Interactive Narrative Research ...

We were shown examples at our seminar of flash technology and interactive narratives such as the "dont shoot the puppy" flash game which was quite simple and looked like it was quite easily made, but i decided it would be best to do some extra research into existing flash interfaces and narrative games.

It seems that in modern day most small gaming websites use flash created games as forms of small entertainment like arcade websites, I know when I was in school we used to go onto gaming websites such as,

www.miniclip.com - and play games when we weren't supposed to which used flash such as small driving games and platform shooters.

www.newgrounds.com - which has a large collection of flash games and animation which is generally quite famous amongst teenage gaming culture, newgrounds gaming developers have also started professional game development such as the game castle crashers, alien hominid and behemoth which are available to purchase for gaming consoles such as the xbox 360 arcade where mini games can be purchased using microsoft points. This gives inspiration to flash users and game designers which shows you can become game developers if you start off small and work your way up.

As well as gaming websites, I found with my research that flash is also used a lot in professional website design for corporate websites and for design companies.

This also applies to design websites for the creative community, it seems a lot of the creativeness has branched out into web design and general digital design as a form of art.

One flash website i found intriguing and well designed is,

www.djnr.com

It is a website that the designer himself has made as a web based portfolio for him self as a designer for web and other creative projects to show off his skill sets to his clients. I feel it is very professionally designed and showcases his versitile talents as a designer, i hope to one day create my own website to showcase my work as an online portfolio to the same standard as he has done.

On his website the background cctv like video also shows him working throughout the day as the clock is like a timer on the bottom and fills from left to upper right of the screen, showing himself working throughout the day at his work desk in a professional manner, possibly to show to the client his typical day at work and that he is a hard worker and worth investing in.

Its a really good website and I advice you check it out for some inspiration, also take a look at some of his work ... very nice !!!