Interactive videos, good or bad?

[Ollie]

I know they've been going on for a while but what do you think of interactive videos?
Youtube is the best place for them as they have the annotations feature which you can edit on top of your video to make a game.
I find the person who does the best interactive games on Youtube is a guy called Cory Williams (smpfilms).

Anyway what do you think of them. Do you like the idea of making videos that you interact with by clicking etc. or do you just want videos to be simple and have no interaction at all?

Some examples of interactive videos. (You need annotations turned on to play)

Interactive Fortune Teller:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr2hoesH ... annel_page

Choose your path (find Sparta):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lFfNDFD ... feature=iv

Hold your breath:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM0k-qhM ... annel_page

Shoot the Banker (takes a while to figure out but it's good fun):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy3Iike8Y70

 

[LiveForTheLaunch]

It's a cool concept, but I wouldn't sit there for hours playing interactive YouTube stuff.

That is all .