For our seminar with David & Shaun we were asked to do a task. For David to review a website & for Shaun to find 3 interactive medias that we liked. So this post is gonna kill 2 birds with 1 stone.
This website is an interactive entertainment website for pre-schoolers based on the BooBahs TV programme. The age range that the programme normally is aimed at is 3 - 5 years old. What is particularly good about this website is that there is no text at all. This makes it easy for children to use as they can't read at all or can read very little.
Every aspect of the website is interactive, full of different sounds, movements & activities to do. Everywhere you click it leads to a different page with something different to do. The fact that it is so diverse and has all of these interactive components helps to keep the children entertained. The use of bold, bright colours also adds to this effect.
The above image is the home page. As the cursor rolls over different components, different sounds can be heard and different animations occur. The coloured spots at the top of the page all lead to different pages with different activities to do. This also goes for the characters & the present in the centre of the page.
The image above is an example of one of the activities available for children to do. Even though the website looks like it's been made by a bunch of fairies on crack, i'll definitely give it 10/10 for practicality!
Interactive 2 - Plants vs Zombies Application
Plants vs. Zombies is a tower defense action video game developed and originally published by PopCap Games for Microsoft Windowsand Mac OS X. The game involves a homeowner using many varieties of plants to repel an army of zombies from "eating their brains". I have this application on my iPhone and I can honestly say it's a guilty pleasure. I love the range of different characters involved & that each level is set in different environments. Not only is there the main game, there is also a series of mini games that incorporates the same characters. A new aspect to the game is the Zen Garden, where you can grow your own plants & sell them in order to make money faster to buy new plants/tools.
The App itself is very easy to use. You get a tutorial in how to play the game when you first play it and the same goes for the mini games. I have spent many hours on this game & I can say it is definitely one of the most entertaining!
Thanks to this little gem of a game, I now know how to survive a zombie apocalypse. I'm just hoping plants evolve on time!
This is the online portfolio for Web Designer & Illustrator Mauricio Guimaraes. I love how he incorporates both of his practices into one webstie. As soon as you go onto his website, you can immediately see what he is capable of. Even though it has been built in flash and can sometimes take a while to load, I think it is a well thought out creative website. You can navigate around the "map" to find the different parts of his site. If you have difficulty finding things then there are links at the bottom of the screen. The theme, style & colour scheme is kept throughout the website & the text is legible. I think the text could do with being a little bit bigger & the navigation around the map is a bit slow. All in all, it helps to express what Mauricio is all about & is a good way to present a work portfolio.
hahah this made me larfff x
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