Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Popfly Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Popfly http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/popfly Channel 9 keeps you up to date with the latest news and behind the scenes info from Microsoft that developers love to keep up with. From LINQ to SilverLight – Watch videos and hear about all the cool technologies coming and the people behind them. http://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/popfly en Wed, 22 May 2013 16:05:18 GMT Wed, 22 May 2013 16:05:18 GMT Rev9 34 2 25 Get the Popfly Game Downloader 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 you’ll need to first unzip before double-clicking on the .exe file it contains. Once installed, you’ll be able to run any shared Popfly game including your own and those built by the community. Mashups and private games are not supported, however.

To find community games to download, enter in a search term in the Game Downloader search box and then click “Go.” You’ll be taken to the game's homepage where you’ll notice a yellow toolbar which appears at the top of the screen prompting you to “click here” to download that game. Click the toolbar, and the Popfly Game Downloader will begin downloading the game for offline use. When it’s done, you’ll be given a link you can click to launch the game. Upon clicking, a new browser window will open revealing the html file that includes the offline version of the game.

The Coding4Fun website has more info on using this tool, including tips on how to download all of a user’s projects in bulk, how to view the games you downloaded, and more.

With the Popfly Game Downloader, you'll be able to play any Popfly game even after the service shuts down. That will happen on August 24th, so you only have about a month to get your collection of offline games set up. 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Get-the-Popfly-Game-Downloader 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 you’ll need to first unzip before double-clicking on the .exe file it contains. Once installed, you’ll be able to run any shared Popfly game including your own and those built by the community. Mashups and private games are not supported, however. To find community games to download, enter in a search term in the Game Downloader search box and then click “Go.” You’ll be taken to the game's homepage where you’ll notice a yellow toolbar which appears at the top of the screen prompting you to “click here” to download that game. Click the toolbar, and the Popfly Game Downloader will begin downloading the game for offline use. When it’s done, you’ll be given a link you can click to launch the game. Upon clicking, a new browser window will open revealing the html file that includes the offline version of the game. The Coding4Fun website has more info on using this tool, including tips on how to download all of a user’s projects in bulk, how to view the games you downloaded, and more. With the Popfly Game Downloader, you'll be able to play any Popfly game even after the service shuts down. That will happen on August 24th, so you only have about a month to get your collection of offline games set up.  http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Get-the-Popfly-Game-Downloader Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:56:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Get-the-Popfly-Game-Downloader Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 8 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Get-the-Popfly-Game-Downloader/RSS Popfly popfly game creator EMIC - Popfly & Sensors 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 video of two of the demos.

The first demo is shown by Marcel Tilly, Program Manager at EMIC.  He demonstrates a feature that was added to Microsoft Popfly called the alternative block.  Popfly is an online tool to build mashups, games, web applications and websites.  In Popfly, services and data are represented as blocks and to create a mashup you just combine the blocks. The alternative block that the EMIC researchers created recommends alternatives for other blocks that could be used in a mashup.

The second demo has to do with sensor networks and is being performed by Andreas Lachenmann, EMIC Software Design Engineer.  The EMIC team built a framework for sensor networks to program the sensor nodes.  Andreas shows us how they integrated it into Powerpoint and what the acceleration, light and pressure sensor nodes do to the program.

For more information on EMIC research, projects and partners, visit:
http://www.microsoft.com/EMIC

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/lorigros/EMIC-Popfly--Sensors 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 video of two of the demos. The first demo is shown by Marcel Tilly, Program Manager at EMIC.  He demonstrates a feature that was added to Microsoft Popfly called the alternative block.  Popfly is an online tool to build mashups, games, web applications and websites.  In Popfly, services and data are represented as blocks and to create a mashup you just combine the blocks. The alternative block that the EMIC researchers created recommends alternatives for other blocks that could be used in a mashup. The second demo has to do with sensor networks and is being performed by Andreas Lachenmann, EMIC Software Design Engineer.  The EMIC team built a framework for sensor networks to program the sensor nodes.  Andreas shows us how they integrated it into Powerpoint and what the acceleration, light and pressure sensor nodes do to the program. For more information on EMIC research, projects and partners, visit:http://www.microsoft.com/EMIC 295 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/lorigros/EMIC-Popfly--Sensors Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:28:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/lorigros/EMIC-Popfly--Sensors Lori Grosland Lori Grosland 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/lorigros/EMIC-Popfly--Sensors/RSS EMIC European Microsoft Innovation Center Popfly Sensor sensors This Week on C9: New Live Search features, freebies, why TDD fails and Duke Nukem

