Awesome Games and Interactions for Articulate Presenter

If you’ve been coming to this site for awhile you probably know that we build a lot of custom flash games/quizzes/interactions for eLearning developers. I want to take a moment and focus on how the templates work with Articulate.

eLearning Games

Each of the games is created in Flash and has scoring and looks amazing. A learner answers various questions and gets feedback and a running score. Every game comes with the .fla file so that you can customize everything until your heart is content.

However, if you don’t know flash very well, that’s ok. All you have to do is insert your question text into the movie clips in the library. (a tutorial is included with every .fla and there are videos on our template tutorial site.

There are 8 games available right now:

eLearning Interactions

Ever wish that you have tons of interactive page layouts just ready and waiting? Now you can! We’ve created 4 different designs of interactive flash layouts. Pages with tabs and sections, scenarios, drag and drops, flash cards, quizzes, and more! Each set has over 30 interactive layouts.

All you need to do is add your text to the text movieclip in flash and publish. Here are some samples:

Using Templates and Games in Articulate Presenter

Here are the steps to use these flash templates in Articulate:

1. Add the text that you want to see in your game/interaction to the appropriate movieclip in Flash.

2. Publish the flash movie as .swf

3. In PowerPoint go to Articulate / Flash Movie

4. Select your .swf

5. From the Insert Flash Movie window choose these settings:

• Display in slide
• Advance to next slide “When user clicks next”
• Movie plays independently of slide

6. Click OK

That’s it.

Bonus – eLearning PowerPoint Backgrounds

There are also PPT backgrounds available that have over 80 different layouts. We also provide a PPT master template file that you can use to speed up the development process.

(Check out amazing eLearning Games, Flash Interactions, PowerPoint Backgrounds, and eLearning Templates)

eLearning Templates Biggest Bundle

$1500 (Sells separately for $2,670)

8 Flash games, 2 PPT eLearning course style themes AND more than 60 Flash interactions included in this bundle!

These are PPT and Flash based templates that are super easy to update. Each template is fully customizable in Flash (we give you the .fla Flash source file). All you have to do is open Flash, paste your text, publish, and insert into your favorite eLearning Development tool. Made to work within most rapid elearning software (Articulate Presenter, Adobe Captivate, Rapid Intake, Adobe Presenter, PowerPoint and more).

BONUS: Reuse the templates over and over again in multiple courses…or even other websites and presentations.

What’s Included:

• Millionaire Challenge
• GameShow Challenge
• Golf Challenge
• Boardgame Challenge
• Bootcamp Challenge
• Pyramid Challenge
• Spy Challenge
• Shootout Challenge
• Interaction Pack: Clean Corporate (30+ Interactions)
• Interaction Pack: Pulsing Dots (30+ Interactions)
• PPT Course Style Theme: Billboard (80+ files)
• PPT Course Style Theme: Paper & Folders (80+ files)

Specs:

• Files included: fla, psd, ppt, pptx, jpg, swf
• Requirements: Flash 8 or newer (CS, CS2, CS3, CS4)
• Flash Player 8 or newer
• Output size: Final .swf around only 50 KB each
• Output dimensions: 720×540
• Actionscript 2.0

Copyright info

Demos:

Click each of the screenshots below to demo a few of the games and interactions included.

PPT course style samples (just a few)

• Demo PPT Theme: Billboard
• Demo PPT Theme: Paper & Folders

Games

Testimonials:

“I’m really impressed by the professional build up of your templates, so that even an non programmer like me can make the changes in an easy way. Your templates are really excellent add-ons to the Articulate software I am using.” ~ Peter M.

“I just built the Gameboard one for a course we offer, it is fantastic! These are so easy to work with and I am a Flash hater…we will definitely be integrating these into our Articulate courses.” ~ Laurel S.

“Your template is swimmingly easy – the tutorials were very helpful.” ~ Rich V.

Tutorials:

We have an entire website dedicated for tutorials to assist you in customizing these templates.

Free Holiday Flash Game: Santa Attack

Happy Holiday’s from the eLearning Bros!

We whipped up the Santa Attack game just for a little light-hearted fun this holiday season. Enjoy. Brother Shawn’s high score is 1280…we dare you to try and beat it!

If you’d like this free flash game for your own use, just fill out our contact form and mention that you’d like the free santa attack flash game. We’ll email you shortly after with the working .fla file.

Play the game!

Screenshots from the game:

eLearning Templates

Have Fun with your Flash Images!

Ever wanted to make your photographs a bit more “stylized” or look more like an illustration or cartoon? Here is a quick tip on how to use Flash to turn your bitmap images into vectors.

1. Import image onto the Flash stage.

2. Select the image.

3. Select Modify / Bitmap / Trace Bitmap.

4. Adjust the settings as desired.

Here is the details about the settings (From Adobe Tech Notes): Color Threshold: The range is from 1 to 500. This setting determines the degree to which one pixel may vary in color from adjoining pixels before Flash interprets them as different colors. As you increase the threshold value, you decrease the number of colors. Minimum Area: The range is from 1 to 1000. This setting determines the size in pixels of each shape generated by the trace. The lower the setting, the smaller the shapes generated. Curve Fit: This menu has six settings that range from Pixels to Very Smooth. These menu settings determine how closely the edges between the individual vector shapes conform to the bitmap colors. The Very Smooth setting draws longer curves, while the Pixels setting creates many short curves. Corner Threshold: This menu has three settings; Many Corners, Normal, and Few Corners. These menu settings control the degree a single curve can bend before breaking into two separate curves with corners. Many Corners will yield a smoother line.

