Rick Maranta
Rick Maranta
Owner and eLearning Professional at LabRat Learning
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    Rick Maranta

    Owner of LabRat Learning near Toronto, Ontario. We specialize in creating custom online courses for corporate clients both big and small. Big fan of Articulate. Interested in User Experience Design and Gamification.
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Microphone for audio
"I bought a Blue Yeti on sale before Christmas. No regrets. It's not the smallest thing in the world and it is over 100 but worth every pe..."
  • 7 years ago03/29/17 at 10:50 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta commented on the article Creating Animated Characters in E-Learning #163
"Here is another contribution. did this in the summer. It's to mimic a role playing game. http://makethisgo.com/demos/rpg/story.html"
  • 7 years ago03/24/17 at 5:58 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta commented on the article Creating Animated Characters in E-Learning #163
"Here is one of my animated characters. After the initial introduction, you will get to the second screen and make the bunny walk. htt..."
  • 7 years ago03/17/17 at 7:12 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta commented on the article Using Interactive Dials and Knobs in E-Learning #151
"body { font-family: "Calibri","Slate Pro",sans-serif,"sans-serif"; color:#262626 } Thanks so much! Sent from my awesomely weird and wid..."
  • over 7 years ago01/01/17 at 5:15 am (UTC)
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Rick Maranta started a new discussion Christmas Card with Lights you can control
"Just for fun, enjoy this Christmas card created in Articulate Storyline 2 with lights that you can control. http://wp.me/p82Aos-5H  Have..."
  • over 7 years ago12/23/16 at 7:08 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta commented on the article What’s New in the Latest Update of Articulate 360
"Agree. copying multiple triggers would be a real help, particularly if you want to apply them on another slide or scene."
  • over 7 years ago12/17/16 at 10:52 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta commented on the article Using Interactive Dials and Knobs in E-Learning #151
"Nice."
  • over 7 years ago12/01/16 at 10:27 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion More fun with Dials
"Thanks so much. Now I need to add some learning to it! ;-)   "
  • over 7 years ago12/01/16 at 12:34 am (UTC)
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Rick Maranta started a new discussion More fun with Dials
"Here are a few more examples of different things you can do with dials. One example is a space shooter. I use a dial for the ship which c..."
  • over 7 years ago11/30/16 at 3:17 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta commented on the article Using Interactive Dials and Knobs in E-Learning #151
"Here is another I did. This uses 2 dials for the wheels and one to control the speed. It allows for variable speeds. http://makethisgo.co..."
  • over 7 years ago11/29/16 at 8:45 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta commented on the article Using Interactive Dials and Knobs in E-Learning #151
"I am a little late to the party but here is my 2D space-shooter using a Dial for 8 way flight. The collision detection is still a bit won..."
  • over 7 years ago11/28/16 at 10:24 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Looting and simple dungeon crawling example
"Christine Hounsham Hi Richard,  I agree great job and I think the 'animation' of walking looks terrific.  Does the character move alon..."
  • over 7 years ago11/21/16 at 5:13 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Jurassic Park Course
"steve jackson Hey folks, so I have been using this for inspiration to try and create something similar, and have got most of it figure..."
  • over 7 years ago11/18/16 at 9:28 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Looting and simple dungeon crawling example
"Thanks John. I used states for the animation. Whenever the character walked I run a loop that cycles through the walking animations. Ther..."
  • over 7 years ago11/18/16 at 6:17 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta started a new discussion Looting and simple dungeon crawling example
"This is rough demo of how you can do an RPG-like game with exploration with loot collection, pseudo-collision detection and 4 way movemen..."
  • over 7 years ago11/08/16 at 10:02 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Playing with some game concepts.
"Hi Jeff. That sounds great. I used a slider and replaced the button with that green graphic you see and made the boarder and track transp..."
  • over 7 years ago11/08/16 at 9:16 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Playing with some game concepts.
"Thanks Lewis. Yes, that is definitely something I thought would be great to implement. "
  • over 7 years ago11/08/16 at 6:14 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta started a new discussion Playing with some game concepts.
"This is more of a work-in-progress experiment. I started playing around with some different concepts borrowed from games and different te..."
  • over 7 years ago11/07/16 at 9:13 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Something fun that's never been done before within Storyline!
"Really great. So many great ideas in there. It just shows you how many different ways there are to do things. "
  • over 7 years ago11/07/16 at 8:46 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta added the course Playing with Game Concepts
"A work in progress where I am experimenting with various game concepts and techniques."
  • over 7 years ago11/07/16 at 8:43 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Jurassic Park Course
"Great job Jordan. I have been playing around with this sort of thing. Looks fantastic. "
  • over 7 years ago10/26/16 at 8:33 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Move or resize image, resizes and moves only Normal state
"Thanks Ashley, yes, I did submit a feature request. I can see what you are saying but perhaps there would be away to have an option wher..."
  • over 7 years ago09/29/16 at 2:49 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Move or resize image, resizes and moves only Normal state
"I'll probably do that. Thanks!"
  • over 7 years ago09/28/16 at 8:23 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta replied to the discussion Move or resize image, resizes and moves only Normal state
"Thanks so much Dave. I thought I was going loopy. Wow that is a pain. I would like to see this addressed if possible. I am doing a bunch ..."
  • over 7 years ago09/28/16 at 7:50 pm (UTC)
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Rick Maranta started a new discussion Move or resize image, resizes and moves only Normal state
"I am having a recurring issue in StoryLine 2 where when, after editing my states and getting them the right size and shape so that there ..."
  • over 7 years ago09/28/16 at 6:01 pm (UTC)