Disney's Animated Storybook: Pocahontas
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| Developer(s) | Media Station |
| Publisher(s) | Disney Interactive |
| Series | Disney's Animated Storybook |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh |
| Release | December 1, 1995 |
| Genre(s) | Point-and-click adventure, interactive storybook |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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Disney's Animated Storybook: Pocahontas is the third entry in the Disney's Animated Storybook point-and-click adventure interactive storybook game series, based on theatrical and home video releases. This game was based on the 1995 Walt Disney Animation Studios film Pocahontas, which told a fictionalised account of the relationship between Native American Pocahontas and Englishman John Smith in the midst of the european colonization of the Americas. The game was developed by Media Station and published by Disney Interactive. It was released in December 1995.
The vision of Marc Teren, VP of entertainment for Disney Interactive, was to create games with a "true and fair representation of the original property", and aim to capitalise as "ancillary products to successful theatrical and home video releases". To achieve this, Teren helped ensure the games were animated by Disney animators. From December 1994 to February 1995, the company had hired 50 new employees.Children's Business suggests the series came into fruition because in the contemporary entertainment market, it was "customary now for entertainment companies to release CD-ROMs to support a film or TV show".
Disney and Media Station collaborated to create more than 12,000 frames of digital animation for each game, as well as 300 music and vocal clips. Digital music and sound effects were composed, orchestrated, arranged, edited, mixed and synchronized at Media Station. The games had hundreds of clickable hotspots that produced animated gags, as well as many mind-challenging interactive games. The voice cast sometimes consisted of actors from the films reprising their roles; meanwhile, at other times voice soundalikes were used.
Based on the film of the same name, the animated storybook video game sees the player follow Pocahontas and her friends Flit the hummingbird and Meeko the Raccoon aim to prevent a war between British settlers and the Native American Indians. Players can click on hotspots to trigger animated gags or activities. The game is narrated by Grandmother Willow, and features four activities in total.
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