Poptropica Worlds and Crisis Caverns, Here at Last!

It has finally come -- the event we've all been waiting a year for -- the release of Poptropica Worlds! (Well, it actually happened a couple days ago, but it takes me a while to emerge from my slumber, OK?). What's new about this monumental update, you might ask?

• An all-new engine, built in Unity from the ground up, instead of Flash like the previous two Poptropicas.
• Saves your game to the cloud, so you have the same account on web, Android, and iOS (yay!)
• The same art style, music, and creativity you know and love.
  
• But most important of all... shoes! (and knees!)
  

With the new engine comes a new island -- the first one since Escape from Pelican Rock in 2015! It's called Crisis Caverns, and as we all know from certain sneak peeks, the concept for this island had been brewing in the Creators' minds for a very long time now. Although it's quite short and easy, it's a good demonstration of what the new Poptropica can do.

Poptrickia will be posting a full written and illustrated walkthrough for the island within the next couple days on this page (and perhaps even a video guide if I can figure out how to do it without the lagginess destroying my mind). Watch this space!

Of course, this being the first release, you should consider it a beta, with a plethora of bugs still to be worked out...

• Currently, the major problem is the controls -- they are ridiculously frustrating and unresponsive. Now I wouldn't consider my laptop the epitome of modern hardware, but it's a decent 2.5 GHz Intel i5 (with the integrated graphics card; yes I know, you may all mock me now). Poptropica is primarily frequented by young kids though, who shouldn't be expected to have high-end hardware.
  
• That said, although your mileage may vary of course, I have had the best experience with Firefox. It uses the least amount of memory while also using multiple cores, unlike Chrome or Edge.
• And only once did the game get legitimately stuck, at which point I had to reload the page. Thankfully, I barely lost any progress, which is more than can be said for some of the previous updated islands!

I could go on and on, but I'm going to actually organize my thoughts in a review of Crisis Caverns that I will post shortly :)

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 And lastly, Poptrickia just became an official Poptropica VIP blog! Skinny Moon gave us some nice badge images, and I'll be putting one up pretty soon, probably on the right side of the header.

It's an exciting time in Poptropica again. Enjoy Crisis Caverns and exploring Worlds!