'Next' and 'home' icons

Just before finishing off placing all the images into iWeb, I had literally forgotten to place in icons for the next button. I looked at some of the generic arrow shapes that could possibly be used for my narrative and none of them really fitted in with it; so in the end I decided on making the next and home icons.

This took roughly 30 minutes to whip up, most of the time was actually spent on what colour scheme the next button should have. Originally I wanted the colour pallette to match the panels, but it blended in too well and didn't stick out at all; it needed to actually be easily findable for the reader. I ended up with red as it generally fitted in with the horror aspect to it and also contrasted the blue tones.

This was the original home icon, which was scrapped almost immediately after putting it into iWeb. People I asked to test and also myself just couldn't make out what it was meant to be, it was just a blue stain ruining the comic. If that wasn't reason enough, I didn't need the home button for all of the endings; one of the ends for the decision actually leads back to the options page, making a home icon all the more useless.

In the end I scrapped the idea of using a house for the home icon and stuck with a 'back' icon instead, also sticking the the same colours.