I didn't take time to.check your comments but anybody told you about prezi which would be another alternative to.ppt?
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Yep...it's in the comments. :D
And unfortunately, Prezi is no longer free, and also doesn't handle the complexity of action that I'm using. I'm actually drawing custom-shaped objects, making them transparent, then attaching actions to them on the click event. Prezi doesn't appear to be able to do that.
Thanks for the idea, though. I've already created the event based upon the conversation in this thread: Junk Drawer Extravaganza! You should go there, have fun, and try to win some free stuff. :)
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what !! it's not free anymore :( this is sad.
what you did is indeed more or less doable in prezi format, but it's really well done like it is ! congrats on the creativity, mayby i'll try a prezi GA in some time, I have a cakeday coming in some time it'll be dedicated to you ;)
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Ha ha ha...well, thanks, I'm kind of flattered. I actually really like Powerpoint and I have it at my disposal, so it seemed logical to use it if it would work. I really just didn't want to break the sign-up-for-stuff rule if I didn't have to (although I think the spirit behind it is to prevent the equivalent of the spammy game giveaways where you have to sign up for groups and twitter and blah blah blah...not to be able to use a tool. All the same, I get why it's there and try to abide by it if I can).
Anyway, hope you're having fun, and if this works well, I may do another in the future with Powerpoint or Prezi or whatever else works. 😎🤓
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For anyone still wondering, this all got sorted out and now we have the Junk Drawer Extravaganza as the result! Go sort through my junk drawers and try to win some free games! Good luck!
Ok, so most people around SG know that I like to do some fairly, er...interesting trains or alternate ways of giving away tons of keys (like the Trash Tornado™). I have an idea that I don't want to fully explain yet (because it would spoil the surprise), but I want to run some factors that would be required by the community first.
Here's the thing: currently, my best solution for doing what I want to do with this mass GA idea would mean that I need to use Powerpoint. I can save it as a "show," which prevents editing, etc. Powerpoint is awesome for what I want to do, because I can layer graphics in the background and create "hot spots" that allow the user to click on them and automatically open up URLs (which would be the GAs).
Now, to view a Powerpoint slide show, you don't have to actually have Powerpoint. That's obviously the best experience, but you can view a PP slide show for free with Powerpoint Online, which is totally free. The only caveat is that technically you need a Microsoft account to use Powerpoint Online (they don't have the offline powerpoint viewer app any more). The majority of people (probably 90%) already have a Microsoft account, because they're likely running Windows 10 (and if you're a paranoiac and running a local-only account and missing out on all of those cool web things that Win10 does really well, I'm surprised that you're willing to sign up for SG 😅😜) or have an old hotmail account or a current outlook.com account...or heck, an XBox account should also be their Microsoft account. But technically, you're not supposed to require that anyone signs up for anything for a GA.
So here's where it's dicey. I'm not requiring anyone to sign up for anything for the GAs, but the medium I want to use to give people access to the GAs could require them to sign up for something in order to be able to use Powerpoint Online (there is also a free app on Android, BTW [no signup needed]...not sure if it's free for iOS). I mean, honestly, everyone should have a freaking Microsoft account...free OneDrive space, and blah blah blah. It's kind of like everyone is expected to have a Google account for Google docs and Youtube.
I guess what I'm asking is that do you think that there are many people who would really raise a stink about this? I've tested a sample file and what I want to do works perfectly with Powerpoint, and I even tested it in Powerpoint online in two different browsers...flawless. If the consensus is that we think that there are enough nitpickers out there that will whine about this, then does anyone have a suggestion for another technology that can achieve the same thing? I don't mean create slides...there are lots of those apps out there, and most of them suck. I mean interactivity with hidden hot spots. I guess I could dust off an old copy of Visual Studio and throw together an old school VB app that people could download, but that's a lot more trouble and I'd rather it just run in a web browser rather than have an exe to deal with.
Thoughts?
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Help me test this! Can a couple of people (preferably without MS accounts, or at least not logged in to them) open up this "junk" PP show and tell me if it works for you without needing to sign in or sign up for anything? Thanks!!Ok, I've had a couple of folks test this, and the Powerpoint show format works without having to log in to anything or sign up for anything! So, I think we're good to go. I'm going to start putting this together (it will probably take me a while) in between work stuff today. I'll probably have the GA event fired up in the next 48 hours. Thanks again to everyone who helped test!
just testing
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