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Jack’s Secret Monster: A ‘choose your own adventure’ for the iPad

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Could you build an entire interactive storybook with Tumult Hype? Certainly. “Jack’s Secret Monster” just hit the app store, and its designer at Game Digits has told us he relied on Tumult Hype to develop the interaction. Here are a few of the book’s features: Multiple story paths Interactive characters and scenes Narration Bookmarking progress through …

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Interactive Crime Memorabilia: Original Documents from Capote’s “In Cold Blood” presented in Tumult Hype

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Truman Capote published the non-fiction crime novel ‘In Cold Blood‘ in 1966, following six years of interviews and thousands of pages of notes. Capote’s access to local detectives made the story one of the greatest crime novels ever written. The signed first edition books and personal letters sent by Capote to the lead detective, Harold …

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Interactive Museum Displays: The Sound of Sax in The Museum of Making Music

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It’s exciting to see Tumult Hype projects in unexpected places. Today we’re happy to share an interactive iPad kiosk in the Museum of Making Music’s ‘Sound of Sax‘ exhibit. If you’re near Carlsbad, CA, check it out! B.J. Morgan, who created the setup, writes: We used Kiosk Pro Plus which features the ability to automatically display …

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Notes on Tumult Hype’s Cross-Browser Compatibility (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Almost Not Hate IE6)

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One of Tumult Hype‘s top strengths is the ability to output content which can be displayed on a wide range of browsers across desktops, phones, and tablets. We put a lot of energy into making sure animations look great and run smoothly on Internet Explorer 6 to the latest Chrome 18. Apologies if we made …

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Tumult Hype 1.5.1 Released!

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It’s our pleasure to announce the release of Tumult Hype version 1.5.1. This update features: Option-clicking the per-property add keyframe button will add keyframes to all properties on selected elements Copy/Paste scenes Bug fixes It is recommended that everybody upgrade. Please visit our detailed history page for more information.

Artists and Tumult Hype: J Harley Gilmore’s Interactive Musical Minisite

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It’s exciting to see photographers, architects, fine artists, and musicians (see below) create beautiful and interactive sites for themselves in Tumult Hype. Seeing so many creative people make use of Tumult Hype as an expressive tool makes us extremely happy. Today we’d like to spotlight a site Jimmy Gilmore created to showcase his drumming career. Jimmy writes that …

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Pixels vs. Bandwidth: Tumult Hype documents and Retina displays (iPhones, iPads, and the Retina Macbook Pro)

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Note: This article was written when the new iPads with retina screens emerged onto the scene. It has been updated to reflect Tumult Hype 2.5’s new retina image support. Here are a few tips for producing high resolution Tumult Hype documents: Use High Resolution Images Tumult Hype 2.5 supports retina images, which means that you can …

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