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Pop Quiz: Which Tribe Are You?

September 5, 2024September 6, 2024 LJ

Hey Poptropicans, this fun quiz to find your tribe was put together by Unknown Spider as part of our recent Tribal Tournament. Enjoy!

Note: Keep track of your answers to get your results at the end!

1) Which quality describes you best?

A) Adventurous
B) Fierce
C) Inventive
D) Curious

E) Confident
F) Fearless
G) Elegant
H) Outgoing

2) What’s your favorite color?

A) Green
B) Red
C) Yellow
D) Blue

E) Black
F) Purple
G) Gold
H) Orange

3) What’s your favorite island?

A) Mission Atlantis
B) Steamworks
C) PoptropiCon
D) Mystery of the Map

E) Skullduggery
F) Crisis Caverns
G) Ghost Story
H) Game Show

4) Who’s your favorite villain?

A) Captain Crawfish
B) El Mustachio Grande
C) Omegon
D) Gretchen Grimlock

E) Red Baron
F) Zomberries
G) Ringmaster Raven
H) E. Vile

5) What would you have as a pet?

A) Octopus
B) Phoenix
C) Wasp
D) Unicorn

E) Parrot
F) Spider
G) Raven
H) Robot

6) Where would your dream home be?

A) Underwater
B) Somewhere warm
C) Laboratory
D) Wherever your adventure takes you

E) Pirate ship
F) Underground
G) Castle
H) High-tech mansion

7) What common feared have your conquered?

A) Sea creatures
B) Fire
C) Bees & wasps
D) Getting lost

E) Swimming
F) Spiders
G) Heights
H) Crowds

Results

Mostly As = Flying Squid 🦑
Mostly Bs = Wildfire 🔥
Mostly Cs = Yellowjackets 🐝
Mostly Ds = Pathfinders 🧭

Mostly Es = Black Flags 🏴‍☠️
Mostly Fs = Nightcrawlers 🐛
Mostly Gs = Seraphim 🪽
Mostly Hs = Nanobots 🦀

Hope you enjoyed this guest post by Unknown Spider. If you did, you might also enjoy other games we’ve hosted, like our Pop the Difference series.

The Poptropica Help Blog welcomes interesting Poptropica insights from anyone in the Poptropica community with thoughts to share. Interested in writing for the PHB? We’d love to hear from you!

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Funktropica – Poptropica Mod for Friday Night Funkin’ ⬆️🎵⬇️

August 18, 2024August 17, 2024 Slanted Fish

Hey Poptropicans! Any rhythm game players in the house?

Discover Funktropica — a Poptropica mod for the popular musical rhythm game Friday Night Funkin’ (FnF)! Check out the gameplay:

In Friday Night Funkin’ (download here), you use the arrow keys to hit the right keys as they come up on screen. A similar game mechanism has even been seen in some of Poptropica’s ad games. With FnF, the goal is for the main character, Boyfriend, to impress the ex-rockstar dad of his love interest by proving his power in music.

The Funktropica mod puts a Poptropica twist to FnF, giving Boyfriend a Poptropica makeover and facing him off against iconic Pop characters and backdrops: Betty Jetty in the sky, Dr. Hare in the carrot factory, Greg Heffley at the boardwalk, Binary Bard in his castle — plus a few unknown Poptropicans, including a blank template one in Mocktropica.

Funktropica was developed by Eozchar, who writes in the mod description, “I’ve been doing this every summer since 2021, and honestly this skill I’ve learned has helped me greatly.” The first version, ‘Vs Poptropican’, launched in 2021, with yearly updates since, including the recent ‘Funktropica’ version released just this month.

The game’s music consists of several original electronic beats, including a remix of the Poptropica Overture soundtrack in the game menu. There’s even an impressive overworld with an island map taking you to the various scenes in Funktropica!

To play, you’ll need to download FnF first. Once you have FnF, you can then download Funktropica for some Poptropica rhythm jams. Enjoy!

~🐠

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No access to Poptropica accounts ⚠️

August 17, 2024August 22, 2024 Slanted Fish

UPDATE #3 – Aug 22: Poptropica accounts are back again.

UPDATE #2 – Aug 21: Poptropica accounts are down again.

UPDATE #1 – Aug 21: Poptropica accounts are BACK, one week after the issue first appeared! 🙌 But saving outfits still does not work, which has been the case for some time now. The original news post is below.

GAME-BREAKING NEWS: Poptropica accounts are down.

Earlier this week, players across the Poptropica fandom, including on our Discord server, the PHC, began reporting that they could not log into their game accounts, hosted on Coolmath Games on both desktop and mobile. Attempts to log in only result an endless loading screen.

The loading screen players are stuck on when attempting to log in — ironically reminding players to log in daily.

From this Reddit post, there are also reports of the paid Poptropica Steam bundle not loading. Fortunately, the would-be players were able to get refunded by Steam, but it’s still a massive loss for Pop playability.

You can still play Poptropica by selecting a new character, activating the usual Home Island quest. However, attempts to save the new account will only result in error, no matter what untaken username you try.

You can still play Pop on a new ‘account’

It’s been several days with this issue not resolving, with no sign of acknowledgement from Coolmath Games on socials, so it remains unclear if they are even aware or planning to address the situation.

As of now, besides starting afresh with an account that can’t be saved, it seems the only way to truly access Poptropica is through the unofficial Flashpoint curation. Find out more in our Old Islands Guide here!

There is a small hope for the fate of our accounts: according to a Reddit post from Pop player lexly1234, you can revive the old Avatar Studio with Ruffle, a Flash emulator, to check that your account still exists in the depths of Poptropica’s files. But while they may exist, we can’t login. 😔

Here’s hoping for an eventual fix. 🤞 But for now, if you’re looking for some Poptropica fun, check out our PHB Tribal Tournament (Poptropica Olympics!) going on throughout August. 🏋️‍♀️

And of course, continue to enjoy the game through Flashpoint!

~ 🐠

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PHB presents: “Things to never say to someone who just came out” 🧅

June 10, 2024June 9, 2024 Agent Bubbles

(This post is ripped off-er, lovingly inspired by an article written by parody news platform “The Onion”. Please note the original does contain some contain some mature content!)

With the approach of June and many Pride-themed events, many Poptropicans may be unsure of how to respond to their friends in a way that makes them feel safe and supported. While we cannot speak for every situation, here are some pretty universal things not to do:

1. “Behold! The oracle spoke the truth!”

You can be supportive without mentioning some ancient woman’s prophesy.

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Poppies 2024: Share your ideas! 🎤🏆

June 1, 2024May 31, 2024 Agent Bubbles

Hello Poppie-tropicans! This is Smart Bubbles, and this year I’ll be in charge of organizing the Poppies, our annual Poptropica fan awards in conjunction with the PHB’s birthday in July. 🥳

However, with Poptropica no longer receiving updates in the foreseeable future, we risk getting repetitive with the future of the awards. It’s not a fair event if we do a “Best Island” every year and my bot–I mean loyal readers–all vote for Astro-Knights each time, is it?

Go Go Robot: Just some of the ideas that would eventually become the Steam Robot costume in the Poptropica Store.

So we’re opening up the floor to your ideas! What suggestions do you have for award categories? Should we keep our original focus with a mix of both gameplay topics (characters, islands) and fandom content (fanart, fanfiction)? Or should we shift to a purely fandom focus, with more detailed categories such as splitting fanart into comics, animations, illustrations, etc?

This Google form will be open until July 7 to share your feedback, or you can also drop a comment on this post. Act fast — the fate of the Poppies rests in your hands with non-opposable Poptropican thumbs!