Category: Social Media

Social Media

Introducing… PHC 2.0!

Slanted Fish

What’s chatting, chatropicans? This post is brought to you by a handful of us from the PHC!

Recently we posted about possibly moving our PHB hangout, the Poptropica Help Chat (PHC), to a different chat host: Discord. Though we’ve been using Xat for years, we found the much newer Discord to offer more to the chat experience overall. However, we left it up to you guys to vote – and over the past week, there emerged a clear winner… and by POP-ular demand… we’re moving to Discord!

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In addition to a much cleaner look, the new PHC has tons of cool features, such as being able to private message anyone (even offline) and it’s not as laggy as the Xat chat system. It’s also a great place to share artwork, theories, and to get to know fellow Poptropicans in the community.

When you first arrive, you’ll land on #tutorial, which will explain the rules and other basics that are good to know (channel guides, rules, how to use emojis, and more!). You can go back to the tutorial guide anytime, but you can also check out the many other different channels we have to talk about whatever interests you!

The new PHC’s different channels, such as #main and #art, helps everyone stay on topic, find other people with the same interests, and have multiple, yet organized conversations at the same time. There’s even a #lulz channel where you can spam and post memes to your heart’s content, as long as it maintains our guidelines of course! And unlike Xat, even newcomers can post links, pictures, and gifs, with more ease than ever before.

But what about Xat, you may ask? Well, it’s still there, but we’re now directing people over to Discord instead. The official PHC is now on Discord, meaning we’ll host parties on Discord now and the PHB will no longer link to Xat. That being said, you can still go on Xat if you so desire, but Xat will no longer be moderated. We’ve updated the Xat page with information about the new PHC (on Discord), for new users who may stumble upon it or users who haven’t been on in a while.

Everyone’s been having so much fun here on Discord – and you can too! While you don’t need a Discord account to go on, it’s a good idea to make an account so you can change your profile picture and more. Plus, you can even download the Discord app on various desktop or mobile devices to take the fun with you! Pop in today, Poptropicans!

We hope you enjoy PHC 2.0, and we’ll look forward to seeing you there in the future! 😀

–from the PHC community on Discord

Advertisements, Graphic Novels, Social Media

Zeus, Zoos, and Trailers Too

gianthawkpoptropica

Greetings Hawk-tropicans! This is Giant Hawk speaking, and today, I have quite the variety of animation-related news for you all!

And what better way to start off then a gif of everyone’s favorite Greek god Zeus? ‘Nuff said.

Okay, yeah – that’s pretty cool and all, but what other animations have the Creators thrown at us? Turns out, there’s also currently an ad on Home Island for the upcoming animated film Zootopia, with two games. Thanks to Hyper Gamer for the tip and picture below!

In Catch the Weasel, you are to race Judy to the finish line. You get the Flash Follower prize for winning. And in Save Nick, you control Nick and have to control him to not hit obstacles. You get the Judy Patrol prize, when is an animation of Judy riding her police car.

By the way: This is the first ad to be in the SUI (sound-updated island) format!

zootopia ad

We’ve also gotten two new trailer videos for the print version of the Mystery of the Map graphic novel! Check them out:

I don’t know about you guys, but I would suggest preparing your wallets for the graphic novel’s upcoming release on March 1st!

And speaking of upcoming releases (see what I did there), Poptropica’s mysterious new tutorial island seems to be right around the corner, as indicated by this photo of some kids at the Poptropica Headquarters testing it out.

So I assume that these kids are the children of the Creators… lucky kids.

Nonetheless, there is one more thing I should mention. If you visit any pre-sound updated (classic) island,  you’ll find that Poptropica has implemented a new map icon.

Once again, thanks to Brave Dolphin for the picture!

What do you all think of the new map icon? And which are you more excited for – the Mystery of the Map graphic novel or the new tutorial island?

Until next time…

— Giant Hawk

Realms, Social Media

Realms Deviated, Skinny Moon Rises

Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans!

As some of you may have noticed, a few days ago, Realms disappeared from the map! A new post on the Creators’ Blog explains what’s going on: they’re fixing a glitch. From the words of the Captain:

Never fear, Poptropicans, because all the Realms you created are safe — they’re only temporarily unavailable. In our latest update to Poptropica, a bug in the code base disabled Realms. We’re actively working on squashing this pesky bug and restoring Realms as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience and will update you as soon as we have more information.

We’re not sure when Realms will be back, but we hope it’s soon! 🙂 Better go enjoy Poptropica’s latest update (Valentine’s Photo Booth) instead – after all, look what it cost to get that up. 😛

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Meanwhile on social media, Skinny Moon/Jessica (Poptropica’s social media person) recently had another spontaneous common room party, where she brought out her pink guitar! We missed it, but Poptropican tweeter Josh (@IcyStorm9) was there and shared a picture.

