# Kubrick
An engine for interactive movies

## Background
I had a game idea whose design would require a lot of data. And I mean 'a lot'. Too much to host on my puny servers. So I thought, instead, of using YouTube to store and stream the data and controlling it via game code.

To test the concept, before spending $$$ on the game itself, I found a YT clip of Dragon's Lair and thought I would recreate that with Javascript to see it's the YT API is viable to make such a project.

Ultimately, I think the Dragon's Lair game presented here is playable, but flawed. And the YT API is currently lacking for my other game project.

## Dragon's Lair

I'll let [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Lair) take the strain and explain this game to you, if you're unaware of it.

The walkthrough I used to guide me as to keycodes and so on was created by Lafe Travis and can be found [here](http://www.thecomputershow.com/computershow/walkthroughs/dragonslairwalk.htm) (A prettier copy can be found at [IGN](http://uk.ign.com/wikis/dragons-lair/Walkthrough))

## The code
It's version 0 for a reason - I hate it!

### Things I don't like

* The YouTube API and/or my code doesn't provide smooth changes when switching between different clips. If I were a video person I'd consider merging the videos into 1. It's probably also possible to

* There's is little-to-no indication of the correct keys for many situations. This is why I've introduced the hint system. 

* I can't always be sure of the correct death sequence, so have guessed

* The accuracy of the YT API is pretty bad in places, so what's accurate in one render is wrong in the next.

* I used [Practise Mirror](http://marquisdegeek.com/practisemirror) to produce the timings, but I don't think they're perfect.

* I got bored whilst generating the data set, so I made compromises:
  + Accuracy of some keys/timings are estimates
  + I looked at the last frame _before_ Dirk performs the action, and marked that as the final point where the key can be pressed. I then subtracted 1.01 second to give the time range.
  + Areas with are mirrored are repeated are a cheat (IMO) so have made the second version easier by either having longer time windows in which to press the keys, or reducing the number of keys required.

 * Save points are a bit arbitrary

 * The change-over between living and dead videos is problematic.