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    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 clip_image001
    View anyone's favorite projects clip_image003
    Earn badges by creating compelling content, being a good game player, making friends, or just being lucky!  Learn more about badges here. clip_image004 
    Lots of performance improvements and bug fixes  

    Features for game creators of all skill levels:

    Undo support for actor appearance editing clip_image006
    Insert images and videos directly into your actor or scene clip_image007
    Play audio from the Web or an uploaded file without custom code clip_image009 
    Customize actor edges with a simple drag-and-drop view clip_image011
    Nudge elements into their proper positions with arrow keys clip_image012
    Preview any scene inside the motion dialog and custom code dialog clip_image014
    Jump to any scene when playing a game in the Play editor clip_image016 

    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 clip_image018
    Scroll wheel & tab support in the XAML & JavaScript editor

     
    "Current Scene" support, for more generic actors and scenes that are easier to clone clip_image020

    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 clip_image025
    Image scraping support in the RSS block

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