![]() ![]() Genie Jafar looks so cool, especially when he gets sucked into the lamp!.Two things that helped decide our direction were these important pieces from the film that really stuck out in our brainstorm: What did our team land on as the final power? It could create an inconsistent experience for the Player with that Emoji. However, we try to avoid making Villain and Player powers that are too different. The Villain power will always be an obstacle and the Player power will always benefit the player. An ideal Villain power is one whose visuals and animation can be applied to the Player version without having to change the game effect too much. It’s always tough deciding on the direction for Villain designs because, when designing their power, we also have to consider the Player version of their power. If you can break the sand timer, you get the power-up. A sand timer on the board blocks Emojis and holds a crafted power-up inside.Each time he activates, he eats Emojis and gets 1 length longer for blocking.His fire goes around the board and part of it turns into a snake.Snake Jafar constricts a bunch of Emojis so they’re blocked from matching.Here are some thoughts we had when brainstorming his power: What came to mind when brainstorming the power for the Snake Jafar Emoji? Then we thought, that Snake Jafar moment in the film is pretty spectacular! So this felt like an exciting way to explore that. I had the audio cassette tape! True story.) But the normal Jafar Villain has been around for a few years, so we thought, “How can we spice this up?” Since the advent of Story Emojis, we’ve wanted to do a Story Villain somehow. Well, we knew we wanted to explore Aladdin again, because who doesn’t love Aladdin? (It’s definitely one of MY favorites. Why did we choose to make the Snake Jafar Emoji? Snake Jafar is the first Villain that has two phases to his power - you have to hit a wiggling Snake Jafar first to make him transform into Genie Jafar, and then hit Genie Jafar again to get him sucked into the lamp!.Since this comes from a specific story moment, Snake Jafar is the first Villain that, when collected, is a Story Emoji instead of a Villain Emoji!.So what’s extra awesome about our Emoji version of Snake Jafar is two things: □) What is unique about the Snake Jafar Emoji? Hence, I asked Andy, our Senior Game Designer, to spill the beans on what we did behind the scenes! (I rhymed that naturally…I hope you all are proud of me. As I mentioned before, Snake Jafar is very new and very unique in a couple ways. Snake Jafar is a new Story Emoji that can be added to your Emoji Collection today! Just play through our Snake Jafar Villain Event going on in-game through January 12. Brains over brawn, right? The pen is mightier than the sword? OK, I think you get the point. Jafar transforms into a genie and gets sucked into the lamp! Aladdin’s wits save the day. He tricks him into wishing to be a genie. Shortly after, Aladdin has the brilliant idea to take advantage of Jafar’s power hungry mindset. He turns into a snake to constrict Aladdin. Remember this guy? Near the end of Aladdin, Jafar has Jasmine trapped in a sand timer. New year, new beginnings after all! Allow us to introduce…Snake Jafar! But here we are in January 2021! To kick off the new year, let’s do another Emoji Highlight! We’re trying something new for our first new Emoji Villain of the year in Disney Emoji Blitz. Happy New Year, Blitzers! Can you believe 2020 is over? Neither can we! We thought there’d be another month, like Jantember or something. ![]()
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