@Jeff - WOW! Great work! If you told me this was built in Storyline, I would have believed you. Can I use this for future presentations? This is a great example showing the difference between building something in Studio vs. Storyline.
I don't know how you managed to wrap your mind around the branching, especially since PPT displays the slides linearly.
I built a much simpler version of this scenario in PPT for the Articulate Studio training that I do. Even without allowing the user to select their own character, it ended up being a total of 16 slides.
You can check it out here on slide 10:
http://artisanelearning.com/elearninguncovered.com/resources/Studio13/Practice%20Files/Published/presentation.htmlDownload the file here (FYI: includes the entire set of our Studio practice files):
http://artisanelearning.com/elearninguncovered.com/resources/Studio13/Practice%20Files/Download/Studio%2013%20Practice%20Files.zip