Interactive Narrative

Our brief is to..

• Produce an interactive narrative using still images positioned onto the Timeline in Flash CS3.

• This interactive narrative should utilise a branching structure that forces the user to make a number of decisions as they progress through the narrative piece.

• Narrative should be the primary concern.

For this I want to do something where I can use my own drawings for the still images. I think that creating something for younger people would be perfect with cartoon like images as the drawings do not have to be amazingly detailed. It may be a lot of work though and it might be hard to think of a good story. I have been looking at childrens websites like Jackanory and Dora the Explorer. They have bright simple cartoon images where the objects in them are easy to recognize.

I don't know if I should make it a learning based interactive narrative, have one where you change the way the character looks, or to just have a simple story like for example the main character has lost something and you have to help them find it by choosing different paths and making choices for them.