Friday 12 December 2008

Interactive Flash - Finished!

Praise the lord its over with, I decided for my final piece to be a genre cross game in this case I chose comedy centrals "South Park" and Square-Enixs "Final Fantasy 7" the game has path choices and a specially made battle sequence similar to the turn based style used in the Final Fantasy series overall the narrative is your basic good vs evil. I chose to do this because south park characters are easy to redraw to suit your flash needs and also because both genres have something great about them whether it be South Parks humour or Final Fantasy's epic story.

Please Enjoy!!



South Park - Final Fantasy by ~BurtFish on deviantART


Please see link if flash doesnt load on here....
http://burtfish.deviantart.com/art/South-Park-Final-Fantasy-106121657

Tuesday 2 December 2008

Interactive Narrative - First Ideas

From viewing a selection of work online as well as students work, I'm still in two minds as to which narrative I intend to use for my flash project. I'm looking into a few ideas of spin offs of well known games and films, but am also looking into making the flash project be a help guide on maybe drugs or other student problems. But the flash video is going to accommodate a wide selection of choices which all have consequences whether it be a help guide or a spin off. There will still be a great deal of interacvity and a strong narrative. Hopefully by the end of this week 5/12/2008 I will have a better idea of what I intend to do and will with any luck be planning it.

Interactive Narrative - Existing Work Analysis!

The Simpson's Home Interactive

http://www.flashgames247.com/play/513.html

This is a small interactive flash game called "The Simpson's home interactive" it is basically a interactive blue print of the Simpson home designed using some actual stills and pictures from the TV show, but a majority of the work is drawn by the creator. The games mainly consists of click able items which all have a small animation for example turns lights on and off, or cupboards open and close. Also they have added a extras such as sound boards to the flash to keep you entertained. Overall there is a small amount of interactivity to the game but nothing above basic character animation changes. There is no narrative to the game it is more for information and trivia purposes on The Simpson's TV show.


Field Command Interactive Game

http://www.ugoplayer.com/games/fieldcommand.html

This is a interactive strategy game were you command a small group of soldiers and issue pre-set commands to the squad the object of the game is it make it from mission to mission whilst keeping as many soldiers alive as possible. Interactivity is to a minimum and is a far as the pre- order commands allow and the game is more luck than strategy. But each mission completion offers a code so that you can continue where yo left off if you wish. The narrative of this game is a tactical war story but there is only basic diaologe to support this.