Interactive Mad Libs

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Interactive Mad Libs

• IMM270

Mami AkiyamaSebastian Pruiti Brandon Lee Matt
Ozol
Brian Glaz Jasmine Rodriguez Steve Turrise
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Contents

• Introduction
• Background
• Competitors
• Proposal
• Brainstorming
• Original layouts
• Style guide

• Flow chart
• Problems encountered
• Demonstration
• Future plans

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Introduction

• Conventional Interactive Mad Libs
• Typical book format
• Story is unknown until end
• Story never changes
• Graphics never change
• Target audience all ages
• http//interactive.colum.edu/students/hsmith1/intr
  o/madlib/madlib.php
• http//www.thepcmanwebsite.com/pclibs.shtml
• http//us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/yrea
  ders/madlibs/fun.html

• New Innovative Interactive Mad Lib
• (Mad Libs News)
• Goals
• create a new interactive method of enjoying Mad
  Lib
• motivate people (especially teenagers young
  adults) to read newspapers

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Formatting Features

• Newspaper format
• Multiple choices of articles
• Multiple choices of categories
• Sports
• Entertainment
• National
• International
• Changing articles daily/Use of RSS feeds
• Allowing a user to create his/her own headlines,
  pictures, and articles each time
• Featuring different stories and images/Random
  Flickr search
• Providing a printable format
• Target audience All ages

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Proposal

• http//www.tcnj.edu/pruiti2/prop/index.html

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Brainstorming

• Prototypes
• Style guide
• http//www.tcnj.edu/pruiti2/style/index.html

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Flow Chart

• http//www.gliffy.com/publish/1183183/index.html

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Problems

• coming soon

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Demonstration

• http//cgi.tcnj.edu/glaz3/madlibs.swf

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Future Plans

• Visual Demo
• Customize web browser
• Change headlines
• Multi-lingual features
• Copy Paste features
• More categories
• Saving and Loading features