- 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 in Silverlight (live demo), via Alvin Ashcraft.
- Roy Osherove: Why Test Driven Development fails
- Andy Dunn: API changes from XNA 2.0 to XNA 3.0
- Popfly adds tracking ripped projects.
- Resource Guide to Free Microsoft Software and Online Services
- Updated version of Snippet Editor/Designer now available on Codeplex
- Take the .NET Framework deployment and redist survey to give feedback to the team.
- Steve Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell to keynote at Professional Developer's Conference.
- Larry Osterman and Raymond Chen to give Windows sessions at PDC
- Video clip of Lisa Olson on how to write a killer resume.
- Christian's pick of the week: Xbox Live Arcade adds Duke Nukem 3D including multiplayer and co-op modes.
- Dan's pick of the week: TweetSQL that adds CLR stored procedures that enable your database to automagically send tweets to Twitter, via Greg Duncan

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-New-Live-Search-features-freebies-why-TDD-fails-and-Duke-Nukem 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 in Silverlight (live demo), via Alvin Ashcraft. - Roy Osherove: Why Test Driven Development fails - Andy Dunn: API changes from XNA 2.0 to XNA 3.0 - Popfly adds tracking ripped projects. - Resource Guide to Free Microsoft Software and Online Services - Updated version of Snippet Editor/Designer now available on Codeplex - Take the .NET Framework deployment and redist survey to give feedback to the team. - Steve Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell to keynote at Professional Developer's Conference. - Larry Osterman and Raymond Chen to give Windows sessions at PDC - Video clip of Lisa Olson on how to write a killer resume. - Christian's pick of the week: Xbox Live Arcade adds Duke Nukem 3D including multiplayer and co-op modes. - Dan's pick of the week: TweetSQL that adds CLR stored procedures that enable your database to automagically send tweets to Twitter, via Greg Duncan 1840 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-New-Live-Search-features-freebies-why-TDD-fails-and-Duke-Nukem Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:53:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-New-Live-Search-features-freebies-why-TDD-fails-and-Duke-Nukem Dan Fernandez Dan Fernandez 10 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-New-Live-Search-features-freebies-why-TDD-fails-and-Duke-Nukem/RSS Live Services Popfly SQL 2008 SQL Server 2008 XNA XNA framework Popfly Game Creator Gets New Features 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 subscribe to either those favs or their entire project list via an RSS feed.

New badges also bring a more social element to the Popfly community and they make it more fun to participate, too. The badges offer awards for being a great player, being active in the community, being the first to play someone’s game, and many other things.

Game creators themselves will be pleased to find all sorts of new tools in this latest update like the ability to insert images or video into a scene, preview scenes, jump to any scene in the Play editor, and more. Advanced game authors will also find some additional features like the new scroll wheel and tab support in the XAML & JavaScript editor, for example.

You can check out the full list of the new Popfly features here. Visit popfly.com to create your own game or play those that have already been made by others.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Popfly-Game-Creator-Gets-New-Features 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 subscribe to either those favs or their entire project list via an RSS feed. New badges also bring a more social element to the Popfly community and they make it more fun to participate, too. The badges offer awards for being a great player, being active in the community, being the first to play someone’s game, and many other things. Game creators themselves will be pleased to find all sorts of new tools in this latest update like the ability to insert images or video into a scene, preview scenes, jump to any scene in the Play editor, and more. Advanced game authors will also find some additional features like the new scroll wheel and tab support in the XAML & JavaScript editor, for example. You can check out the full list of the new Popfly features here. Visit popfly.com to create your own game or play those that have already been made by others. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Popfly-Game-Creator-Gets-New-Features Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:55:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Popfly-Game-Creator-Gets-New-Features Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Popfly-Game-Creator-Gets-New-Features/RSS Popfly popfly game creator Play The Olympics With Popfly 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! Well, that last one isn’t really a sport, but you get the idea. The games, like most of the gaming content built with Popfly, are for the casual gamer who’s looking to kill some time or just relax and take a break by playing a lightweight, easy, and fun game. Next to each of the games listed, there is a link to customize the game, so if you want to tweak it to make it your own, you have that option, too.  You can play all the games from popfly.com/sports. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Play-The-Olympics-With-Popfly 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! Well, that last one isn’t really a sport, but you get the idea. The games, like most of the gaming content built with Popfly, are for the casual gamer who’s looking to kill some time or just relax and take a break by playing a lightweight, easy, and fun game. Next to each of the games listed, there is a link to customize the game, so if you want to tweak it to make it your own, you have that option, too.  You can play all the games from popfly.com/sports. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Play-The-Olympics-With-Popfly Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:26:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Play-The-Olympics-With-Popfly Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Play-The-Olympics-With-Popfly/RSS Olympics Popfly popfly game creator This Week on C9: Live Mesh, Popfly, Microspotting, Poker bots & more

