Interactive Online Community

Hi Guys,

I've created an interactive house in Flash where users can interactive with surroundings (message boards etc...) and other users. It took me about 8 months on and off to complete and i'm about to release it to the world. But before i do i was wondering if i could get some options/criticisms on the thing.

I'm hoping no one is gonna rip off any of my work. It took me ages....At least ask first anyway...

Check it out here.

....oh and any job offers should be sent to mark AT creativefromwithin DOT co DOT uk :p

pretty cool :thumbsup:

-Phil

no criticism at all? How long were you waiting for it to load?

Very good job dude. I like the creativity of this site and the navigation is simple. It is cool in how it makes you look around and search. Good job.

It loaded in a few seconds, no biggy.

Comments:
The "brake in" part is kinda annoying... It doesn't take a genius to figure out what to click either since you can just press tab to highlight all the buttons. It just slows the user down from using all the cool stuff. Some people might not even be able to get in.

Add more things to do once inside the house. Right now there's not much to do once you've seen every room.

my 0.02

I had to put the break in game at the start to stop users waiting so long. It's 5 mbs so it would be annoying to watch the bar go all the way up. Thought i'd give them something to do whilst it's loading.

I didn't realise you could do that with the tab! It's meant to be quick easy so people can get in.

There's quite a bit of stuff to look at once you're in...did you look at the to-do list on the lounge floor?

Cheers for the comments.

Sorry it was just too much work for me to get in and get to any content :(

speed it up and show me the $ quicker.

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Originally Posted by marcovb323

I had to put the break in game at the start to stop users waiting so long. It's 5 mbs so it would be annoying to watch the bar go all the way up. Thought i'd give them something to do whilst it's loading.

I didn't realise you could do that with the tab! It's meant to be quick easy so people can get in.

There's quite a bit of stuff to look at once you're in...did you look at the to-do list on the lounge floor?

Cheers for the comments.

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in that case, it's pretty clever. I didn't know it was loading 5megs in the background :thumbsup: still might want to tweak it a bit somehow

Yeah I seen the list, but if you don't want to listen to music or don't have a web cam it gets pretty boring pretty fast. How about adding daily or weekly videos on the TV? It would keep people coming back for more. A game with high scores would also bring people back. .... Don't mind me, i'm just thinking outloud

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Originally Posted by PRadvan

in that case, it's pretty clever. I didn't know it was loading 5megs in the background :thumbsup: still might want to tweak it a bit somehow

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Yea, like maybe have small a bar on that page to let me know what's going on while I get frustrated trying to break in :)

That's great!