About Whirligig Productions
The Whirligig player has been the core of my efforts and what I've been spending the last three years working on. Although at it's heart it is a media player with front facing features that I hope add functionality and usability to the process of media playback I have also been working on an interactive media back end. This allows Whirligig player's engine to be reconfigured to build interactive media.
To create the interactive media I've developed the 'Whirligig producer' Which uses the core of Whirligig player and gives you the ability to add media, set multiple options for each media, link to other media and much more.
Whirligig productions is my way to bring both the production of the 'Whirligig producer' and the game I wish to create using it.
What can be made with Whirligig Producer
I've tried to make the options within Whirligig as varied as possible so allow the Whirligig Producer the widest number of uses. Here are a few that it is capable of.
- Single play video demos.
- Multiple video menu playback demos.
- interactive walk throughs.
- Exhibition space video playback.
- Interactive stories (adventure games similar to Return to Zork).
Interactive Stories
One of the biggest things that I'm interested in is making interactive stories. This requires a wide range of features such as a save system, inventory system, if and or system and much more. This is the biggest drive for the producer. If I manage to create a way to make interactive stories then all other uses become avialible. It also drives the continuing updates of Whirligig player. For this reason I am going to be making a game using Whirligig Producer. This is the ultimate aim and during the development of the game I'll be developing the player to incorparate the required features, the producer to allow me to implement them and I'll be releasing updates here of the game and the producer so other can try it out and start building there own stories.