 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-June-20 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 your Silverlight.js file for Firefox 3 (via Tim Heuer) DeepEarth: Virtual Earth + Deep Zoom (via Jamie Thomson) Ariel Stallings from Microspotting designs cool I am the empire t-shirts Video clip of Richard Sprague demoing Response Point and discussing how they used research to build voice grammars Sourceforge Community Awards will include Codeplex projects Soma discusses the Secure Development Lifecycle and how Microsoft uses it internally Golf Course powered by Virtual Earth 3D (via Mark Brown) Video clip of Tiger Electronics AMP robot Brian's Pick of the Week: James Devlin: Building a Real-world Poker bot with C++ (via Avi Pilosof) Dan's Pick of the Week: Walt Mossberg reviews GoGo: In-flight Wifi which will be coming to Virgin and American After the end, Dan, Brian, and Laura Foy unwind at TechEd   1457 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-June-20 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:04:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-June-20 Dan Fernandez Dan Fernandez 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-C9-June-20/RSS CodePlex Internet Explorer LiveMesh Microspotting Popfly Silverlight Virtual Earth A Big List of Popfly Games 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 that speaks to the ease of using the Popfly game creator, I suppose.
Some of these games are pretty funny, too, featuring characters like an axe-throwing baby, a farting monster, a hungry pea, evil apples, and more. But I'm still a fan of the "Arrington in Space" one myself. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/A-Big-List-of-Popfly-Games 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 that speaks to the ease of using the Popfly game creator, I suppose.Some of these games are pretty funny, too, featuring characters like an axe-throwing baby, a farting monster, a hungry pea, evil apples, and more. But I'm still a fan of the "Arrington in Space" one myself. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/A-Big-List-of-Popfly-Games Tue, 27 May 2008 21:09:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/A-Big-List-of-Popfly-Games Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/A-Big-List-of-Popfly-Games/RSS Games Popfly How To Build Games With the Popfly Game Creator 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 Creator tools. However, if you're a more visual learner, there are also several video tutorials available that walk you through making games using the Popfly Game Creator. These include the following videos:

Let us know about your game!

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/How-To-Build-Games-With-the-Popfly-Game-Creator 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 Creator tools. However, if you're a more visual learner, there are also several video tutorials available that walk you through making games using the Popfly Game Creator. These include the following videos: Build a Space Shooter GameMontage of Games Overview of the Design AreaEditing an Actor's AppearanceLet us know about your game! http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/How-To-Build-Games-With-the-Popfly-Game-Creator Wed, 07 May 2008 14:13:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/How-To-Build-Games-With-the-Popfly-Game-Creator Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/How-To-Build-Games-With-the-Popfly-Game-Creator/RSS Games Popfly game creator This Week on Channel 9: May 2nd

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 with Brian and Dan (6:40 - 10:27)
- Jacqueline discusses our Maker Faire presence in San Mateo (10:27 - 14:24)
- Office Labs launches Community Clips and Search Commands (14:24 - 16:50)
- Dan and Jacqueline relate their Facebook experience (16:50 - 18:28)
- Steve Gordon and Chris Parker whiteboard how the Windows Live Messenger Facebook application works (18:28 - 19:59)
- WPF Transitionals CodePlex project makes it simple to add animations to WPF apps (19:59 - 21:33)
- Beth Massi shows how to screen scrape HTML using VB LINQ, found via Coding4Fun (21:33 - 23:30)
- LINQ for SQL Compact Edition Codeplex Project, found via Greg Duncan  (23:30 - 25:02)
- Dan's Pick of the Week: Ford Sync-style Speech Macros for anything (25:02 - 26:40)
- Jacqueline relates how her and Doug pranked my office and how I paid them back by "foiling" their office (26:40 - 29:35)
- Jacqueline's Pick of the Week: Channel 10's Popfly Game Creator video: Punch Out auditions (29:35 - 32:31)

