Why did I recreate this game of all things?īesides nostalgia, so that the game can exist on a platform in which everyone can interact with it as it was meant to be experienced, rather than watching a YouTube video of someone else playing it. Shut down your computer, go to your preferred streaming service and watch the movie. Since this was a DVD, the remote for the DVD player was how the user interacted and influenced what would happen to Timon and Pumbaa. Each choice would have different outcomes, such as going into a cave full of bats (oof) or traveling through an elephant graveyard (ouchie). The game is a very simple choose-your-own-adventure where Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog are stopped along their safari journey by crossroads where the user must choose their next direction to travel, either left or right.

It is a game found off of the second DVD in The Lion King DVD set (the blue disc pictured). Well what is Timon and Pumbaa's Virtual Safari? The answer to that question would be an undeniable Yes. The question I asked myself before writing this post however is whether or not my project elicits the same emotions I experienced sitting cross-legged on the carpet in front of the tube TV. However, rather than jumping in and starting this project immediately, I wanted to learn all of the tools as much as I could so that I create a final product I was proud of. This project was always something I wanted to do when I became introduced to user experience design and web development. As a disclaimer, I am still a student and by no means a professional.

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