networks looking for it's deathly enemy the Terminator 007 virus.
Properties: Shoots YAPs and YOTSEMEKAs. F-Prot v2.6
Games: Biokid, NetworkWar (project)

TwinBee (1996)

Twinnbee is a Konami character (Pop'n'Twinbee), freely adapted on PC by PasKal and Pype.
Properties: Shoots Hammers, Boosts thru the levels.
Games: TwinbeeLand

RubishBinn (1997)

idiot, incompetent, ignorant and impossible-to-miss friend of Badman; he got the first price for the biggest-stupidity-contest (that was tight, though, because the MAX, the rabbit from Sam'n'Max). Seems that he was a pizza-delivrer before he start fighting crimes. He use to be kidnapped by the first badboy he met, and to be moved to quite unusual places.
Properties: Has pinky underpants on his head, do spin attack, runs faster than BadMan, try to climb the walls.
Games: Badman II: Out of this world,Badman III: BadBoyz are back

Where's Bilou from?

The Birth...

In the middle of year 1994, The two brothers Piet & Pype met a guy name Pierrick, musician and coder on a CPC-64. Pierrick had made a huge amount of small games (labyrinth) starring a blue ball with eyes and feets called bubble
       
         
           
           
           
         
       
         

A few weeks later, Pype tried to code such a game (with a bubble-like character) on it's PC, when Pierrick came back. Because he called Pype "Bilou" the whole afternoon, Pype choose that name for the Basic file he was saving.
Two days later, Bilou became the name of the Blue bublle.

Growing Up...

The second step occurs near november '94 when Piet drew the first ever page full of Bilou, with baddies, etc. for a game called "Bubble Adventure". Bilou got ARMS and HANDS. We decided to forget about arms or leg, but kept hands. The feets became green and the hands Ceylan.

With "Bilou's Adventure", a lot of world have been drawned and thought such as the Forest (with walking apples, jumping mushrooms...), The school (math course was really hard for Piet&Pierrick), the castle, etc.

During "Bilou's Quest", Pype & PCJulius worked a lot on Bilou's mind: how would Bilou speak, think, what kind of stuff he likes, is afraid of, etc. They've also drawn a ton of tiny gags starring Bilou.

And Now ?

Despite i'm a student at university, you'll still find Bilou on my notes. Working on baddies (like the Blob, or Grungee) or on second characters like the Tree, Papy Mushroom, Chamignome, etc. I'm going deeper in relationships between those characters, trying to make Bilou a crossing-over between Mario and Zelda.

Bilou's Book!

Aaargh! That's too hard stopping! I've started the "Bilou-book" , a comic-strip relating Bilou and Bouli' adventure.

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