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Storyline Demo: ‘Risk Towers’ – with immersive graphics and sound
We’ve recently started using Articulate Storyline (March 2013) and wanted to share with the community what we’ve produced so far. The course is called ‘Risk Management’ and is set in a fictional building called ‘Risk Towers’ where learners discover what they need to know about risk management. We’ve spent a lot of time on the graphics and sound to make it more immersive - hopefully this has paid off but we’d love to hear your thoughts!
http://demo.unicorntraining.com/ClientArea/Storyline/RiskManagement/story.html
Many thanks,
Steve
64 Replies
- CherylDaubney2Community Member
Love the concept and the look of the course. Wish I had access to graphics as great quality as yours! As a learner I found it a little hard to connect with the content at times (the text seemed a bit 'samey' to me after a while) but I liked the way you linked business risk to personal risk. Compared to other courses about Risk (have had to create one or two myself!) keeping it interesting and appealing the way you guys have done is a triumph!
- SophiaXu1Community Member
Hi Steve: Great design and idea. Love the cohesive look and the activities built in. Thank you for sharing. It inspires me to be brave and "crazy" with my fair lending class.
A question: how did your team get the graphics like this? desined or purchased?
Thank you
Sophia
- NicoleDuclosCommunity Member
Amazing! Very inspirational - thank you so much for sharing!
- OlgaOrritCommunity Member
very nice! I like all the hints on the screen.
- LindaLorenzettiSuper Hero
Love this Steve, great job! Very rich look and feel to this. Hard to believe that you are new to Storyline.
- NadineLacelleCommunity Member
WOW, great job! Gives me lots of ideas
- KevinThornSuper Hero
Nicely done Steve!
I took some time to study the instructional flow and pseudo mapped out a storyboard in my head. I'll bet a summer lemonade that it's not a very complex instructional design at all. It's the STORY you're telling along the way that motivates learners through the content.
I'll also bet a slice of juicy watermelon that majority of the development of this course was sourcing the proper images and graphics and some of the custom graphic work (candy bars) that were needed. Little subtle differences in visuals make a world of difference to what otherwise would be dry content.
By far the best example on the topic of Risk Management I've seen!
- MatKCommunity Member
Really great stuff Steven...so great in fact that I chose to post for the first time here!
The rooms/environments are incredible. I'm assuming you hired an illustrator to custom create them for you?
- AnaVictóriaCommunity Member
Wonderful!
- StevenAndrewsCommunity Member
Thanks again for the feedback folks. We're really lucky in that we have a team of talented graphic designers and illustrators to rely on.
Since we started using Storyline, we're spending less time actually building courses and more time adding polish and thinking about how best to present information. I think that's down to how easy Storyline is to use and the speed at which it allows you to build.
I think there's a sweet spot between making a tool powerful enough to do what most people want and keeping it simple enough that most people will want to use it. For me, Storyline pretty much nails that.