Fun Animated Timer for Gamification Projects

Hi Articulate heroes,

I wanted to highlight one very fast but fun-looking way to create timers for interactive projects.

I've learned about this way from "Gamification Series; 05: Creating Tension with Timers." You can check out these amazing webinars Gamification series, and there was a few different ways to add timers to projects.

I used it in my recent project "Cooking Frienzy" - Jeopardy-style cooking-game. (btw you can check out the full game: Cooking Frienzy 

So, here are the steps:
1) Create / find a "timer" picture - it could be any image with transparent background what works for your theme (in my case it is "Pomodoro" timer, made with AI help, saved as .png )
2) Add this image as a picture (insert an image).
3) Go to Animation tab 
4) Choose Exit Animation -  "Wipe", go to "Effect Options" - "From Right".
Set the animation timer for whatever time you need (10 sec., 30 sec., 1 min etc.)

5) Set triggers to what will happen after the timer is done (animation completed): i.e. jump to the next slide, show "result-fail" etc.
6) Preview and adjust if needed 🤞