Archive for the 'New Features' category

New art form: Graffiti/freehand

May 19th, 2007

TheBroth as a platform for collaborative art will soon see whole range of new art forms. One of the coolest art forms, graffiti, will soon enter open beta. Read more

Room reseeding

February 8th, 2007

Seeding room colors by uploading an image with the colors you want should be easy, yet many consider it somewhat of a black art. What if you run out of tiles of a certain colors? A new feature makes it easy to reseed the colors of a room, down to very exact tile. Read more

Subscribing to TheBroth’s RSS feed

February 6th, 2007

Each user can now subscribe to an RSS feed of the latest snapshots, comments to tracked snapshots, comments to subscribed blogs, and comments to your own blog. Read on to learn how. Read more

Comment notifications via email

February 2nd, 2007

New feature: You can now opt to be notified via email whenever somebody makes a new comment to a blog post of yours. Read more

Blog subscription and better navigation

January 30th, 2007

New feature: Subscribe to blogs of your favorite authors! Plus, there’s now better navigation between individual blog posts. Read more

Choose your favorite artworks

January 18th, 2007

The profile page is slowly getting a new look. We’ve just started the extreme makeover of it, but some features are already working. You can now show off your favorite artworks! Read more

Kicking out bullies

November 21st, 2006

Room owners can now use a new moderating feature to keep the peace in their rooms: There now is a kick button with which you can remove offending users from your room. Read more

Instant notifications

November 17th, 2006

On our continued quest to further TheBroth goodness, we’re further working to blur the lines between web applications and live multiplayer online gaming. Our new feature, instant notifications, is going to help us move closer to that goal.

From now on, you’ll get instantly notified when your friends come online, when you have a new message, when you’re invited to a room, get a friend request, get a new comment or reply on your blog, your artwork(s) or your forum post - no matter on which page of TheBroth you currently are. Read on to discover in detail how this works and how it will improve your TheBroth experience. Read more

Live room preview thumbnails

November 15th, 2006

A long awaited feature - Live room preview thumbnails. TheBroth artists can now see what their artwork-in-creation looks like directly from within the room! Simply click the thumbnail and it will immediately update to accurately reflect the position of all tiles in the room.

And what’s more, you can place these room thumbnail preview images anywhere. On your own site, myspace, other forums… read on to discover how! Read more

The replay/rewind feature

November 14th, 2006

Moves are being recorded

In all rooms, all tile moves that anyone makes are constantly being recorded. When you take a snapshot, it will allow you to replay any moves made up to that point. Goes without saying that this is for registered users only.

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