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-Channel-9-May-2nd 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 with Brian and Dan (6:40 - 10:27) - Jacqueline discusses our Maker Faire presence in San Mateo (10:27 - 14:24) - Office Labs launches Community Clips and Search Commands (14:24 - 16:50) - Dan and Jacqueline relate their Facebook experience (16:50 - 18:28) - Steve Gordon and Chris Parker whiteboard how the Windows Live Messenger Facebook application works (18:28 - 19:59) - WPF Transitionals CodePlex project makes it simple to add animations to WPF apps (19:59 - 21:33) - Beth Massi shows how to screen scrape HTML using VB LINQ, found via Coding4Fun (21:33 - 23:30) - LINQ for SQL Compact Edition Codeplex Project, found via Greg Duncan  (23:30 - 25:02) - Dan's Pick of the Week: Ford Sync-style Speech Macros for anything (25:02 - 26:40) - Jacqueline relates how her and Doug pranked my office and how I paid them back by "foiling" their office (26:40 - 29:35) - Jacqueline's Pick of the Week: Channel 10's Popfly Game Creator video: Punch Out auditions (29:35 - 32:31) - Low res version - MP4 version 1951 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-Channel-9-May-2nd Fri, 02 May 2008 17:59:54 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-Channel-9-May-2nd Dan Fernandez Dan Fernandez 6 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/This-Week-on-Channel-9-May-2nd/RSS Popfly SQL Server Windows Live Messenger WPF Popfly Game Creator: Meet the Team, Make a Game 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 you're not a dev, don't worry about it - give it a try. There is a function to upload pictures to Popfly, but I was referencing photos I uploaded to Skydrive with no problem. Remember, if you use PNGs for your images you can have transparent backgrounds.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Popfly-Game-Creator-How-It-Works 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 you're not a dev, don't worry about it - give it a try. There is a function to upload pictures to Popfly, but I was referencing photos I uploaded to Skydrive with no problem. Remember, if you use PNGs for your images you can have transparent backgrounds. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Popfly-Game-Creator-How-It-Works Fri, 02 May 2008 17:14:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Popfly-Game-Creator-How-It-Works Larry Larsen Larry Larsen 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/LarryLarsen/Popfly-Game-Creator-How-It-Works/RSS Game Design Popfly casual games popfly game creator Popfly: On Set with Halo Master Chief
Thank goodness there's Popfly.

Check out the Full Video Here. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Halo We all know the success that Master Chief has had with Halo but sometimes you just need a change.  I mean, saving the Earth and all is cool but what about just a simple life.  One that doesn't involve the covenant or cortana.  What about just a life with Latte's and nice health care benefits?Thank goodness there's Popfly.Check out the Full Video Here. 34 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Halo Fri, 02 May 2008 15:28:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Halo Tina Tina 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Halo/RSS Popfly Popfly: On Set with Mario
Thank goodness there's Popfly.

Check out the Full Video Here. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Mario Oh Mario...what a sensitive little guy.  We hired Mario because of his experience.  He's been a Doctor, he's been Super...but what we didn't know is that he's tired of it all.  His agent mentioned that over the past couple of years Mario has been a bit tougher to work with.  He's a great guys, nice guy, just a sensitive guy. Thank goodness there's Popfly.Check out the Full Video Here. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Mario Fri, 02 May 2008 15:26:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Mario Tina Tina 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Mario/RSS Popfly Popfly: On Set with the Tetris Pieces
Thank goodness for Popfly.

Check out the Full Video Here. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Tetris Working with "real" tetris pieces just sucks.  I'm serious.  First off, I ordered four pieces but apparantely the square and T piece were on strike because of the high gas prices.  I know, makes no sense to me either.  Anyway, you would think that after working together for so many years everybody could just get along.  Not so much.  Thank goodness for Popfly.Check out the Full Video Here. 50 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Tetris Fri, 02 May 2008 15:26:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Tetris Tina Tina 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Tetris/RSS Popfly tetris Popfly: On Set for the Gangsta Game
Thank goodness there's Popfly.

