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Originally Posted by scottjl
I highly doubt the people who threw together Alice spent 2 years doing the coding. You probably have never taken any time to do any sort of development but there are wonderful tools out there that will automate all sorts of animation and code development for you.
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Absolutely. And such powerful tools aren't new either. I put together a couple of interactive computer books for teaching purposes using a program called Opus. I was able to scan the artwork in for the pages, add lines of multiple choice text that would trigger a range of animated responses depending on which was selected, add sound effects to clickable hotspots, include sound files that provided a voice reading of the story text, and so on. It then compiled it all into a standalone file that could be run independently.
The only training I did was reading the manual. That was over five years ago, so goodness knows what you can do now.
Cheers,
Chris