Poptropica is shutting down

Did you play Poptropica?

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Nguyen Van Phuoc

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So Poptropica was this 2D online browser RPG where you traveled between different islands and completed different quests. It was also made by Jeff Kinney, the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Recently, the official Poptropica developers confirmed in a Discord message that they would be closing down the game for good at the end of the month.
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While I haven't thought about the game in years, it is sad to see the game shut down. To anyone who's played this game, what was your favorite island? I was always pretty fond of Time Tangled Island.
 
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Did you just post this thread and then delete it to repost it with broken images?

I'll repeat what I tried to post - A shame to see another game go, but it's pretty empty when a studio just says 'yeah thanks guys' the proper thing to do would be to give the source files out so fans can actually continue with it. The game's another truly outdated one from the days of flash, and clearly it didn't have enough of an audience anymore to be sustained so there's no real benefit to keeping that shit proprietary, especially if the company itself is going under which it appears to be.
 
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Toolbox said:
Did you just post this thread and then delete it to repost it with broken images?

I'll repeat what I tried to post - A shame to see another game go, but it's pretty empty when a studio just says 'yeah thanks guys' the proper thing to do would be to give the source files out so fans can actually continue with it. The game's another truly outdated one from the days of flash, and clearly it didn't have enough of an audience anymore to be sustained so there's no real benefit to keeping that shit proprietary, especially if the company itself is going under which it appears to be.
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Yeah, I accidentally fucked up the poll, I wanted to show who voted for what and I couldn't change it, sorry.
It appears there's a way to still play the original Flash version of the game offline, so there's that.
 
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Muttley said:
whatever it was
I bet it was dumb compared to coke music
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Since the OP is pretty barebones, here's some gameplay.


Was another 2d online kids game set up sometime in the 2000s. Wasn't really a club penguin, was more in the vein of a point and click game. Every section of the game was a separate 'island' with it's own story or quest and this is where they were able to insert sponsorships, by developing these areas around specific IPs. I'd imagine when that dried up as shit like Roblox took the spotlight their platform floundered.
 
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Here is a general idea of what Poptropica looks like:
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It's from the era of kid's browser games in the mid to late 2000s whose competition was Club Penguin, Webkinz, Toontown and Roblox. It ran on Flash and had been decreasing in relevancy for sometime. It rebooted somewhat after Flash died and lost a lot of older content so that probably didn't help retain a lot of the player who to be fair if they weren't children, were people nostalgic about the game itself so it is what it is.

A while back a few people used Flashpoint in order to allow others to access older parts of the game offline.
 
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I'm guessing this wasn't on newgrounds or addicting games because it looks like some gay and lame corporate kids game bullshit and I've never heard of it before.
 
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Breadbassket said:
Here is a general idea of what Poptropica looks like:
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It's from the era of kid's browser games in the mid to late 2000s whose competition was Club Penguin, Webkinz, Toontown and Roblox. It ran on Flash and had been decreasing in relevancy for sometime. It rebooted somewhat after Flash died and lost a lot of older content so that probably didn't help retain a lot of the player who to be fair if they weren't children, were people nostalgic about the game itself so it is what it is.

A while back a few people used Flashpoint in order to allow others to access older parts of the game offline.
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The Wimpy Kid author made that? I had thought it was Club Penguin. The only people sad about this will be late teens, early 20s. Kids nowadays have Fortnite. Sign of the times I suppose.
 
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