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Happy Mother's Day! (Games for Mom)
11 May 08 06:56 PM

Look Mom, I made you something: Happy Mother's Day! For those of you who are not my mom, the above game is my take on Plato's Allegory of the Cave (my Mom is a Philosophy and Religious Studies professor at the University of Idaho ). I made the game using Read More...

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One week of Popfly Game Creator
09 May 08 05:31 PM

It’s now been one week since we first released Popfly Game Creator to the public at Maker Faire and on the web on May 2nd. I thought I’d take today to point out some of the cool games that people have made. User zbuff001 made this challenging set of minigames: Read More...

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Rainbow Duckies - Great post on creating games with grandchildren
07 May 08 08:18 PM

Michael Leonard is another engineer on the Popfly team and just posted a great entry on the experience he had testing the Popfly Game Creator with his granddaughters. It really is a great example of the interactions you can have when you're not just playing Read More...

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Capping your actor’s speed
07 May 08 03:23 PM

If you’ve been playing around with Popfly Game Creator long enough, you’ve probably noticed that if actors get going fast enough, they can sometimes manage to fly right through a wall.  There are some things you can do to get around this like making Read More...

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Mailbag: Even Easier Music
07 May 08 01:36 PM

Reader Michael Sterling pointed out today (or rather late last night) a neat tool that lets you create music even more easily than with Finale: For people who want even easier music creation so are willing to give up some of the nuance that Finale offers, Read More...

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Introduction
02 May 08 11:30 AM

Hi, I’m Ben Anderson, a developer on the Microsoft Non-Professional Tools team. I recently joined the team to work on the newly released Popfly Game Creator . Prior to that I worked on the Visual C++ team and before that, I went to Carleton College . Read More...

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