Re: FLASH: Flash - kid's stuff

[Marc Hoffman]

At 11:05 PM 11/26/98 +0100, you wrote: 

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>> Marc (and all the others),

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> Sorry about the VCF. It rather slipped by me. Here's the link. And HAppy

> Thanksgiving to you. 

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> Jason 

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Hi Jason.


I like the characters and a lot of the movement, such as how the shells

dropped

down from above. When I got to the beach scene I expected more interactivity;

you could easily create some movie clips in place of static images, and have

them play on mouseover.  Generally I think there needs to be more

interactivity

(kids have very short attention spans).  Also you could avoid most or all of

your delays by not loading new HTML pages for every scenario.  Instead, copy

those movies into movie clips, have them load as soon as possible, but have

each one begin with a parked, empty frame.  Or, use LoadMovie to load them on

higher levels, also using an invisible, parked first frame.  Then use

TellTarget to play each one, instead of loading it on a new page.  I think

you'll find it quite gratifying to see how fast all this can happen.  My

Poison

Dart Frog Music site uses stacked movies in this way; if I were doing it

again,

I'd probably use movie clips instead.  But see http://www.jps.net/dartfrog for

an example of a whole lot of content that doesn't make people wait and doesn't

have to say "loading."  I don't think kids (or most adults) know what

"loading"

is and you could just as easily have a low-filesize, amusing character

animation running instead of text. Also have a look at Jim Curry's stuff

for an

example of well-designed loading and a whole lot of amusing, interactive stuff

going on: http://home.twcny.rr.com/jcurry/fsopen.html




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