We’re happy to share a limited time discount on all our apps. Use the links below to get our apps at 30% off!

Grab a discount for:

• Tumult Hype 4 Professional 
• Tumult Hype 4 Standard 
• Tumult Whisk 2 
• Or use the code CYBERHYPERMONDAY on the Tumult Store

Tumult Hype is the best way to make animated and interactive HTML5 content.

Tumult Whisk is a live preview HTML, CSS, and JS editor and it’s the fastest way to see the effect of your code as you write it:

Both Hype and Whisk have unrestricted 2 week trials, if you need some time to explore. (But our discount code will expire soon…)

For updates on this discount, follow us at @hypeapp.

Since the release of the physical edition of A Book About Hype last May, we’ve been spreading the word about this comprehensive and helpful guide written by Michael Garofalo. This week, Michael announced a new digital edition of the book built with Hype(!) that ships with dozens of helpful Hype templates, an ePub version, and a full blown searchable app version with charming introductory animations for each chapter.

The book doesn’t just cover the nitty gritty of timelines, animations, and working with JavaScript in Hype — it can serve as a helpful guide to help get your projects off the ground in the planning stage:

“When starting a new Hype project, think of what you have and what you need. Illustrations, photographs, text and code, there are a lot of little pieces. You’ll want to minimize the time spent staring at an empty scene and get your project moving. Those initial steps are some of the most difficult to overcome. Here are a few ideas that can help.

Play — When you’re first starting out with Hype, or pretty much anything, you’re not likely to be great on your first try. If you want to learn, you’ll need to be open to experimenting. That also means being open to the idea of failure. There are plenty of unfinished Hype projects sitting on my computer. Was it wasted time? If the lessons learned can be applied to other projects, then knowledge was gained. That is something of value. That is an asset.”

Excerpt From: Michael Garofalo. “A Book About Hype.”

Grab the Book Here.

If you’re curious just how deep this book goes and what you might learn, explore the table of contents below:

Section I — Getting Started
• Chapter #1 — Installation
• Chapter #2 — Introduction
• Chapter #3 — Elements
• Chapter #4 — File Types
• Chapter #5 — Planning
• Chapter #6 — Inspector: Document
• Chapter #7 — Inspector: Scene
• Chapter #8 — Inspector: Metrics
• Chapter #9 — Inspector: Element
• Chapter #10 — Inspector: Typography
• Chapter #11 — Inspector: Actions
• Chapter #12 — Inspector: Physics
• Chapter #13 — Inspector: Identity

Section II — Animation
• Chapter #14 — Timelines
• Chapter #15 — Layers
• Chapter #16 — Properties and Keyframes
• Chapter #17 — Timing Functions
• Chapter #18 — Capo
• Chapter #19 — Timeline Actions
• Chapter #20 — Multiple Timelines

Section III — Hype Pro
• Chapter #21 — Going Pro
• Chapter #22 — Grid System
• Chapter #23 — Symbols
• Chapter #24 — Persistent Symbols
• Chapter #25 — Responsive Layouts
• Chapter #26 — Physics

Section IV — JavaScript
— JavaScript Basics
— Comments on Semicolons
• Chapter #27 — Adding Code
— Don’t Panic
— External Editors
• Chapter #28 — Parameters
• Chapter #29 — Get & Set
— Bouncing Explained
— Saving
• Chapter #30 — Scees
• Chapter #31 — Timelines
• Chapter #32 — Symbols
• Chapter #33 — Drag Events

Section V — Examples
• Chapter #34 — Coloring
— Grinding
• Chapter #35 — Sliding
— Shuffling
• Chapter #36 — Picturing
— Indexing
• Chapter #37 — Timing
• Chapter #38 — Navigating
— Arraying

Section VI — Publishing
• Chapter #39 — Testing
• Chapter #40 — Browser Support
• Chapter #41 — Export
• Chapter #42 — Advanced Export
• Chapter #43 — Export Scripts
• Chapter #44 — Widgets
— OAM Widget / WordPress
• Chapter #45 — Hype-To-App
• Chapter #46 — Hype-To-Home

Section VII — Advanced Design
• Chapter #47 — Dark Mode
— CSS Variables
• Chapter #48 — Accessibility
• Chapter #49 — Presentation Mode
— Keyboard Controls
— Fullscreen Mode

Section VIII — Games
• Chapter #50 — Jigsaw
• Chapter #51 — Physics API
• Chapter #52 — Circles with Grandma
— Artificial Intelligence
• Chapter #53 — Game Data
• Chapter #54 — Jump
— Collision Detection

Section IX — Hype Website
• Chapter #55 — Building A Hype Website
— Menu
— Extra Bits
— Conclusion

Read the full release notes here.

If you bought from the :

• Open the App Store by going to the Apple menu and selecting App Store
• Make sure you are signed in via the Store menu
• Click the Updates tab at the top of the App Store window
• If you have not already automatically upgraded, click the Update button located next to Hype

If you purchased from our Tumult Store, you can update by following these steps:

• Open Tumult Hype
• Choose the ‘Hype > Check for Updates…’ menu
• Install and relaunch when prompted

When did you start at Tumult? 

I linked up with Jonathan Deutsch & Ryan Nielsen who were looking for help to get through their growing support queue. Hype at that point (five years ago) was a promising app that I had used briefly previously — I had a feeling it was answering a huge need so I happily joined up with Tumult. Since then I’ve helped launch many big updates to Hype — It’s very fulfilling to empower people to create for the web while using a tool they love.

Can you give us a hint about what we should expect from the Hype Conference? 

I’ve been lucky enough to meet nearly all of the Hype Conference speakers in one way or another: either at last year’s iBooks Author conference, or from other more virtual communications as Tumult Hype’s director of support. A big topic I want to cover from all angles is responsive + flexible layouts, and all the considerations that you should take into account when preparing a new project.

I’ll also be speaking about some bleeding edge techniques with Hype to show off how you can use Hype with some new web technologies.

Meet Daniel and more speakers & attendees at the Hype Conference on October 8th.

Tumult Hype Edition features a uniquely elegant expression of Tumult Hype. It has a window frame crafted from 18-karat gold that our metallurgists have developed to be up to twice as hard as standard gold. The scene editor is protected by polished sapphire crystal. And an exquisitely designed keyframe interface provides a striking complement.

Tumult Hype Edition is available as an In-App Purchase from within Hype 3 for $999.99 USD. A 30-minute appointment in the Tumult Store is required before buying. Once purchased, it will unlock the Gold Theme.

We’re very excited to have Hype Edition join Hype 3 and Hype Professional; we believe it is the best product lineup we’ve ever done.

Please plase please/
Develop a Tumult Hype release/
That could be used on Microsoft/
So i can build some fancy stuff/
Tumult Hype is what I was searching for/
the whole time of my life/
and if you would live next my door/
you would get plenty of high-fives.

This is the first time in our company history we’ve had a request for windows support in the form of poetry!

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