Check out the Full Video Here. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Gangsta-Game Working with thugs isn't all it's cracked up to be.  And don't get me started on female pimps, they're the worst.  We hired a thug and pimp to help create our gangsta game and well, they were just totally into other things.  We needed them to sell crack, and throw bricks through windows maybe even backhand a few hookers...but we got nothing.Thank goodness there's Popfly.Check out the Full Video Here. 46 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Gangsta-Game Fri, 02 May 2008 15:25:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Gangsta-Game Tina Tina 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Gangsta-Game/RSS Popfly Popfly: On Set with Frogger
Thank goodness there's Popfly.

Check out the Full Video Here. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Frogger I'm sure you've all heard by now that Frogger has been on a downward spiral since he was booted as sexiest frog alive by Kermit.  He started drinking, cursing and ran off to Vegas for a quickie marriage with Peaches.  Who can blame him I mean...is Kermit really that sexy?Thank goodness there's Popfly.Check out the Full Video Here. 31 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Frogger Fri, 02 May 2008 15:24:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Frogger Tina Tina 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Frogger/RSS Popfly Popfly: On the Set of Pong
Thank goodness there's Popfly.

Check out the Full Video Here. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Pong People make fun of Pong all the time.  Oh, it's just two paddles and a ball - it's boring, you don't kill anybody and there's no animated hero that is preparing to save the world.  Well, Pong is actually brilliant.  It's simple, addictive and is probably older than you are.  But, trying to make the game is no easy task especially when the wrong ball shows up.Thank goodness there's Popfly.Check out the Full Video Here. 44 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Pong Fri, 02 May 2008 15:23:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Pong Tina Tina 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Pong/RSS Popfly Making Games...before Popfly Game Creator Popfly Game Creator offers a fun and easy way to create and share personalized games.  Creating a game with Popfly is as simple as selecting actors, specifying a scene, and then defining behaviors that bring the game to life.  With just a few clicks and some creativity  you can author your first game- all without writing any code!

But wait!  What was life like before Popfly Game Creator?  We have all heard horror stories about what these legendary game characters were like to work with....but is it true?  Was creating games before Popfly really as hard as people say.  See for yourself. 

Links to individual popfly pieces:
Frogger
Pong
Punchout Auditions
Mario
Tetris
Gangsta
Halo

Check out some more popfly videos over at popfly. 
]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Game-Creator The Popfly Game Creator offers a fun and easy way to create and share personalized games.  Creating a game with Popfly is as simple as selecting actors, specifying a scene, and then defining behaviors that bring the game to life.  With just a few clicks and some creativity  you can author your first game- all without writing any code!But wait!  What was life like before Popfly Game Creator?  We have all heard horror stories about what these legendary game characters were like to work with....but is it true?  Was creating games before Popfly really as hard as people say.  See for yourself.  Links to individual popfly pieces:FroggerPongPunchout AuditionsMarioTetrisGangsta HaloCheck out some more popfly videos over at popfly.  337 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Game-Creator Fri, 02 May 2008 15:02:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Game-Creator Tina Tina 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Tina/Popfly-Game-Creator/RSS Popfly Seattle Popfly Game Creator - Criando jogos da forma fácil lembra do Popfly? Ele é um conjunto de ferramentas no estilo WYSIWYG para criação de mashups e Web sites. Como mandatório no mundo Web 2.0, ele também tem uma comunidade própria onde seus usuários votam pelos melhores Web sites e mash-ups, compartilham suas criações e comentam livremente. O bacana do Popfly é que ele é super fácil de usar e seus mashups podem ser exportados para Sidebar do Windows Vista, para o Facebook, para o Digg, para o Reddit, ou até mesmo como iframe para incorporar em sites. Meu amigo René de Paula adora o Popfly e usa-o bastante. Veja um exemplo legal aqui no blog dele de como é possível agregar vários fontes de informações ou serviços dentro de um gadget que você incorpora no set site.

Bom, a novidade saindo do Maker Faire hoje é que o time do Popfly liberou uma nova função que é sensacional - Popfly Game Creator. Além de criar mashups e Web sites, agora você também pode criar jogos simples e divertidos dentro do Popfly. Você não precisa saber nada de programação nem de design (pra vocês eu recomendo o XNA) para criar um jogo. Em 3 passos você consegue criar seu primeira obra prima de vídeo game.

