It must have been built in Director.Ī little off subject (as usual), but I just had to say that ALPHABET is my very favorite computer game of all time. At the outset just the eyes and mouth were there on the blank paper.įor some reason print screen didn't work for this, so I had to take camera pix while it was playing out. I had the sound turned off when I drew this one, so I thought it was supposed to be just a head, not the whole monster. Sorry it's blurry, but look how well it integrates into the scene. Dinah was only 7 at the time and loved it too. You could choose the pencil or paint, colors from a silly panorama of paint pots, or textures. The stories were funny and the characters strong.

Wow, I would love to get a chance to work with them now. I actually worked/consulted on a joint project that went nowhere, around 1997, with one or more of the people responsible for this great production. It's a Broderbund production, more than ten years old. I had a hard time getting the program to play, because it was designed for Windows 95. There's music, dancing, funny comments about what you're drawing and the color you've just chosen. The animation goes over your drawing, the paint features stay within the drawn line exactly. The five slabs on the wall are story choices. In this game a Jamaican girl and her frog friend can have various adventures, but you have to draw parts of the story. That I should take another look at a CD-Rom from 1996, Orly Draw a Story.

That I better learn ActionScript 3 sometime soon, After all the recent talk about avant garde hats, I started thinking first,

Draw a story game