Hey Poptropicans! For anyone who’s ever had a Poptropica island idea—you can now make it happen for real with IslandEngine, a new tool by the developer of Poptropica.love! 👀🩵
IslandEngine only works on Windows computers, and the Poptropica islands it makes can only be played offline. 🪟 You can create your own islands or copy from an existing AS2 or AS3 island, which use their original scripts and XML. (This refers to ActionScript 2 or 3, the Flash coding languages used to develop most Poptropica islands.)
As the developer, No-Departure242 aka 42-AH shared on Reddit, “You can make a new AS3 or AS2 island with rooms, characters, dialogue, items, and puzzles, then export it as a Windows app.” ⬆️🎁 The instructions are on IslandEngine’s GitHub page and are a bit technical, but covers everything you’ll need to know, from download and setup, to building islands with existing assets or writing your own code, and exporting your masterpiece once it’s ready to be played. ✨
42-AH also notes that his name as shown on GitHub is Andrew, but bears no relation to the Andrew who made Poptropica Legacy. However, IslandEngine does use game files from the Poptropica archive on the Internet Archive, which is linked by the Poptropica Legacy maintainer.
For any issues, 42-AH hopes you may be able to code your way around them. 🪲 But as always, please report feedback and bugs to [email protected] so the project can keep improving.
We’ve yet to see any custom islands created from IslandEngine, but we look forward to checking them out when the time comes! 🤩
For island ideas, check out our My Dream Island series here on the PHB. And if you’ve made anything or found any good ones, share with us in the comments or on the PHC, our Discord server! 🏝️🖱️
