Sodaplay Blog

We’ve completed our migration of accounts and models from the original sodaplay.com. Everyone should be able to login, and you should find all your constructor models (both public (visible to everyone) and private (only visible to you)). 

Moovl is now available to play at Sodaplay! Moovl adds bouncy physics and springy animations to freehand drawings.Have a play and start drawing, I’m really looking forward to seeing what colorful contraptions and crazy characters you can create!

The new sodaplay does not feature a zoo like the previous version did. But you can now access the original Zoo and even launch all the models in the new Constructor. Check out the archived Zoo if you feel a bit nostalgic or if you just want to play with some of the outstanding models created over the years.And we have another big surprise coming. An application might make its debut on sodaplay.com later today….

We have just released the latest version of constructor. Using the new sodaplay layout engine it has an all new interface, but all the well known and loved features are there. And more features will be coming soon as this new version enables us to be much more agile. We look forward to seeing loads of new constructor models!Next on our list is to turn registration back on so we can welcome new users to Sodaplay once more.  And then there are sodarace (a whole new application suite), moovl, and a great many other features and updates we are working on. Stay tuned!ps: To embed a preview image like the one shown here simply copy and paste the code shown with each model and application (e.g Ed’s dainty walker) into your site.

We’ve just made the first dashboard available – this is where you can view all your creations – both public, and private. 

You can launch them all from here, and in future delete or move from public to private or vice-versa.

Further notes on public vs private:

All models created on new sodaplay.com are currently public whereas we’ve migrated from old sodaplay.com both public/published models and the “private” ones. There is a difference here by the way – currently in the new site you can’t share any private model – only you (who are logged in) can see them when you are logged in. 

UPDATE: a small number of users haven’t yet been migrated… we’ll keep trucking till they’ve moved across. They’ll be ones at the end of the alphabe (near “z”) – sorry if this means you…

Sodaplay creators are (almost) all migrated across from the old sodaplay. Let’s celebrate by turning login on. This means if you had a login on the old sodaplay, it should now work on the new sodaplay (but there are a few tweaks, which might mean your login has had to be changed slightly – try it out, and follow any links).

About half the creators’ models have been migrated. The rest should happen over the next few days.

We’ve still got problems with migration – the good news is that our problems are now just that it’s happening so slowly. The bad news before was that we couldn’t get it started… So I suppose that counts as limited “good news”. We’re hoping to get logins turned on for existing users that have migrated across before the weekend.More good news is that we’ve done a few updates to the site, which mean that you can now see a list of the models that a user has published (e.g. http://sodaplay.com/creators/kevino).

You might have noticed that the migration from the previous Sodaplay to the new version is still not complete. We are hoping to finish it this week though. Please bear with us. All you creations are save and will be available soon!