This was a self motivated project to create something interesting using InDesign's interactive features. It was also a good introduction to the epub workflow and wider digital format features. 

I chose The Goonies as it has always been a childhood favourite and I’d been creating assets for myself based around it over time and thought this would be a good exercise to bring it all together. 

It was definitely a testing learning curve and a huge amount of time was spent collecting and creating assets. I didn’t set myself a deadline as I had to fit it around work and this was largely created in my spare time.

The process to add interactivity on some elements was particularly complex and not that user-friendly — take Data’s booby traps for instance. Multiple interactive actions were applied to groups within groups, making it very hard to keep track of what to change.

Generally speaking though, I feel I pushed the applications limits quite far and it stood up well. It certainly surprised me what can be achieved within InDesign.

I hope Adobe Publish Online takes off, it’s very easy to upload to and works well as a host for this type of publication.

Fantastic technical resources for this were gleaned mainly from looking at the work created by Diane Burns.

If would be great if you could look at the finished piece in Adobe Publish Online, play with it and hopefully it’ll surprise you as much as it did me.