That got your attention. Playwright and screenwriter Jason Grote’s new play, 1001, is set to premiere in New York on October 22nd. Jason has done what not many playwrights have done (that I know of — tell me if not!) and created a fictional newspaper for the play, with links to a diegetic blog and … Read moreTheatre ARG?: 1001
Those who have attended one of my presentations over the last few years will recall Peter Greenaway’s multi-platform project: The Tulse Luper Suitcases. One part of this massive work is the online game Tulse Luper Journey. Here is some info about the TLS and the TLJ from the game’s site: Tulse Luper is the lead character in an … Read moreTulse Luper Journey ends soon
Jak Bouman has posted about the Monkey Murder Mystery which started on Oct 4th: From October 4th, 2007 a real street game, the Monkey Murder Mystery, will start in four Dutch cities. The Monkey Murder Mystery is a local interactive reality game, which gets gamers away from their computer. The gamers will hunt or be … Read moreMonkey Murder mystery
X Timeline is a site that provides a system for anyone to create timelines of any topic, and embed them on another site. There are plenty for entertainment — in particular properties, technology timelines and so on. This technology makes it easier to share what fans and researchers have been doing for a very long … Read moreX Timeline
Mirjam Struppek has an investigation into the variety of screens available in her Urbans Screens project: URBAN SCREENS is a concept developed by Mirjam Struppek. It investigates how the currently commercial use of outdoor screens can be broadened with cultural content. We address cultural fields as digital media culture, urbanism, architecture and art. We want … Read moreUrban Screens
Just stumbled on Conker Media’s showreel, I like this different approach to getting across your portfolio: Check out Conker Media: http://www.conkermedia.com/
This is on old one (oct 2006) but I only just discovered it from Vassilen’s site Mobile Aesthetic. The mobile series is distributed in the UK through O2, T-Mobile and 3; and in the US through amp’d mobile. The series of 20×2 minute episodes, directed by Johannes Roberts, will be available as a feature film on … Read moreMade-for-Mobile Horror: When Evil Calls
During a discussion about game to film adaptations at a talk I gave recently at the Film and Television Institute in Perth, Graeme Watson commented that part of the success of Tomb Raider could be the prevalence of the character Lara Croft. I think Graeme is dead right, and here is a post by Jessie … Read moreWorld-Creation Strategy: Characters?
On March 5th this year, ARG designer Adrian Hon presented to Google on ‘How to Make an Alternate Reality Game, Or, Perplex City: A Look Behind the Scenes’. His abstract: Alternate Reality Games not only exist on the web – they call you up, invade your TV show and fly helicopters outside of your house. … Read moreAdrian Hon's Google Presentation: How to Make an Alternate Reality Game
One of the reasons for the paradigmatic change to cross-media world-creation is the emergence of transliterate creators. These creators are not just fans of a range of artforms, are not only versed in a range of artforms, they are versed (or developing a literacy) in the combining of a range of artforms & media platforms. … Read moreTie-In Writers and the Mono-Medium Logic Problem