Selecione os personagens que você quer no seu jogo. Há 400 personagens diferentes disponíveis em categorias como pessoas, veículos, super poderes, e outras. Se não achar algo que agrade, você pode criar e importar para o Popfly.




Escolha o cenário. Há vários cenários para escolher e também efeitos sonoros para criar um clima bacana no jogo. Depois você posiciona os seus personagens nesse cenário.

 


Dê vida ao seu jogo. Agora você especifica alguns comportamentos que os personagens e o cenário terão. Com a interface WYSIWYG do Popfly, é fácil de determinar interações, eventos, e movimentos sem ter que programar uma sequer linha de código. E para quem quiser maior controle, é possível customizar essas ações com o editor embutido de JavaScript.

 


Já tem um vídeo (em inglês) online para quem está curioso. E a equipe vai lançar mais vídeos tutoriais ao longo dessa semana.

O Game Creator deve entrar no ar até o final do dia 2 de maio.

Fonte: http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/default.aspx 

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Galileu/Popfly-Game-Creator-Criando-jogos-da-maneira-fcil Alguém lembra do Popfly? Ele é um conjunto de ferramentas no estilo WYSIWYG para criação de mashups e Web sites. Como mandatório no mundo Web 2.0, ele também tem uma comunidade própria onde seus usuários votam pelos melhores Web sites e mash-ups, compartilham suas criações e comentam livremente. O bacana do Popfly é que ele é super fácil de usar e seus mashups podem ser exportados para Sidebar do Windows Vista, para o Facebook, para o Digg, para o Reddit, ou até mesmo como iframe para incorporar em sites. Meu amigo René de Paula adora o Popfly e usa-o bastante. Veja um exemplo legal aqui no blog dele de como é possível agregar vários fontes de informações ou serviços dentro de um gadget que você incorpora no set site.Bom, a novidade saindo do Maker Faire hoje é que o time do Popfly liberou uma nova função que é sensacional - Popfly Game Creator. Além de criar mashups e Web sites, agora você também pode criar jogos simples e divertidos dentro do Popfly. Você não precisa saber nada de programação nem de design (pra vocês eu recomendo o XNA) para criar um jogo. Em 3 passos você consegue criar seu primeira obra prima de vídeo game.Selecione os personagens que você quer no seu jogo. Há 400 personagens diferentes disponíveis em categorias como pessoas, veículos, super poderes, e outras. Se não achar algo que agrade, você pode criar e importar para o Popfly. Escolha o cenário. Há vários cenários para escolher e também efeitos sonoros para criar um clima bacana no jogo. Depois você posiciona os seus personagens nesse cenário.  Dê vida ao seu jogo. Agora você especifica alguns comportamentos que os personagens e o cenário terão. Com a interface WYSIWYG do Popfly, é fácil de determinar interações, eventos, e movimentos sem ter que programar uma sequer linha de código. E para quem quiser maior controle, é possível customizar essas ações com o editor embutido de JavaScript.  Já tem um vídeo (em inglês) online para quem está curioso. E a equ 474 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Galileu/Popfly-Game-Creator-Criando-jogos-da-maneira-fcil Fri, 02 May 2008 11:49:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Galileu/Popfly-Game-Creator-Criando-jogos-da-maneira-fcil Galileu Vieira Galileu Vieira 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Galileu/Popfly-Game-Creator-Criando-jogos-da-maneira-fcil/RSS Popfly popfly game creator Popfly in Moonlight Moonlight is a project designed to allow Linux computers the ability to run Silverlight applications. Just recently, blogger Daniele Muscetta installed Moonlight following these instructions, which apparently allowed her to get Popfly up-and-running on her Ubuntu installation, something that Popfly guy John Montgomery noticed here.

To learn more about Moonlight, check out the project homepage or this blog post. You can also see it in action here (video).

