Prawn to be Wild is a 12-part point-and-click adventure game

Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...

, sponsored by T-Mobile

T-Mobile

T-Mobile International AG is a German-based holding company for Deutsche Telekom AG's various mobile communications subsidiaries outside Germany. Based in Bonn, Germany, its subsidiaries operate GSM and UMTS-based cellular networks in Europe, the United States, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...

, which delves into the backstory of Jonti Picking

Jonti Picking

Jonathan "Jonti" Picking , otherwise known as Weebl, is a British Internet personality and flash animator and is the creator of Weebl's Stuff....

's animated web series, On the Moon

On The Moon

Anything Can Happen on the Moon is a British Flash-cartoon web series animated by Peter Murray Hill of Auriol Productions and available on the website Weebl's Stuff...

. Focusing on Moon character Insanity Prawn Boy, PTBW is set before the crustacean moves to the moon and reveals some of his history to the player. Its episodes were released on Weebl's Stuff on Fridays as part of T-Mobile's Top-Up Friday promotion. The games are drawn by Peabo, programmed by 3D Phil and voiced by Weebl.

Part 1

• Release date: 28/09/07
• Characters Present: Insanity Prawn Boy, The king, Uncle Guardy, Mr Bubbles, Pharmacist, Indian Restaurant Owners, Giant Squid
• Link: Part 1
• Plot: The game starts in ancient times when the ocean was full of life. It takes place in the Prawn Kingdom, Insanity Prawn Boy's home. It begins as he sees two prawns reading a poster and finds out that the king is ill, and whoever cures him will take over his role as king when he dies. Insanity Prawn Boy then goes on a quest to cure the king. It is revealed that the king is ill due to eating bad Pork Korma. Insanity Prawn Boy goes to the local pharmacy, but they are all out of stomach medicine. In a cave outside the kingdom, after defeating a squid, he retrieves a bottle of Pepto-Bismol
  Pepto-Bismol
  Pepto-Bismol is an over-the-counter drug currently produced by the Procter and Gamble company in the United States of America and in Canada to treat minor digestive system upset. Its active ingredient is bismuth subsalicylate...
  
   from an oyster. Since the guards to the kings room won't let him in, Insanity Prawn Boy travels through a sewage line where a Big Daddy from the recently-released Bioshock
  Bioshock
  BioShock is a first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston and designed by Ken Levine. It was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 on August 21, 2007 in North America, and three days later in Europe and Australia. It became available on Steam on August 21, 2007...
  
  confuses him for a Little Sister, (as he was wearing a bloodstained dress) and helps him into a tall pipe. After getting into the kings room, and giving him the medicine, Insanity Prawn Boy offers the king a peanut, which he is deathly allergic to. This means that Insanity Prawn Boy has become king of the prawns, but before he can celebrate, the ice age freezes him solid. This sets the stage for Chapter Two.

Part 2

• Release date: 05/10/07
• Characters Present: Insanity Prawn Boy, A Cat In A Box, Two fish fingers, Weebl and Bob
• Link: Part 2
• Plot: It is revealed that Insanity Prawn Boy slept for thousands of years before being found by fisherman who sold him to a supermarket and if he doesn't escape his block of ice he'll be eaten. But after escaping Insanity Prawn Boy obtains a price gun and a #1 foam finger, he reads a Latin book and finds out the Latin for catnip. After finding the catnip in a room full of plants, he offers it to a cat in trade for his box. He puts the foam fingers on his head and tells the fish gangsters he is a fish as they only let fish fingers through, they fall for it and Insanity Prawn Boy goes to the Bargain Basement. There he finds Weebl and Bob looking for a pie for a precise price. He writes 'Pie' on the box and prices it at the accurate price so Weebl and Bob take him and leave the shop.

