August 28
Popfly Game Creator Now in Beta
It’s a great time to come back to Popfly and check out all the improvements! Here are some features we just released as part of the Game Creator Beta:
Features for everyone:
| New profile pages, with easier ways to view people’s projects, friends, recent activity, and more |  |
| View anyone's favorite projects |  |
| Earn badges by creating compelling content, being a good game player, making friends, or just being lucky! Learn more about badges here. | |
| Lots of performance improvements and bug fixes | |
Features for game creators of all skill levels:
| Undo support for actor appearance editing | |
| Insert images and videos directly into your actor or scene | |
| Play audio from the Web or an uploaded file without custom code | |
| Customize actor edges with a simple drag-and-drop view | |
| Nudge elements into their proper positions with arrow keys | |
| Preview any scene inside the motion dialog and custom code dialog | |
| Jump to any scene when playing a game in the Play editor | |
Features for advanced game authors:
| New properties that can be used at runtime | Actor: Name, TypeName, VisualX, VisualY, VisualWidth, VisualHeight, Scene: Width, Height |
| Console in the custom code dialog | |
Scroll wheel & tab support in the XAML & JavaScript editor
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| "Current Scene" support, for more generic actors and scenes that are easier to clone | |
Features for game embedders:
| Add ?mute=true to the URL to mute the game by default |
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Features for mashup authors:
| New StringFormatter block |
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| New ImageSlideShow block | |
| Image scraping support in the RSS block | 
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