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This week’s creepy-yet-practical Articulate challenge is to put together something that will help us prepare for – and survive – the upcoming Zombie Apocalypse. My idea may not have the best success rate, but it’s all I’ve got.
The Idea
Zombie
Sticker
Inspiration
It started with some dollar store scratch-n-sniff zombie stickers. (I haven’t been curious enough to find out what zombies smell like yet.) But I started to notice categories (food, drink) and sketched out an interaction where a perky person was doing zombie market research. When outcomes for that seemed too limited, I came up with the dating idea.
Creepy Setting — Perky Person
I knew contrast would be key. Lovely, safe, familiar things needed to be set in high relief against their opposites; hence the choices for music, fonts, script, people, food, drink, and everything else.
Tough Choices
The Interaction
Theme
It’s all bad-horror-movie inspired, including the intro with that awesome True Crimes font. Add some of Storyline 2’s new animations and it’s a pretty good title screen.
Slider
This time I filled the thumb with an image of a zombie hand and used no visible track. You slide and release the hand to choose, which seems intuitive. The only downside of using the slide-and-release option was that when I published to HTML5 it treated triggers as though they were part of a while-slider-is-dragged version – so I republished without HTML5.
Options & Outcomes
There are 3 possible outcomes. One based on zombie choices, one based on my own personal choices (largely unlike zombie ones; though lines get blurred in a couple of categories), and one somewhere in between.
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Try it Out!
Who’s your perfect match? Give it a try and find out… if you DARE.
Great entry Jackie, the script, sound effects, and visuals all work beautifully together and your comedic timing is impeccable.
Hey – thanks Dan! I’m glad you enjoyed it. :)
Creative and entirely entertaining. Thanks, Jackie, for sharing your ideas.
Hi Amber – You’re so welcome! I’m glad you liked it. (And thanks for your comment!)
Great work as always Jackie! I really love your use of humor and sound effects in this one.
Thank you, Matt!!
Jackie!
Another wonderful design. I used to wait to look at others work until I finish my own. After this, I may have to wait until you submit and then look at yours first. I think it will improve my creativity!
You do wonderful work!!!
Hi Richard!
I’m glad you like this one. I loved your zombie entry, too!
Your work is so creative and beautiful to begin with you don’t even need someone like me to inspire you. You’re good to go. (But I’ll take the compliment – thank you!!)
And thanks for stopping by. :)