About

Hi, I'm Andrew. I keep things that were supposed to disappear.

I'm a creative director and brand designer, and the founder of Wiles Creative Studio. The Virtual World Archive is the project where the design work and the collecting habit meet.

Poptropica is the world I grew up in, and it is the one I know best. I built Poptropica Legacy, a fan remaster of the original game for modern desktops and browsers, which reached 15,000 downloads and more than 3 million views on TikTok within months of release. In the Poptropica community I go by HPuterpop.

Legacy taught me how much of a virtual world lives outside the game itself: in wikis, fan sites, old screenshots and people's memories. Those are scattered, and a lot of them are one expired domain away from gone. So the archive starts with poptropica.wiki and a survey of every other world I could find, and it grows one wiki at a time.

Andrew Wiles, in a cap and a black hoodie, talking with his hands — Andrew Wiles

The room

A Poptropica library you can walk into

The archive has a physical wing. Over many years I have gathered what might be the most extensive collection of Poptropica merchandise there is, and it lives on these shelves.

The whole collection: bookshelves of boxed figures, plushies and books, with the inflatable Poptropica blimp hanging overhead — The whole display. Boxed figures on the right-hand shelves, books on the left, and the 30-inch blimp on patrol from a ceiling hook.

The Poptropica end of the bookshelf, from the graphic novels to the Ultimate Sticker Collection — The Poptropica end of the shelf: the graphic novels, the island books, Poptopics and the Official Guide. The hardcover *Mystery of the Map* is signed by Jeff Kinney, Max Brallier and Kory Merritt.

A shelf holding Timmy Failure, Galactic Hot Dogs, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Peanuts, Magic Tree House, Big Nate and The Lost Jewels of Nabooti — One shelf, eight franchises: at least one item from every series Poptropica made a sponsored island for.

Dr. Hare, Shark Boy and Cool Kid plushies in the blue Poptropica store display box — The plushies in their original store display, tags and credit coins included.

Two Pocketeers in their balloon-shaped packaging — Dr. Hare and the Cowardly Lion Pocketeers, still in their balloons.

The Time Tangled Island clock on the side of a bookshelf, with Poptropica membership cards hanging below it — The Time Tangled clock keeps watch over the membership cards.

Framed artwork of the Poptropica Help Blog team drawn as Poptropicans under the heading Who ya gonna call? — The Poptropica Help Blog team lineup by Ashley Lange. That's me on the far right.

Who makes this

Wiles Creative Studio

The archive is a project of my studio. I have spent more than ten years building visual identities, interactive media and digital products from the ground up, and have led creative teams of up to 25 people across game development, branding and digital media.

That is why each wiki here gets its own design instead of a shared template: it is the part of the job I care about most.

Visit the studio

Brand identity and logo design
Web and UI/UX design
Product and packaging design
Concept art and visual development
Game design and development

Selected work

Got something worth saving?

Old screenshots, a fan site backup, a box in the attic. If it belongs to a virtual world, the archive would like to hear about it.

How to contribute