Military Storyline characters

May 20, 2012

Hi, I've just started developing  eLearning. There is a good range of characters including ones that look medical. Does anyone know if there are going to be military ones and if so would there be a change of uniform or at least colour?

16 Replies
Bruce Graham

Steven,

Bearing in mind the Global nature of the customer base, and the way that software needs to appeal to all customer, I am not sure that any software company like Articulate would ever offer a military character set.

I think that's something you are going to have to source yourself, or obtain from a niche/custom supplier.

Bruce

Steven Bland

Global - thats my point I would think that as Storyline becomes more successful they would introduce more professions, military is just an example. But they could include flight attendants, sports instructor, police officer, nurse or Christmas or other seasonal characters. They only need to due 2-3 sets per profession and it would be so easy for them to do.

Bruce Graham

Steven,

Whilst I agree in principle, (and it is something that was discussed many times during the beta), our (UK) military for example, would look different from US, from French, from Dutch etc etc.

Whilst imagery adds to courses, people see it and consciously or subconsciously go "That doesn't look much like me...", and you lose your learner before you start.

It's hard enough to get realistic and useable "generic" images without starting on trying to create generic professions.

There is a huge market for images like this, one that is being investigated actively by a number of people

I really think it needs to be handled at the country level.

Bruce