The Field Museum of Chicago: S.O.S. - Save Our Soil Game Interactive Game

This interactive game is part of a permanent exhibit at the Field Museum called Underground Adventure.

This game allows museum visitors to "become" a Farmer, Gardener, Land Planner or Ecologist. Users make decisions about how to care for their soil and to learn what the short and long term consequences of those decisions are. Each scenario required eight different illustrations of the short and long term results of the land they were effecting.

A special feature of this application was the use of Microsoft Active X Agents as narrators. These characters, designed by Joel Farrel, were lip synced with the audio narration. I created the mouth positions for each character and assembled them using the Active X Agent program. The text also appeared in balloons which helped us to easily comply with ADA standards.

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