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1,705.) ilomilo

Release: November 8th, 2010 | GGF: Puzzle, Collectathon | Developer(s): SouthEnd Interactive AB | Publisher(s): Microsoft Corporation | Platform(s): Windows Phone (2010), Xbox 360 (2011), Windows Apps (2012)

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Merry Christmas 2010!

-From the ilomilo blog Archives

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Happy Birthday ilomilo!

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9/17/19

An old Wormflyer doodle

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4/27/23

A few Minecraft enemies in the style of ilomilo

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Breaking News!!!

After several years of wondering where the plushie versions of ilo & milo ended up (or if they even still existed), we finally have an answer...

They're still together!

"After southend closed down, @/sidebjorn took them home." -@/simogo on Twitter

There's also a framed drawing that can be seen in the game under "train concepts"

(Anyway, this is very cool to see & Thanks again to Björn & Simogo for responding!)

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Happy New Year!

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Something I forgot to make a post for: did you know that ilomilo plus turned 10 on November 30th?

Happy Birthday ilomilo+ !

☕❤️💙🍪

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Happy 12th Birthday ilomilo!

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An ilomilo wedding cake!!!

https://www.cakeaffair.co.uk/product/ilomilo-computer-game/

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9/7/2014

Found two Ancient ilomilo statues while looking through old Emails

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so i spent an embarrassing amount of time today digging thru the game files and collecting info (more on that later)… and in the process i had an epiphany that blew my MIND!!!!

here’s the memory for playroom escapades – a recreation of the playroom / attic in the house where kalliope and saffron grew up with their parents milton and ilona:

note that there are four childlike drawings on the wall, one of each family member (presumably done by saffron – kalliope is drawn very small and without any details, so my theory is that saffron is the older sibling to kalliope, and saffron drew this when they were a toddler and kalliope was a baby!). now let’s zoom in on ilona and milton:

also of note is this little blue car in the window (which ilona is implied to be driving in to support milton thru his health crisis — both in the text of the memory and in the silhouette aligning with the drawing of her (though what is implied to be milton’s silhouette with the cane in the other window debunks this bc he isn’t wearing a hat lol but still)):

now with all of that in mind……………….. (dramatic pause)…………… here are some background / “prop” characters in playroom escapades, specifically seen in the background of the level select menu (!!!) as well as the levels “suspicious toys,” “toyraiser,” and “hide and seek”:

see how the car is the same color and shape as the one in the window? and how the characters inside it bear a striking resemblance to the drawings of milton and ilona on the wall? yeah uhmnmmm. in conclusion i think we are literally looking at ilona zevon and milton foley. i repeat I THINK WE ARE LITERALLY LOOKING AT ILONA ZEVON AND MILTON FOLEY

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Old Sketchbook Art - 4/1/19

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assorted things i learned about ilomilo while plumbing the game files at 1am instead of packing, doing homework, or sleeping

CHARACTERS, CUBES, AND CREATURES

the sock puppet dog is called a cubethief

the little DEMON cube that shoots up if u walk in front of it and goes “DOOWAP!” is called… the teaser cube. unsurprising

the apple eating creature that goes “YOPE YOPE YOPE” is called a muncher (and the apples are called edibles 😏)

the birdcage creature is called a nabber

the bounce cube is called… exactly what it sounds like LOL (and fun fact being launched off of it is called a “piong!”)

the plunger cube is also called exactly what it sounds like

the arrow thing that shifts gravity is called a carpet

the single cube with the little bunny ears that u can pick up is called… a p-cube? idk what the p stands for

the long doglike cube that snaps out from 1 to 2-4 blocks and woofs at u is called a chain cube!

the like duplicate cubes that you can create out of paper in ch 3 are called mirror cubes

the bird cube that flies vertically is called the elevator cube (duh i suppose)

the cube that lets you walk on top of it and flip upside down is called the hole cube

the cube that turns u 90 degrees when u walk on top of it (or that rolls one block every couple seconds) etc etc) and kinda like.. burps at u. is called a rotocube

lantern cube and light cubes (what u create by placing the lantern cube) my beloveds…. <3

the creature in berry story that’s like the weird little guy on wheels that is always on the opposite face of the active player is called a mimic and the little guy on wheels who carries you with the tray is called the transporter cube. i know that one or both of these two have been referred to as piccolo and/or bouncer before in canon and the sounds they make have been called gny/issel which i think means “creak” in swedish. idk im too tired to go back and check any of the naming stuff (but anyway i don’t like berry story very much so im not as motivated KDHDKDHDKDHJ) but i will do so someday in the hopefully near future <3

the cute creatures who play instruments when u win or get achievements etc are called (aptly) drumman and tubaman

sebastian = “infoman” (i need to go back and check if his ladybug was in the file.. im assuming so) and his house is called the info cube >:~) hell yeah

the safkas are called “kid” in the texture files and “baby” in the sound files 😭😭😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺🥺 and there are actually 4 of them that were made for the game but the red one isn’t used i don’t think!

