500 Word Rational

When I started to think about ideas for my interactive quiz I thought i'd try and keep it nice and simple. Personally i think it looks a lot better and also being a newcomer to Adobe Flash I wont be trying to achieve things that are out of my league. First of all I drew out some basic layout designs, then thought about how they would work, so i made a basic template in Adobe Illustrator then tested it out in Flash. Luckily my first background i created worked nicely, so i started thinking about what theme and questions i was going to create for my quiz. I was going to do a fashion quiz but i didn't think it would work that well, so i went back to something that kept me very entertained for my childhood, OLD SCHOOL VIDEO GAMES! This turned out to be a good choice because i had lots of images that were readily available and also I could think of innovative questions. I have never really used Flash before I came to university, my first Flash project turned out ok so i had faith in myself that I could produce something good, but i thought that my action-script skills would let me down. I rented a few books out from the library and completed several online tutorials but I still struggled with more advanced action-script. I need to sit down and figure out Action-script logically, so I can identify my errors and correct them. I used quite a bit of roll over functions in my quiz because i think it gives a nice appearance on screen and its fun for the user, I really wish i could of done the things i wanted to do in my quiz but it just kept going wrong for me so i had to take it back to basics. Such as adding a slider below images, so as the mouse hovers over the image the slider follows it appropriately. I thought that this would look so nice in my quiz but i just couldn't get to terms with adding the different pieces of Action-script into different parts of my quiz. Adding sound to the quiz was quite straight forward, luckily I didn't have any problems with this which I was very happy about. It was the same with adding video as well, it turned out well and also looked very nice quiz. I would of liked to go for top grades and add an embedded Youtube player into my quiz but again I really struggled with the advanced action-script. I even drew out a few sketches for skinning the player, but it was really out of my league. Overall I really enjoyed this project, it was probably my favorite out of the three, I am looking forward to doing the Interactive pathway next year, as I hope that I can get some more 1 on 1 tutoring in the seminar, as thats how I feel I learn best.