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Why PowerPoint?

To begin with, I don't know of any other software that is capable of creating standalone multimedia interfaces that are self-serving ( no host needed ) and available to most everybody with a PC. I know of Apache and Lybra Open Office but in the company I work, they are not readily available or liked. PowerPoint is on every machine in our organisation and is considered an enterprise solution that is secure and stable. Nearly everyone around the world is moving away from swf and actionscript, something I am remorseful about. I had fun using AS2 and AS3. Adobe Flash was one of the better animation tools around. I have looked at Adobe Animate and it's still a good animation software but the html5 that it outputs is not fully compatible with every browser. In fact in most cases with html5 there is an awful lot that can go wrong. If you want standalone apps, for instance, you are severely encumbered. PowerPoint at least for me, ticks all the boxes. It has a great variety of illustration tools, It works almost everywhere and it has an inbuilt programming language. Its very much the only standalone multimedia framework there is these days. I have over the last 6 years been introduced to some other types of multimedia software development tools like Construct2, Hippo Animator, Articulate Storyline and  Adobe Captivate but none have the versatility of regular old PowerPoint.

This is an image of an eLearning game I have built as part of a training program for the company I work for. It is interactive, The game itself is run from one slide and the VBA tallies the scores and later adds these to a leaderboard.

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