fun fact: ilo’s pattern is plaid and milo’s pattern is floral… and all of the safkas but the teal one has both plaid and floral (🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺)!!! the teal one has vertical stripes + floral which is very cool :”~D

this is probably common knowledge but it’s news to me — if u get certain achievements in world of keflings and raskulls then u can unlock special costumes for ilo and milo! ilo can be a pirate, “winter” (??), a devil, or a dragon… milo can be a doctor, a witch, a king, or a wizard. not sure if there is anything to read into about this but i am thinking MANY thoughts and i also want to do fanart

i have no idea what a wallpig is but apparently it’s a character. i think it’s honestly the giant background thing that wraps around chapter 1’s skybox (name for level environment apparently) sometimes? but yeah i have to go check

idk if it’s just me but… i don’t think fold cubes are actually in the game right? like maybe they’re the mirror makers but i thought they looked like portals and not faces

also speaking of mirrors i feel like there are mirror textures in the files that don’t actually exist in the game.. like for the nabber and stuff? but ch 3 is my least favorite so i might be misremembering

some notable background creatures i am either too tired to remember or haven’t paid enough attention to: balloon creature, a cupboard creature, the dogfish (which i vaguely recall), the eggs (i think those are from the multiplayer version which i haven’t played in ages), ropegirl, VICTOR (who i will see in my nightmares), and pirate piany who i literally don’t think ive ever seen in my life but there’s sebastian lore in there bc they look like sebastian. basicslly i need to go back and replay the whole game but pay attention to bc characters

LORE AND EASTER EGGS

interestingly enough it seems like the park level was supposed to be ch 1 as planned but then ch 2 would’ve been the noir / night level, ch 3 would’ve been the water level, and ch 4 would’ve been the paper level? that reflects in some game files but not all of them so i wonder what their idea for the story was before they made the switch

letter names 1-5 (i.e. signatures on the memories) are ilona, milton, kalliope, saffron, and dr gris (probably out of order im too tired to check lol) but letter names 6-10 turned up totally blank for me. idk if they’re just supposed to be negative versions of them but the fact that they have numbers and not any sort of “n” indicator is… suspicious

game mechanics i saw in the files but genuinely have zero recollection of: “blink of denial,” smooch, and a phone ringing and being picked up?? maybe all of this is from berry story but idk

sound file names i get a kick out of: “suckplopp” (sound effect; exactly what the name implies) and “rhubarbarella” (the version of the ilomilo theme that plays when u first start up the game before pressing enter to get to the main menu or whatever)

the memories are called “meta stories” in certain game files and the memory fragments are called “membits” that generate “memory fluid” that goes into the “memory machine” !!! wow

there are lots of cool houses / trees / etc in the bg that ive never paid attention to before but a few of them either have faces / characters on or inside them OR…. they have ilo and milo on them 🤯 like this one house in ch 4 (noir level) has a bunch of them in the ilomilo shuffle style incl with crossed out eyes???? uhmmmm

other cool bg things to give shoutouts to: the carboat, the lightrope (which presumably ropegirl hangs out on), the machinarium

i am SO MAD abt this one. so there’s a paper plane that flies around in ch 3 AND IT’S MADE OF AN ILOMILO MANUAL 😭😭😭😭😭 like it has a picture of ilo and milo on it and then u can see folded up excerpts abt chain cubes and p-cubes and the premise of the game… psspspspsps southend studios release the sacred texts

one of the playroom “props” has ilomilo shuffle playing on a video game screen! and (even cooler) another one has a whole bunch of wooden blocks with the only visible block letters being k, s, i, and m……. our four main characters kalliope saffron ilona and milton might have something to say about this 😜

according to the sound files there was going to be a narrator implemented into the game in some way shape or form! complete with breathing and lighting a pipe and lots of speaking files… but i couldn’t tell if they were speaking an actual language or a made up one like sebastian (and now that i say that i wonder if the narrator would’ve been sebastian’s “human” counterpart? but idk)

one of the background items (technically two but the 2nd is a recolor) features a label for something called nom nom jam with ilo and milo dancing around the words! ilona and milton jam making era……

THE RECORDS READ “SEBASTIAN RECORDS” WITH MILTON AND ILONA’S NAMES AS THE ARTISTS?????? were they musicians 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

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The Skyboxes!

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heaven, do you want me (2016)

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creachers….. (2014-16)