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The PBS television series
A generation ago, Jacques-Yves Cousteau revealed the oceans' mysteries to millions of landlocked PBS television viewers, and inspired a groundswell of public awareness of the unique problems faced by the world's marine environments. Now, 30 years later, Jacques' son Jean-Michel Cousteau and his expedition team have set sail to explore dangerous and spectacular locales across the globe in the high-definition series, Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures, premiering with the film Voyage to Kure, narrated by Pierce Brosnan.
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An online educational game: Sharks at Risk
Sharks at Risk is the title of the third episode in Jean-Michel Cousteau's inspring television series: Ocean Adventures. This interactive educational game was developed as a companion piece for the program hosted on the KQED.org and PBS.org websites- where children who had watched the program could then log-on and learn more about how Shark generations are at risk in our oceans.
The game covers four different species of sharks, and allows you to experience their environment changing over time. Try moving the slider from the late 1980's up until 2003, and you'll notice how not only the various shark populations have died off, but their entire eco-systems have become increasingly compromised. This online game was designed and developed using extensive ActionScript programming in Flash.
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The teasers
Working with the interactive development team at KQED here in San Francisco, we developed a 'teaser', or animated announcement for each of the various episodes. These announcements appeared on the Ocean Adventures corresponding website's homepage. They were coded with ActionScript so that they would cycle through all of the announcements for the episodes that had already aired, ending on the announcement of the episode that was about to air that week, so that the website for the television series would automatically be updated with current and fresh content, as the series progressed, without the web development team at KQED having to update any of their files on a weekly basis. Watch all four of the teasers here in sequence.
(Note: the buttons and links inside this piece are no longer active.)
> Read more about this series on the corresponding KQED website.
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