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i remember ads for this game though i was more of a superhero squad online kinda guy the death of browser games deeply saddens me
Poptropica is shutting down
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likeacrackado
kiwifarms.net
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Remember playing this game and trying to figure out the puzzles with other kids on the elementary school computers. The website the game was on had some other good flash games too. Sad to see it go, but its best left in a more innocent time.
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Well there goes another relic from the Late 2000s. I still miss the Late 2000s Internet.
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I don't think it really had anything to do with either, the Wimpy Kid thing was a single zone added later.
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Remembered playing this at school with some other classmates when the teacher wasn't looking back in the day. Sad to see it go but nothing is impermanent.
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You could have told me this shut down quietly in 2012 and I would have believed you, a little sad it made it this long only to die now.
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I remember playing this shit a lot as a kid. I kept creating new accounts because I would always lose my password. I remember wanting to revisit it a couple years ago but when I got into the game so much of the content I remembered from childhood was locked behind a paywall even though it used to free.
Also I remember there was an island that was literally just Africa. You could jump around in African diamond mines looking for gems to help a totem thing go to space or something. Very weird but fun game.
Also I remember there was an island that was literally just Africa. You could jump around in African diamond mines looking for gems to help a totem thing go to space or something. Very weird but fun game.
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Necro post, my apologizes.
So, I got reminded about this game while looking through another thread, looked up the game through Google: the game is still up, though when you click on a link, it'll take you to coolmathgames.com. You can play the game through there, and I think that's where the game is going to be permanently hosted, actually.
Be advised, they have removed a LOT of content these days, however; couple of the more memorable ones like Zomberry or Steampunk or Nabooti are all gone, replaced by other islands. They did make Survival and the Comic-Con episodes into their own islands, weirdly enough.
But yeah, logged in with my old account, it was all still on there, even though I hadn't logged onto the game in... I genuinely don't remember, over 5+ years ago, at least. Since 2017, I think.
So, I got reminded about this game while looking through another thread, looked up the game through Google: the game is still up, though when you click on a link, it'll take you to coolmathgames.com. You can play the game through there, and I think that's where the game is going to be permanently hosted, actually.
Be advised, they have removed a LOT of content these days, however; couple of the more memorable ones like Zomberry or Steampunk or Nabooti are all gone, replaced by other islands. They did make Survival and the Comic-Con episodes into their own islands, weirdly enough.
But yeah, logged in with my old account, it was all still on there, even though I hadn't logged onto the game in... I genuinely don't remember, over 5+ years ago, at least. Since 2017, I think.
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Fucking rip. Had some great erp sessions but it was inevitable.
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Warning: Autistic Post
Reality TV island was my favourite island in this game. You got to play a challenge to win immunity from getting voted out, then cast votes to eliminate someone else until only you remain. But if you don't win immunity, there's a risk that you will get voted out. This game was a little bit frustrating because if you didn't win the first immunity challenge, you seemed to get voted first out a lot more than random.
Anyways I got this game running in flashpoint and decompiled it using a flash decompiler to look at the source code, and I was correct to think that you tend to get eliminated first a lot more than random!
The way that the voting AI works in this game is that every NPC gets assigned a random 'bias' variable from 1-8 from at the start of the season, and when the time comes to vote, they will vote for that person. If the person they were planning to vote for is immune, or was previously voted out, it gets randomly reassigned to a new person. In addition, if they survived a round but got votes cast against them, they will update their bias to someone who voted for them.
Because these votes are pretty random, the vote will often tie 3-3-* or 2-2-*, so to prevent a tie the game randomly picks someone's vote in the tie to switch to someone else to break the tie. This can result in someone voting for themselves and getting eliminated because of it.
Anyways, remember how I said that the player gets eliminated first a lot more than random? That's because when every NPC gets their random 'bias' variable at the start of the season, the NPC furthest to the left is ALWAYS biased against the player, meaning if you don't win the first immunity challenge, you will at minimum receive one vote every time. All it takes then is for another player to randomly get biased against you, and you may get involved in a 2-2-* tie and get randomly eliminated by the RNG tiebreaker.
However if you win the first immunity challenge, the rightmost NPC is forced to pick a new bias when they go to vote, so they will instead start camping their vote on someone else. Winning an immunity challenge is an effective way to not make NPCs vote for you in future rounds, because anyone who was going to vote for you will instead be forced to get their bias variable stuck on someone else, and the only way it will end up back on you is if you vote for them and they don't get eliminated, or if they vote for the person who gets eliminated and they roll a 1/X chance of being biased against you next.
Anyways there are probably 0.5 people who care about this on the forum but if you remember ever playing this game, now you know how it works.
You can see a demonstration of this in this video at the timestamped time: https://youtu.be/V2MEIm6Be7w?t=554
Reality TV island was my favourite island in this game. You got to play a challenge to win immunity from getting voted out, then cast votes to eliminate someone else until only you remain. But if you don't win immunity, there's a risk that you will get voted out. This game was a little bit frustrating because if you didn't win the first immunity challenge, you seemed to get voted first out a lot more than random.
Anyways I got this game running in flashpoint and decompiled it using a flash decompiler to look at the source code, and I was correct to think that you tend to get eliminated first a lot more than random!
The way that the voting AI works in this game is that every NPC gets assigned a random 'bias' variable from 1-8 from at the start of the season, and when the time comes to vote, they will vote for that person. If the person they were planning to vote for is immune, or was previously voted out, it gets randomly reassigned to a new person. In addition, if they survived a round but got votes cast against them, they will update their bias to someone who voted for them.
Because these votes are pretty random, the vote will often tie 3-3-* or 2-2-*, so to prevent a tie the game randomly picks someone's vote in the tie to switch to someone else to break the tie. This can result in someone voting for themselves and getting eliminated because of it.
Anyways, remember how I said that the player gets eliminated first a lot more than random? That's because when every NPC gets their random 'bias' variable at the start of the season, the NPC furthest to the left is ALWAYS biased against the player, meaning if you don't win the first immunity challenge, you will at minimum receive one vote every time. All it takes then is for another player to randomly get biased against you, and you may get involved in a 2-2-* tie and get randomly eliminated by the RNG tiebreaker.
However if you win the first immunity challenge, the rightmost NPC is forced to pick a new bias when they go to vote, so they will instead start camping their vote on someone else. Winning an immunity challenge is an effective way to not make NPCs vote for you in future rounds, because anyone who was going to vote for you will instead be forced to get their bias variable stuck on someone else, and the only way it will end up back on you is if you vote for them and they don't get eliminated, or if they vote for the person who gets eliminated and they roll a 1/X chance of being biased against you next.
Anyways there are probably 0.5 people who care about this on the forum but if you remember ever playing this game, now you know how it works.
You can see a demonstration of this in this video at the timestamped time: https://youtu.be/V2MEIm6Be7w?t=554
BetterFuckChuck
kiwifarms.net
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So like what "version" of the game is archived vs. available nowadays? I know they kinda reinvented it and junked most of the islands, to be dripfed but never did. I'm going to guess that version's on coolmathgames and the one that fans have actually tried to archive offline is the one with all the classic islands, that people actually remembered because they played it back when it was actually relevent to kids' interests