Hello all

I have currently involved my self in the development of a program that can be used for creating interactive media projects, such as comic books and movies.

The Idea behind it started as a personal test project, because i have always enjoyed making comics and movies etc using Poser and other 3d applications, but thought it could be fun if you could actually make them interactive, so the viewer could decide how the story evolves. But imagined that other users here my find something like this enjoyable as well, so decided to make it into a product, that I hopefully will be able to release here on renderosity when its finished.

Since its currently based on my own experience and what i think such program should contain, I would like to hear from others that might find something like this useful or fun and whether they have some ideas to, what would be good to have in such program.

An quick overview of the program so far

• The program is organized into pages like a book. Each page can then contain a scene which can hold images, movies, audio, triggers etc. And these pages will be linked together based on how the story should be played out based on viewers decisions or the person designing it. Much like one of those books where you read a text and then "Go to page 50" etc.  

• Ability to add images.

• Ability to add movies.

• Ability to add sound and music.

• Ability to add text elements.

• Ability to use mouse cursors when over a button.

• Ability to add progress bars which can be used to pressure viewers to make quick decisions.

• Trigger system, which is the backbone of making the projects interactive.

• Trigger type Click - Allow an image or text to be used as a button.

• Trigger type Timer - Works as a counter, which can be used with a progress bar or a text object. Can also be used for automatically changing pages.

• Trigger type Go to page - Will allow you to go to a specific page, and is how pages are linked together and in end make the story interactive.

• Trigger type Movie - When a movie is done playing it will fire a trigger. 

• Subtitle functionality - Will allow you to create and add subtitles to movies.

To be added

• Attribute system that will allow you to add and test vs custom created variables. Which can be used for keeping track of whether the viewers have picked something up. If there is a health system in the project and so forth. 

• Randomization will allow you to test custom variables vs a random roll like a dice. Which again can be used to maybe make the projects more into a game or to make the stories less linear.  

• UI elements elements that are consistent throughout the whole project and can keep track of stuff like health for instant or if you want to make the project more into a game type of thing, you can add other characteristics as well.

• Speak bubbles like in comic books.

This was a quick overview of the project. Which i hope gives an idea of what its about. So basically what its about is to create stories where you can be the main character in your own stories and share them with others if you like.

Besides the main editor there is also an player, which allow you to view/play the stories.   

Hope some think this could be a fun idea and if you have any suggestions at this early state of what could be useful to add. Then i would appreciate it, as i really want to make it as useful as possible.

Cheers

3D-Mobster