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Popfly-in-Moonlight Moonlight is a project designed to allow Linux computers the ability to run Silverlight applications. Just recently, blogger Daniele Muscetta installed Moonlight following these instructions, which apparently allowed her to get Popfly up-and-running on her Ubuntu installation, something that Popfly guy John Montgomery noticed here. To learn more about Moonlight, check out the project homepage or this blog post. You can also see it in action here (video). http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Popfly-in-Moonlight Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:05:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Popfly-in-Moonlight Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 7 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Popfly-in-Moonlight/RSS Moonlight Popfly Popfly Update! 2 to 6 times better performance when you load up an existing mashup! Nice work, guys. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Popfly-Update You may not have noticed but Popfly just got updated. It wasn't one of those "check out all the new bells and whistles" kind of updates, though - it was one of those "behind-the-scenes" kind of updates instead. So what did they do? Besides fixing a few bugs, Popfly got an improved caching system. What this means is that they've made some changes to Popfly to take better advantage of the browser cache which leads to anywhere from 2 to 6 times better performance when you load up an existing mashup! Nice work, guys. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Popfly-Update Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:19:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Popfly-Update Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/Popfly-Update/RSS Popfly New Popfly Features announced a new version of Popfly which brought several changes to the tool. Most notably, was the edition of a data source editor which lets you bring your own data into the mashup designer. Your data, which needs to be in .CSV format, is shown in yellow blocks in the program. The update also offers an improved search interface, the ability to upload images and other files to your block, comments on profile pages, better ways to invite friends, and a help wiki. There are also new blocks available now, like the MovingSlideShow block for smooth panning and zooming transitions and the RSSList which would be great for use in blog's sidebar. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/New-Popfly-Features A little over a week ago, the Popfly team announced a new version of Popfly which brought several changes to the tool. Most notably, was the edition of a data source editor which lets you bring your own data into the mashup designer. Your data, which needs to be in .CSV format, is shown in yellow blocks in the program. The update also offers an improved search interface, the ability to upload images and other files to your block, comments on profile pages, better ways to invite friends, and a help wiki. There are also new blocks available now, like the MovingSlideShow block for smooth panning and zooming transitions and the RSSList which would be great for use in blog's sidebar. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/New-Popfly-Features Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:20:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/New-Popfly-Features Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 3 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/New-Popfly-Features/RSS Popfly All-A-Twitter: Twitter+Silverlight, Twitter+Popfly Michael Palermo, who works with the development team at Interface Technical Training, has done a video where he demonstrates how to create a Silverlight app that displays Twitter messages from various Twitter users.  The video shows you how to make calls to the open source Twitter API via AJAX Page Methods, and display the results with faded text effects. You can watch the video and download the code.

Meanwhile, Steve Clayton writes a Popfly/Twitter mashup in about a minute and posts it on his blog. In the comments, Rohan Thomas writes that he found a way to post the widget on his MSDN blog. You can see it here in the left-hand column.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/All-A-Twitter-TwitterSilverlight-TwitterPopfly Michael Palermo, who works with the development team at Interface Technical Training, has done a video where he demonstrates how to create a Silverlight app that displays Twitter messages from various Twitter users.  The video shows you how to make calls to the open source Twitter API via AJAX Page Methods, and display the results with faded text effects. You can watch the video and download the code. Meanwhile, Steve Clayton writes a Popfly/Twitter mashup in about a minute and posts it on his blog. In the comments, Rohan Thomas writes that he found a way to post the widget on his MSDN blog. You can see it here in the left-hand column. http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/All-A-Twitter-TwitterSilverlight-TwitterPopfly Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:46:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/All-A-Twitter-TwitterSilverlight-TwitterPopfly Sarah Perez Sarah Perez 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/coolstuff/All-A-Twitter-TwitterSilverlight-TwitterPopfly/RSS Popfly Silverlight Twitter Code To Live: Mark on Web 2.0 in the Classroom Josh Holmes had the pleasure of catching up with Mark Frydenberg (aka CheckMark, a Senior Lecturer at Bentley College in Boston Waltham, MA. He has an interesting take on teaching computer science and is leveraging Web 2.0 techniques to teach his students about computer science. His efforts in the classroom were written up in this New York Times Article. Also check out his Popfly interview with Bob Familiar at http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=365558...