Speaking of Skinny Moon, I recently drew her Popsona (Poptropica persona) and shared it on Twitter and DeviantArt. Not long after seeing it, she joined DeviantArt as PopGirlJess and became a member of a couple of dA Poptropica groups, including the one the PHB uses, We-Love-Poptropica!

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So if you’re a Poptropica artist (or an aspiring one), you might just see her around the DeviantArt community, especially if you post to the group We-Love-Poptropica! New members are always welcome, so if you enjoy art (whether it’s commenting or making), definitely check it out. (And visit Jessica’s dA page too, because she loves her fans!) Welcome to DeviantArt, Skinny Moon!

Stay awesome, Poptropicans. 😀

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Daily Pop Sneak Peeks, Social Media, Stolen Snapshots, Web Development

Pop Pals, Stolen Snapshots, and History Happenings

Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans! What’s popping?

February is here, and that means Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! (As well as spring, if a certain psychic groundhog is to be believed.) Recent Daily Pop sneak peeks indicate that we may soon be getting a Valentine’s Photo Booth with some cool props:

Hearty: You’re such a sweetie.
Amore: Stick to the compliments.

Here on the PHB, we’ve added yet another new page under our Cool Stuff tab: Stolen Snapshots, a puzzle game originally from Slippery Raptor’s Blog! This game tests your Poptropica recognition skills with currently over 25 pictures to guess from, and Slip’s site is always coming up with new ones (plus you can guess his current puzzle for a chance to be in his Hall of Fame!). Check it out!

stolensnapshots

In case you missed it, another recent “Cool Stuff” release was a page titled Overview of Poptropica Glitching, where we explore the strangely wonderful world of exploiting Poptropica glitches.

glitchpop

We also recently released (most of) the results from our 2016 PHB Readers’ Survey, with tons of interactive graphs and charts and analyses for each question! Part 2, featuring comments from the response questions, is on its way – so stay tuned.

Plus, our dear Creator-senpais have even commented on the post! With the exception of Jeff Heim’s comment during the PHB Poppies last summer, that’s a first! We’re very honored and hope they continue to do so. 😀 All the more reason for PHB lurkers to join the fun in the comments, eh? 😉

creator senpais

Speaking of making PHB history, the History of the PHB page (under the “About” tab) has now been updated to give a summary on the past year of 2015. Check it out!

It’s also been really cool having you guys share your Poptropica projects and more over on our Poptropica Help subreddit, and if you’re not already on it, we would love to have you join the fun! I’ve even got an Ask Me Anything (AMA) thread going on, so if you have any off-topica questions for me at all, that’s a place to get to know me. 😀 Don’t miss out – sign up and post on our subreddit today!

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Stay popping, Poptropicans!

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Advertisements, Daily Pop, Photo Booth, Social Media

Photo booths, panoramas, and panda-moneum

Brave Tomato

Hey guys, my name is Brave Tomato and here’s my first update post since… Pelican Rock was revealed to be surprise-released later that day… okay, sorry I haven’t posted much. Being a senior in high school is fun.

Well back to the point of the post. As of Tuesday, the Photo Booth is now available on the iOS Poptropica app! Now, anywhere you can get decent reception in the world, you can put your mobile characters and other well known characters on a screen together making up poses, props, and all sorts of hijinks. Sorry, the update is not available for Amazon and Android users yet, but it will be soon!

app photo
In other news, something interesting had been found in the past two Daily Pops:

Olympus has Risen: We’ve always had our heads in the clouds.
Bloon: We feel lighter than air.

… And all of a sudden I feel like a bunch of eyes are looking right at me through the computer screen. Don’t worry, the “Olympus has Risen” one is not what you think, evidenced by the next day’s “Bloon” Daily Pop. This feels like it would be an updated version of an Island Tour video or clip or whatever, giving close-ups of island icons and such. There are comparisons to storyboards not too unlike when they were preparing the Shark Tooth animation. (Speaking of which, what happened to Poptropica TV?)

Finally, the Creators are using their social media connections to create a different kind of advertising – for Kung Fu Panda 3. Players are encouraged to go into the Home Island arcade (common room) wearing the Baby Pandas headpiece, and Pop Creator Skinny Moon will be grabbing screenshots and posting them on Poptropica’s social media. Here’s a tweet with several of the pics she took:

You can find more pics like this on Poptropica’s Twitter feed now, and keep an eye there for if/when Skinny Moon announces when she’ll be in the common room! If you’d like to get in on the action, just know she’s been practicing her head-to-head gaming and has so far achieved a 2-star battle ranking.

So that’s just about what’s new in Poptropica! Smile with those cubs for the camera, snap a Photo Booth pic, and get ready to see another new perspective on the world of Poptropica!

BT out!