5. Viola! Fun images that you can use to add a bit of style. You can also manipulate the colors and backgrounds.

Here are a few examples:

Check out our eLearning games and Flash interactions!

Free online Flash Tutorials for eLearning Templates

We are pleased to announce our new Flash eLearning Template Tutorials website. This website is dedicated to providing you with useful screencast video tutorials. We will continue adding to it weekly, and as always…feel welcome to request a screencast if you need additional help.

Flash Tutorials Webpage

eLearning Templates

Hope you enjoy…

Spy Challenge eLearning Flash Game Template

Another great Flash eLearning game template from e-LearningTemplates.com.

This is a Flash based template that is super easy to update. Each template is fully customizable in Flash (we give you the .fla Flash source file). Made to work within most rapid elearning software (Articulate Presenter, Adobe Captivate, Rapid Intake, Adobe Presenter, PowerPoint and more).

BONUS: Reuse the templates over and over again in multiple courses…or even other websites and presentations.

Specs:

Files included: .Fla and .swf
Requirements: Flash 8 or newer
File size: Final .swf only 144 KB
Output dimensions: 720×540

Flash eLearning Multi-Game Bundle #2

We have just bundled another amazing group of elearning flash game templates.

Visit e-LearningTemplates.com for additional details.

$225 Value! – 4 Games included in this bundle:

Golf Challenge
ShootOut Challenge
BootCamp Challenge
Spy Challenge

These are Flash based templates that are super easy to update. Each template is fully customizable in Flash (we give you the .fla Flash source file). Made to work within most rapid elearning software (Articulate Presenter, Adobe Captivate, Rapid Intake, Adobe Presenter, PowerPoint and more).

BONUS: Reuse the templates over and over again in multiple courses…or even other websites and presentations.

Specs:

Files included: .Fla and .swf
Requirements: Flash 8 or newer
Output dimensions: 720×540

Create Click Alerts in Flash

In this post I show you how to create a button with a “click alert” on it which is a slight animation that indicates to the user that they should interact with the button. The click alert will also gray out after being clicked.

You can use this tutorial to create flash eLearning interactions that indicate to the user that some action is needed. (hey you….click on me!) Also once they’ve clicked on it, you must have it visually change so that they know they’ve already been there.

Here’s the click alert example that I’ll show you how to create:

1. Create a movie clip with whatever animation you want as your “click alert”. For example in this sample alert I’ve created a red circle with a small rotating outline. Notice that the animation goes from frame 1 to frame 20 and then has an action that sends it back to frame 1. Basically I put a frame label named “home” on frame 1 and on frame 20 I put gotoAndPlay(”home”); so that it loops.

2. In your animation movie clip create one frame at the end of the animation that is a “clicked state” frame. So in other words, what will this click alert look like after a user clicks on it? In my sample it grays out and the animation stops. (frame 21) I added a color tint of gray to create mine.

3. Drop the movie clip on your timeline and give it an instance name. (I used “clickalert”)

4. Create another layer (below the layer with your alert) and insert any button that you want. I used a document icon with the words “Course Summary”.

5. Add the action script to your button to launch the url, document, or go to a specific movie frame and to have your click alert go its “clicked state”.  Below is the code I used on the button. (Only use the click alert code and one of the other snippets. Don’t use both the getURL and this.gotoAndStop.

on (release) { //Start Behavior – This code launches a document or url getURL(”http://www.yoursitenamehere.com”,”_self”); //End Behavior //This code goes to and stops at a certain frame of your flash timeline (this example uses frame 50) this.gotoAndStop(”50″); //End Behavior //This code goes to a movie clip with an instance name of clickalert and goes to (and stops) at frame 21 within that movie clip. That is the frame that I created as my grayed-out frame. this.clickalert.gotoAndStop(”21″); //End Behavior }

Here are some eLearning Flash Templates that use click alerts: Grunge City Ray Clean Corporate Pulsing Dots

Flash Interactions Pack: Grunge

Included in this PACK are over 30 amazing Flash based templates that are super easy to update. Instructions are included within each of the files. Each template is fully customizable in Flash (we give you the .fla Flash source file). Made to work within most rapid elearning software (Articulate Presenter, Adobe Captivate, Rapid Intake, Adobe Presenter, PowerPoint and more). Reuse the templates over and over again in multiple courses…or even other websites and presentations.

e-Learning Templates

Flash Interactions Pack: Pulsing Dots

Included in this PACK are over 30 amazing Flash based templates that are super easy to update. Instructions are included within each of the files. Each template is fully customizable in Flash (we give you the .fla Flash source file). Made to work within most rapid elearning software (Articulate Presenter, Adobe Captivate, Rapid Intake, Adobe Presenter, PowerPoint and more). Reuse the templates over and over again in multiple courses…or even other websites and presentations.

e-Learning Templates

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