Jurassic Park Course
Aug 15, 2016
Hi Heroes,
I have just finished creating a new course using a moving panoramic background to navigate through the course.
http://jordanashportfolio.s3.amazonaws.com/Jurassic%20Park/story.html
This course is based on the famous scene from Jurassic Park 1 where the car is travelling through the dinosaur enclosures and the T-Rex breaks out.
I started by creating the background on the slide which is stretched far beyond the end of the timeline.
I then grouped all the elements of the background together and applied a motion path to the left which is set to loop until the end of the timeline and to have a relative start point.
I then applied spin animations to the wheels of the car and had these loop until the end of the slide as well.
After this I have set the timeline of the slide to be paused whenever the state of the car is not 'down'. This means that whenever the user is not holding their cursor on the car, it will appear as if it has stopped moving. When the user presses down on the car, the timeline will resume and will show the car and background moving again.
In the second half of the course I have continued with the moving panoramic background but I have set this to play automatically. The timeline will pause at four specific points where a question will be displayed. If the user answers this correctly the car motion path away from the T-Rex. But if they answer incorrectly the car will move backwards slightly. If the learner answers incorrectly twice they will be eaten and will have to restart the quiz.
Most of the graphics in this course were put together using basic shapes in PowerPoint, some of these were then turned into gifs to give them a little more character.
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This is Great Jordan, I have only recently used the same trick on a car animation works really well. Thanks for sharing.
This is awesome! How did you get the music to play throughout the game?
Great job and fun to do. It will be interesting to try it again and let the T Rex catch the car.
Excellent work Jordan!
Great work Jordan, love how you animated and the sound effect and background.
Awesome!
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This is completely epic!! 👍
Really superb! Jordan. So engaging and awesome music along with that thunder sounds...made me feel I was in that place...
Really wonderful...
Jordan, this is so cool. Thanks for sharing your work...and explaining how you built it.
Jordan this is engaging and very well designed!! Thanks for sharing your process!!
Hi Jordan! Thanks so much for sharing this awesome demo. I just added it to our Examples hub here so that other folks will get to run from T-Rexes, too.
Hi Jordan,
I can't believe I am just seeing this. Your animation, sound effects and design are amazing, engaging, clever and fun! I learned a lot about dinosaurs and almost escaped being eaten by the T-Rex. I can't wait until a project presents itself that allows me to use that panoramic effect with user controlled stop and go action. Brilliant!
This is terrific!!! I have downloaded it to my "things i might need some day" map and i plan to recreate it with my own design in order to have in my portfolio.
Applaudes!!!
Hi Jordan, I really enyoyed your work , I would like you to visit me on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0-R3NQHLZI . You will find an experience with dinosaurs.
Bye.
This is amazing! We are truly only limited by our imaginations. Wow! Great job Jordan!!!
So creative and fun! By chance did you try to test this on mobile?
That is amazing and clearly takes a lot of skill to set up. Beautifully done!
So much fun and educational! Thank you for sharing it!
This was great! Super fun and interactive. Thank you for sharing!
Inventive use of the panorama -- thanks for sharing!!
Amazing creativity Jordan!
Well done! I am new to creating in Storyline and to see the capabilities is very impressive!
Hi Leigh,
I did try and test this on several mobile devices and the results seemed to change depending on my internet strength. Certain features like the timing of motion paths seemed to either speed up or slow down when I was on a poor 3G connection.
It might work better if you are able to predownload the file using the articulate mobile player.
Hi Bryan,
The course is run on a single slide across a number of layers in order to have the music play continuously in the background. Here is the story file should you want to have a look at this.