This project actually made a lot of sense to me having done the tutorial in class. As in, I didn’t really have to fumble around with knowing how to work the program, it seemed to make sense for the most part. Originally, trying to conceive an idea, I thought it would end up boring to just do a congratulations card, so I wanted to do something different. I was going to try and make some mountain assets to put in but they just weren’t looking good for the LOTR (Lord of the Rings) style greeting card I had in mind so I decided to change gears. Ultimately, I decided I wanted to try making a survey, with different taps leading you to different actions and pages, like a choose your adventure book or game.
I didn’t think I should let it get too complex, both for my sake and I think it’d have to really be something special for someone to want to putz with my Aero project for more than a minute. I decided to do a survey about my favorite beverage ‘Diet Coke’. First I began by writing out the script of how I wanted each interaction to go, directing the flow of the card. Next, I put the script into Adobe Illustrator and exported all the individual pieces of dialogue out as PNG’s. I needed some pictures and sound clips as well so I took those off of google images and youtube as I needed. Some minor editing to the audio clips was necessary, so I just did the trimming in quicktime and reconverted those MP4s back into MP3s so I could use them, which was probably the most annoying part of the process.
I’d say actually putting all of this into Aero wasn’t too hard, it basically went as I had planned when writing all the dialogue out. One problem I thought would happen was that I had written a planned “Yes or No” question, with a “No” response leading you to choose if you wanted to retake the survey. I wasn’t sure if the program would loop back to the first question or if I would have to copy or re(animate?) the entire rest of the survey to happen again. But Aero knew to just loop it back and the survey could continue as normal. That was a big bonus and time save for me. Aside from that, the only other thing was adjusting the right size of the card and distance from the screen to make sure everything could be viewed correctly, but after some test previews I finally got it to where I wanted it and, I’m pretty happy with it! It’s pretty fun, I think adding some creative features would be nice but it was a very fun beta to play around with.