Narrative Flow Chart

Here is the flow chart for my interactive narrative project:

I am really happy with my Flash project although there are plenty of changes that can be done to improve it even more.

Evaluation

Adventure Holiday is aimed towards poeple of diferent ages (but probably no younger than around 8 because of the text) It is of a fiction genre designed to tell the user a story that they can have a degree of control to.

The story is set in New Zealand where a group of the people (the user included) decide to go on a road trip for the weekend and do some adventure trips including caving and hiking. For most of the text slides I chose a black background, this is because I thought It tied in better with the theme of the caves, the text over that became blue to create what I think is an effective style.

I have not added much sound to the project as of yet, I have however added some sound to the buttons, this helps guide the user through the story so that as well as the buttons changing appearance as they push them they can hear that they have pushed a button too. I did attempt to add some more ambitious sound effects such as different sounds coming through on different slides but I could not quite grasp the method of doing this. I will continue to try this until I get it right and upload it to Deviantart.com when I am happy with it.

I also have not uploaded the project onto Deviantart.com as of yet. This is because some of the pictures I have used came from Waitomo.co.nz which is the website giving all the information about the Waitomo Cave trips. I do plan to remove these pictures and replace them with my own pictures therefore eliminating any copyright issues.

Throughout the production of my Flash project I asked several of my fellow students to test it for me and give me any feedback. This happened several times and was very beneficial for me as several issues were raised, such as the text being hard to read on some slides, this meant that I could go away and adjust the problem areas and make the project even better - Thank you to all who gave me such feedback!