Popfly

Although we’re sad that Popfly is going away, it’s nice that the Popfly Team gave us a parting gift: the Popfly Game Downloader, a tool that lets you download and run Popfly games offline. To get the Game Downloader, head over to the project page on MSDN. The tool is available in a .zip file, which…

Back in October, the European Microsoft Innovation Center celebrated its 5th anniversary with a reception at its offices in Aachen, Germany.  In addition to enjoying the party atmosphere, researchers were on hand to demo some of their current project.  I had my camera with me and made a…

This Week on Channel 9, Dan and Christian "LittleGuru" Liensberger go through this week's news including: - Powerset features now in Windows Live, via Channel 10. - Four new Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) videos on Visual Studio 2008. - Mike Snow: How to add snow effects…

The Popfly team has just added a bunch of new features to the Popfly Game Creator beta. The game creator is now more social with the addition of profile pages for users that show off people’s projects, friends, recent activity  and more. You can also see anyone’s favorite projects and…

The Popfly team has put together a handful of Olympic-themed games in honor of the Summer Games occurring now in Beijing. There are ten games in all included archery, boxing, diving, gymnastics, long jump, soccer, synchronized swimming, track & field, weightlifting, and even torch lighting!…

This Week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan cover: Updates to Live Mesh  Improve Desktop Search performance by downloading Windows Search 4.0 Lots of updates to Popfly Game Creator from Adam Nathan The IE team sends Mozilla a congratulations cake (via Ars Technica) Update…

The folks on the Popfly team are keeping a list of their favorite games made by regular Popfly users over on the Popfly wiki. The games are categorized as Shooter, Adventure, Arcade, Puzzle, and Other. It's pretty impressive how many people have made games in such a short amount of time - something…

By now, you've heard about the Popfly Game Creator and you're ready to get started building your first game. Great! But what do you do? Well luckily, there is the Popfly Wiki to help you out. On this web site, you can find helpful info and documentation about Popfly, including how to use the Game…

This Week on Channel 9, we have special guest host Jacqueline Russell talking about Popfly Game Creator. We Cover: - Intro to Popfly Game Creator (0 - 3:14) - Clip of Adam Nathan from the Popfly team building a 2D side scroller (3:14 - 5:39) - Jacqueline builds a custom Channel 9 game…

For more on Popfly Game Creator don't miss This Week on Channel 9. Jacqueline Russel, Lead Project Manager for Popfly, talks about Popfly Game Creator and Adam Nathan from the Popfly team goes over building a 2D side scroller. I played around with it this morning and it's really simple - so if…