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**Making cool YouTube button links within your videos**



Hi All, I know there has been some conversation about how to make your interactive narrative's more fun. As such, I thought it might be nice to look at some cool ways of using Youtube. You will all have seen some good examples like

Shoot the Bear Take the Knife

These are really nice, but the principal is very simple. Here is how you do it.

1. Create a YouTube account 1. Edit your main video to add the buttons 2. Upload your main video and your link videos 3. Add annotations to your main video and link and make YouTube buttons

Thats it! Just follow the quick links above to see how to do it, and in 20 minutes you could have your videos with options up there to add a fantastic level of depth to your narratives

Also you can very easily set up a wiki like this. Wiki's (Hawaiian for 'quick') are the basis is all online blogging. Wikipedia is the most famous, but it is heavily policed and your stuff will often get taken down without some good referencing, but sites like this are all yours. WordPress is basically a site like this with some nice tools attached. It would have been nice for me to go into this in more depth sooner, but discoveries like this are for you to make. ;)

Best Mick