Mastodawn

So I've got a movie which is a murder mystery in a mansion. Various people go to different rooms at different times. And some of this happens offscreen but is described or implied in later scenes.

I want to make a representation of this that I can scroll through, possibly even synched to the movie. Like I'd want to be able to map an animated map of the mansion and show who is where, when.

Any ideas with what software would be good for this/how should I represent this?

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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 2

I could start at the end of the movie -> digital representation of timeline of pawns moving about -> movie-synch'd animation, but that'd be a lot of video editing and I don't enjoy that much. I want to be doing as little of that as possible, and as much of automating some representation -> video renderer

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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 2

which'll probably be little icons moving around a 2D* map

* hopefully.

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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 2

all the ways I can think of doing this are a little too annoying, and I'm hoping someone has an idea on how to do this that wouldn't horribly suck

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Bloognoo

@foone
Describe the rooms using the filename format from 'type help' (on itch.io) as your 'who's in a room' reference then you've got a nice parsable start and end for all characters at each beat of the plot you can then generate the movement between rooms linearly or via crappy manhattan path following (anything more complicated sounds like a lot of effort)