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Brief: 'Environmental awareness campaign' promo cd for 4-7 year olds. Will focus on recycling and waste reduction. It must be fun and informative. It is to contain lots of info + games and quizzes to test the childrens knowledge. Will have an an area for teacher only access - password protected. Also will have video, music and sound effects. I have a character, a seagull called sam, who will narrate both via visuals and audio throughout. It must fit on one CD and be complete by mid September
Not much then...!
I hope to run it through a browser (IE I would imagine) using HTML and Flash.Use 'Auto-run' so that it'll open direct from the CD. Will auto run allow "full screen" popups? or is there a bettter way?
I have never attempted something like this and my initial ideas are theoretical, so any advice would be greatly appreciated - no matter how trivial.
Ta, Limbo
To have the flash movie take over the whole screen add the following code:
fscommand ("fullscreen", "true");
you will also need to add a quit button with the code:
on (release) {
fscommand("quit");
}
Creating a CD front end in Flash has caused me problems when the file size was over 30Megs, So I would suggest making a small front-end as a stand-alone projector and publish the games and quizes as seperate SWFs that are loaded and unloaded by the front-end as needed. Another advantage to this modular design is the sharing of the SWFs across the partitions of a Mac/Win hybrid CD-Rom.
I hope this helps,
Jezra
If you are planning to create most of your content in flash, then you should skip the html all together and create a stand-alone projector. This will take care of the "is the flash plugin installed?" problem.
That sounds like an good idea - is it easy to do?
I would suggest making a small front-end as a stand-alone projector and publish the games and quizes as seperate SWFs that are loaded and unloaded by the front-end as needed. Another advantage to this modular design is the sharing of the SWFs across the partitions of a Mac/Win hybrid CD-Rom.
nice tip, ta.
I am still a little nervous about doing the whole thing in flash. I am more confident using HTML - is there way to create an .exe from html pages that'll auto run and open full screen - that would at least narrow my development time for the quiz and info areas - the games (we may have to outsource these) & animated character can then be loaded as separate swfs for the relevant pages.
Ta
Limbo
We used Macromedia Director as the layout/player, which read from xml files the content.
This way code can be quickly reused, and content changed by the (relatively) unskilled.
>> Draw up story board and spider plan of childrens journey through the presentation with timings at each juncture.
>> Custom built .exe > auto launches maximised HTML page > or with icon from CD also (do hidden files run from CD?)
>> Database design - for integration with HTML form based quizzes
>> Use cookies to remember what page kids were at (can these even be run from a CD?)
>> Pull together content and story as HTML
>> Design password protected teacher access only area
>> Design and optimise consistent look and feel
>> Images, Icons, buttons and other static design elements
>> Develop Sam the Seagull - cartoon character (contained in flash player 'screen' on every page)
>> Embed Video/Flash/Audio/Games through flash player
>> Accessibility high res version - full audio and full visual.
>> Additional content (PDF's/word/printable teacher/pupil guides)
>> Cross platform/system/browser development
>> Test, test, test and test some more.
>> Design of booklet, cover and case
OK folks thats about all I have come up with. Can you see anything that I might of missed? tis likely ;)
Ta
Limbo