Part 3

• Release date: 12/10/07
• Characters Present: Insanity Prawn Boy, Weebl and Bob, Monkey
• Link: Part 3
• Plot: After being taken home by Weebl and Bob, Insanity Prawn Boy escapes their shopping bag and confronts them. Weebl asks Insanity Prawn Boy to prove he isn't a pie by asking him how many fingers he's holding up, which is of course none. He is then faced with a physical challenge, find the TV remote because it is stuck on the animal channel. You can then explore their house and you can use the boat to travel to 'Monkey Island' which is a small island covered in sewage. The Monkey challenges you to an Insult Swordfight, in a homage to Monkey Island
  Monkey Island
  -Places:* Nanwan Monkey Island, a nature reserve in Hainan, China* Monkey Island, North Carolina, a remote, natural island located in Currituck Sound, North Carolina* Monkey Island, in the Grand Lake o' the Cherokees in northeast Oklahoma...
  
  , after completion the monkey opens the cupboard. Insanity Prawn Boy goes through a portal in the cupboard which teleports you to an alternative dimension.

Part 4

• Release date: 19/10/07
• Characters Present: Insanity Prawn Boy, Weebl and Bob, Monkey, Elephant
• Link: Part 4
• Plot: After beings transported to another dimension you face a room of lasers once you have escaped that an alternative Weebl and Bob are in the library and seem to be intelligent. Insanity Prawn Boy finds an elephant sitting on the remote so gets an ice cream cone from a Monkey who uses the toilet, he gets pie tins from a de-activated laser room and sausages from a dog. He uses these objects to disguise himself as a mouse and the elephant runs away. You give the remote back to Weebl and Bob and they decide that there is nothing on TV so they send Insanity Prawn Boy to the video store.

Part 5

• Release date: 26/10/07
• Characters Present: Insanity Prawn Boy, Weebl and Bob, Goth, Monkey, Quentin Tarantino
  Quentin Tarantino
  Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...
  
  , Sexy Boy, Cat Face
• Link: Part 5
• Plot: After being sent to the video store Insanity Prawn Boy uses a mans phone to ask what video Weebl and Bob want. After trading videos with various people and asking for Weebl and Bob's decision on every video they decide to get 'Death Beisel' because it fits their original description. On the way home Cat Face, another one of Picking's creations, rubs his special scent on Insanity Prawn Boy; according to Cat Face this means he owns him, and subsequently takes the prawn back to Cat Face's house.

Part 6

• Release date: 2/11/07
• Characters Present: Insanity Prawn Boy, Cat Face, Fly, Old Woman
• Link: Part 6
• Plot: Insanity Prawn Boy is locked in a room with an old woman by Cat Face. After helping the old woman find her dentures, Insanity Prawn Boy is eaten by the hungry woman. Insanity Prawn Boy must navigate the old woman's innards, and exploit a fly and her robotic body parts to affect his toilet-based escape. He succeeds, and surfs off into the sewer system.

Part 7

• Release date: 9/11/07
• Characters Present: Insanity Prawn Boy, The king, Uncle Guardy, Pharmacist, Narwhal, Giant Squid
• Link: Part 7
• Plot: Insanity Prawn Boy lands in a familiar area - the Prawn Kingdom from Part 1. Many years have passed, and the prawns are dead, yet they survive as ghosts. The kingdom is in ruins, and overrun by squid. While Insanity Prawn Boy was away, the prawns decided making him king was a bad idea, and the ghost of the original king has retaken the throne. Insanity Prawn Boy wants to be king again, and the King agrees to let him on the condition that he do something about the squid first. With the help of the ghosts of the guards, the ghost of the pharmacist, the giant squid, and a narwhal
  Narwhal
  The narwhal, Monodon monoceros, is a medium-sized toothed whale that lives year-round in the Arctic. One of two living species of whale in the Monodontidae family, along with the beluga whale, the narwhal males are distinguished by a characteristic long, straight, helical tusk extending from their...
  
  , Insanity Prawn Boy is able to play the squids' favorite song - Axel F
  Axel F
  "Axel F" is the electronic instrumental theme from the 1984 film Beverly Hills Cop performed by Harold Faltermeyer. The title comes from the main character's name, Axel Foley , in the film. It topped musical charts in 1985 and remains a popular remix track. Mixes of "Axel F" topped European pop...
  
