Deutsch | English

After we finished the prologue and improved it with the feedback we got, we are now working on Act 1. Story-wise, we are on the game characters first day at his/her new employer „LowKey Fashion“. After passing the assessment center, their character has a kind of scavenger hunt ahead of him/her to gain access to the new workplace and get to know the company’s premises.

For this act, we use the H5P activity „Interactive movie“.

Unlike the 3D virtual tour we used for the prologue, the interactive film is compatible with many other H5P activities – it is possible to include different types of quizzes and, for example, drag-and-drop tasks. We used the latter for a puzzle in which students are asked to fill a shelf with molecules, paying attention to different placement rules. We inserted other puzzles into the movie as image files and students can fill in their answers via a simple cloze. For example: Right at the beginning, they have to deduce the room number of LowKey Fashion’s lab from the following note.

The great advantage of the interactive film is that you can experiment with different other activities and jump to different places in the video depending on the answer given. If students come up with the wrong solution, they end up in the wrong room – an empty tea kitchen with no one to help them. They have to start the puzzle again. If their new solution is still wrong, they find a locked door with a note that this is not the lab either. This sequence repeats until they come to the correct solution. Only when they find it, and thus the lab, can they continue watching the video and advance to the other puzzles.

Writing the script and filming takes up more time and effort than designing the 3D virtual tour, but it can also be a lot of fun. We used a Go-Pro camera for this, so students see all the events from a first-person perspective. This puts them right in the middle of the action and allows them to identify with their character. As a little goodie, a video with outtakes is available to them at the end, including scenes like the following: