Interactive Narrative: www.bluu.co.uk

The home page gives you a selection of a specific restaurant in different places. When you choose a city it takes you to a page which makes it appear that you are in the restaurant itself. It has the bar and also seats which act as links to other parts of the website. The only way to navigate through the website is clicking on the different parts of the restaurant which then opens new links and takes the user to different parts of the website.

This specific website uses a picture of the venue itself. Each different part of the picture has then been made into an animated link which lights up and displays a caption telling the viewer what the link is and where it goes to. There are also lights in the restaurant which turn on and off when you scroll over them. There isn’t much sound on the site apart from very quiet background noise and quiet music in the background. There is however a noise when you navigate from page to page. The best part of the site I believe is the menu section. In the bar there are menus on one of the tables, when this is selected it brings up a menu that is made to look like a real life book type menu. Then you can select the corner of each page and you then drag it down and across to change page, there is also a sound with this which makes it sound even more realistic.


The menu is again similar to the other two. It is an environment which allows the user to freely navigate around the site; they are not confined to menu bars. The each link becomes highlighted when rolled over which clearly shows the user what is a link and what isn’t. The main audience interaction is the food and drinks menu. The menu allows the user to flick through manually using the mouse.

This is a website advertising a restaurant/bar available for bookings.