Week 5: Interactive Comic- Cara & Helen (Cara’s Reflection)

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~kd2130/Wk6_Comic/comicindex.html

attached is a working link to our interactive comic.

During the process of creating this comic, we tried to come up with a light-hearted storyline, so we thought vegetables would be a good place to start! I told my partner about the possibility of doing a vegetable storyline on a group of veggies running away from their farm to seek a safe haven at the grocery store. Then our story diverges into two different endings, one ending in tragedy, another ending in safety. We have two interactive portions, where the user can click on a button to trigger a theme music that will play in the background. Another interactive portion is when the storyline diverges, and the user needs to make a choice on which path to take, which will ultimately result in how the story ends. 

For the code I came up with a code using counter to click over each image to take you to the next. The way that the visuals were divided were 50/50, where my partner and I split the work for the beginning of the story, and where the story diverges, my partner and I worked on our own endings. As for the code, I found the solution to use counter to flip through every image while keeping the comic in the center of the browser for a more uniform appearance. We used photoshop to create our visuals because that was one of the platforms that we were both comfortable using in a timely fashion to finish our comic on time. 

I feel as though our project met the goals I had set out for it, because we found a way to implement the audio to our project as well as set a diverging path to our story, which were the two main things I wanted to accomplish in our comic. We also planned our time accordingly so we could have a nice storyline with a problem and a resolution. 

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