Creating a Mouse Maze

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Creating a Mouse Maze
This tutorial will cover step-by-step how to
create a mouse maze like the one above. The goal
of these mazes is to reach the end if the maze
without your cursor leaving the maze path or
hitting any obstacles. Go ahead and give this one
a try. Click the green arrow to start and
navigate your way to the red arrow. Dont touch
white!
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Creating a Mouse Maze
Whoops! You went off the path. Go ahead and give
it another try.
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Rollover Hyperlink
Nice job! You completed the maze. Now you have an
idea of what this tutorials about. The feature
that makes a maze like this work is a rollover
hyperlink. When your mouse touches the
background, you are taken to a separate failure
slide with the option to retry. Click the white
arrow to get started.
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Rollover Hyperlink
Start out with a totally blank slide. You can
modify the background of the slide to your
liking. Insert a rectangle shape that covers the
entire slide. It will block your background, but
dont worry, well fix that in the next step.
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Rollover Hyperlink
Now weve got to make your background visible.
Double-click on the rectangle and the Format
AutoShape window will appear. Drag the
Transparency slider to 99 and set the shape
outline to No Outline. Now your rectangle is
invisible.
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Rollover Hyperlink
Before we go back to that slide, we need to
create a failure slide. This slide will be
displayed when the player moves their mouse off
of the maze path. Insert a new slide and have it
say whatever you like.
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Now return to the first slide we were working on,
with the transparent rectangle. Right-click on
the rectangle and click Action Settings. The
Action Settings window will appear. Click the
Mouse Over tab. From the Hyperlink To drop-down
menu, select Slide, then click Slide 2.
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Congratulations. You have just completed the most
important part of the tutorial. That was the
rollover hyperlink I mentioned earlier. Now you
just need to create a maze path. Well start with
a simple, straight one. First, though, right
click on the background of a slide and click Grid
and Guides. Check the box that says Display
drawing guides on screen. This will let you know
where the vertical and horizontal center of the
slide is.
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Now for the maze path. Create a fairly thin
rectangle that stretches from the top of the
first slide to the bottom. Make sure it is
aligned with the center of the screen. You can
adjust its coloration to your liking.
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Next we need to add some markers to show where
the maze starts and ends. Remember the green and
red arrows from the example? These can be
whatever you like. Ill use arrows like before.
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Before we do anything else we need to add a slide
that will take us to the next level of the maze.
It can be whatever you like. You should also add
a Level 1 slide before the maze slide.
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Now copy the starting marker from the maze (I
used the green arrow) and paste it onto the Level
one slide. Right-click on the arrow (on the Level
1 slide only) , click Hyperlink, and select Next
Slide under Place in This Document. Now the arrow
will take you to the maze on the next slide. You
should paste this arrow onto every level slide.
The arrow needs to stay in the same position so
the mouse is in right spot when you start the
maze.
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Now back to the maze. Remember how we gave the
background a rollover hyperlink? Now we need to
do the same thing for the end marker, which I
used a red arrow for. Right-click on exit marker,
select Action Settings, and click the Mouse Over
Tab. Then select Next Slide. Now, when the player
reaches the arrow, they are taken to the next
level!
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Congratulations! Youve just completed your first
maze. Be sure to experiment try adding
obstacles, lives, a title screen, moving path
sections, the possibilities are endless! Thanks
for watching! Click the white arrow to exit.