  - and lead them pied-piper-style into a cave, which is then sealed with dynamite. However, Insanity Prawn Boy neglected to leave the cave before the explosion, and ends up sealed inside with the squid.

Part 8

• Release date: 16/11/07
• Characters Present: Insanity Prawn Boy
• Link: Part 8
• Plot: After being trapped in a cave with multiple squid, Insanity Prawn Boy ends up in his own mind. He then ends up talking to his own brain, a mail room and even orders some toast. Once the chapter is completed Insanity Prawn Boy ends up in a court room facing several murder charges.

Part 9

• Release date: 23/11/07
• Characters Present: Insanity Prawn Boy
• Link: Part 9
• Plot: Insanity Prawn Boy is on trial for murder. The first case is for murdering the king. He gets through by proving that the King is in fact "a fake ghost". The second murder accusation is of killing the Elephant in Weebl and Bobs apartment, he gets away with it by saying he did it, but it was in an alternative universe and the judges says he has no jurisdiction in other universes. The judges clear Insanity Prawn Boy of all charges, but still decree him as too dangerous to live. To save him from execution (by shouting squad) he pleads that he is insane, and so is administered 'The Insanity Test' - a game involving a series of surreal animations and pictures, with unclear methods of gaining or losing points. However way you get past that, the judge sends you to Black Country Mesa, an animal testing facility.

Part 10

• Release date: 30/11/07
• Characters Present: Insanity Prawn Boy, Scientists, Big fat hamster
• Link: Part 10
• Plot: Insanity Prawn Boy is sent to Black Country Mesa testing facility (a reference to Half-Life), where he must make a formula to make him smarter in order to correctly guess a code. He then finds a rocket, which the scientists cannot approach, as they have protected it with turrets which detect intelligence (taken from Portal). Insanity Prawn Boy makes himself stupid again, using hammers from a wonky bookcase, and escapes on the rocket.

Part 11

• Release date: 7/12/07
• Characters Present: Insanity Prawn Boy, Ship's computer, Cow, Magical Trevor, Dove, Worms, Minky Steve, Carl Hondures, Worms from Space Is Fun, The Toast King
• Link: Part 11
• Plot: Insanity Prawn Boy seems to have crashed landed on a strange planet. He uses a part of the broken rocket and a sock to disguise himself as "Keith", one of the space worms who has not turned up yet. The space worms gives him a ticket to the magic show, starring Magical Trevor. Insanity Prawn Boy goes to the magic show and volunteers to help Trevor with a trick of his choice (one of the choices is to be erased from history, which then switches to a cutscene of a game supposedly starring the Toast King). He chooses to be shrunk and climbs into Trev's pocket, where he finds a bird sitting on a set of keys for Trev's spaceship. Insanity Prawn Boy then uses a condom and an inhalor to make a "worm" for the bird, who chokes on it and dies, allowing him to take the key. He uses the key to steal Trev's spaceship and leaves the strange planet.

Part 12

• Release date: 14/12/07
• Characters Present: Insanity Prawn Boy, owls, Dave Stewart, Professor Carapace, The Toast King
• Link: Part 12
• Plot: Insanity Prawn Boy crashes on the moon and decides he wants to have a wine and cheese moon warming party. Luckily, he finds a dehydrated wine and cheese party set, but needs to find water to use it. To do this, he needs to find a divining rod, but must first help some owls out of a tree they cannot get down from. Using the ashes of some former music stars, IPB creates a bomb, blows up the tree, and gets a divining rod to find some water. At the wine and cheese party, IPB meets his nemesis, Professor Carapace, who has been trying to get rid of him since the beginning of the series. After telling her that he enjoyed all the challenges she gave him, she forgives him, and gives him the keys to her moon buggy so IPB can find some more guests for the party. Finally, IPB meets the Toast King, and must recall the conversation they had in episode one of 'On the Moon'. They return to the party, with a poor selection of cheese.