Popfly Game Creator
9 05 2008A few days back, Techcrunch reported on a new feature on the social-mashup-gadget-builder Web site, Popfly, which allows users to create their own mini games.
It’s a pretty neat addition on to Popfly, as in the first place, games were never really this easy to create, and this would really be a great addition onto the list of stuff (mashups, gadgets (or widgets), and Web pages) that non-technical people can build, just with a few clicks.
I tried some of the templates out, and I must say its really simple to create these games, and you could straight away play any of the templates to get a feel of how the games are, and then customize the background, characters etc to your liking, and of course, share it with your friends.
It is built using Silverlight 1.0, but even so, I believe it only exhibits a fraction of what Silverlight 2.0 could be capable of, as there is a big difference between the capabilities of managed code and scripting languages.
The game creator function is currently still in Alpha, and I’m speculating that it would only be officially RTM’ed only when it is built on Silverlight 2.0, not the Beta 1 version, but the RTW version of Silverlight 2.0.
As for the targeted audience for this feature…I dunno, maybe young children or girls that like mini-games?