This was filmed during the Boston Remix back in October. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Code+To+Live/Code-To-Live-Mark-on-Web-20-in-the-Classroom Josh Holmes had the pleasure of catching up with Mark Frydenberg (aka CheckMark, a Senior Lecturer at Bentley College in Boston Waltham, MA. He has an interesting take on teaching computer science and is leveraging Web 2.0 techniques to teach his students about computer science. His efforts in the classroom were written up in this New York Times Article. Also check out his Popfly interview with Bob Familiar at http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=365558... This was filmed during the Boston Remix back in October. 424 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Code+To+Live/Code-To-Live-Mark-on-Web-20-in-the-Classroom Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:49:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Code+To+Live/Code-To-Live-Mark-on-Web-20-in-the-Classroom joshholmes joshholmes 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Code+To+Live/Code-To-Live-Mark-on-Web-20-in-the-Classroom/RSS Popfly Programming Shakespearian Popfly mega lulz

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/Shakespearian-Popfly mega lulz http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/Shakespearian-Popfly Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:51:13 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/Shakespearian-Popfly Nick Hodge Nick Hodge 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge/Shakespearian-Popfly/RSS Popfly Popflyインタビュー Part 2: 日本の担当者が語るPopfly spaceやPopfly explorer This is Japanese conversation only.  English subtitle is not available for this video.  Umada-san talks about Popfly space and Popfly explorer with demo.
The video duration is 19 min 39 sec.

Microsoftが新たに提供をはじめたPopflyについて、日本の担当者である馬田さんにインタビューしました。19分39秒のビデオです。720*480の解像度で出力しているので、[Full screen]をクリックした方が見やすいかもしれません。Silverlightをfull screen modeにした場合は、一瞬動画が停止したように見られますが、バッファリングをお待ちいただくと数秒後にビデオが見られると思います。
Popfly spaceやPopfly explorerについてデモを交えてお話いただいてます。

Popfly explorerは、Visual StudioとPopflyでのプロジェクト共有に使えます。Visual Studio 2005とVisual Studio 2008で利用できます。詳しくは、次のURLをご覧ください。
http://www.microsoft.com/japan/msdn/vstudio/popfly/explorer.aspx

Popflyを始めるには、
http://www.popfly.ms/
へアクセスし、お使いのWindows Live IDでSign inしてください。

Popflyについての日本語での説明は、
http://www.microsoft.com/japan/msdn/vstudio/popfly/
をご覧ください。

馬田さんはMSDNブログを展開しており、Visual Studio ExpressやPopflyの情報を提供しています。http://blogs.msdn.com/tumada/　をご覧ください。
Silverlightについては、http://silverlight.net (英語)　や　http://www.microsoft.com/japan/msdn/silverlight/ (日本語)をご覧ください。

前回のインタビューは、
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=352955
で公開してます。

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/c9Japan/Popfly-Part-2-Popfly-spacePopfly-explorer This is Japanese conversation only.  English subtitle is not available for this video.  Umada-san talks about Popfly space and Popfly explorer with demo.The video duration is 19 min 39 sec.Microsoftが新たに提供をはじめたPopflyについて、日本の担当者である馬田さんにインタビューしました。19分39秒のビデオです。720*480の解像度で出力しているので、[Full screen]をクリックした方が見やすいかもしれません。Silverlightをfull screen modeにした場合は、一瞬動画が停止したように見られますが、バッファリングをお待ちいただくと数秒後にビデオが見られると思います。Popfly spaceやPopfly explorerについてデモを交えてお話いただいてます。 Popfly explorerは、Visual StudioとPopflyでのプロジェクト共有に使えます。Visual Studio 2005とVisual Studio 2008で利用できます。詳しくは、次のURLをご覧ください。http://www.microsoft.com/japan/msdn/vstudio/popfly/explorer.aspx Popflyを始めるには、http://www.popfly.ms/へアクセスし、お使いのWindows Live IDでSign inしてください。 Popflyについての日本語での説明は、http://www.microsoft.com/japan/msdn/vstudio/popfly/をご覧ください。 馬田さんはMSDNブログを展開しており、Visual Studio ExpressやPopflyの情報を提供しています。http://blogs.msdn.com/tumada/　をご覧ください。Silverlightについては、http://silverlight.net (英語)　や　http://www.microsoft.com/japan/msdn/silverlight/ (日本語)をご覧ください。前回のインタビューは、http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=352955で公開してます。 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/c9Japan/Popfly-Part-2-Popfly-spacePopfly-explorer Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:33:27 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/c9Japan/Popfly-Part-2-Popfly-spacePopfly-explorer Akira Onishi Akira Onishi 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/c9Japan/Popfly-Part-2-Popfly-spacePopfly-explorer/RSS Community Japan Popfly Silverlight Visual Studio Visual Studio 2008