Hi all, i wanted to share a unifinshed developed game that I was working on a few years back. Despite it not being finished, I was happy with where it was heading and wanted to showcase some of the work that went into it. The idea was to create a game based on the fitting process of a particular contact lens. The end product would walk the user the the fitting steps required as well as show how the decisions made in the process can effect the patient in question. I had previously created an animation for them so the idea was to utilize this animation for assets in order to bring the content to life.

The original brief was for this to be flash based and for it be accessed through a desktop browser (shows how far back we are going!). So based on this i built a demo that was to those specs which of course allowed me to make great use of the video feature! the initial demo is below.

But then they announced that flash was to be fazed out and so the client now changed the spec to create a game that ran across MULTIPLE mobile devices and be based in html5. It quickly became apparent that what I had built was not going to work and the video feature was not working as I needed it to on the devices. So after much freaking out, i came up with another solution – create animated giffs and assemble them on the time line to create the effect needed. This worked perfect and ran smoothly on the all devices (see below). I ensured i tested on old devices to make sure this was as usuable as it could be across multiple platforms and devices so ended up testing with an iPad 1, Ip[hone 4 and a very old galaxy tab.

Desktop Browser

Mobile Browsers

The above versions are all based on build version 2. i did initially get quite far into build 1 before the client wanted to change the structure of the learning and essentially I had to start from scratch… again!. I have shown build 1 below, please bear in mind though that this is unfinished and there is a lot of place holder artwork there whilst the final designs were being signed of for client. The opening segments are mostly complete but the back end was still being built.

I hope you’ve enjoyed some of whats shown and hopefully help some out with ideas of what is possible with captivate! I enjoyed building it, it was my first ever project in captivate and I was learning as I went along.