Emma, a television series broadcast on Belgium Public Television (VRT), has announced that they have created an ‘alternate reality game’ extension to the TV series; like Xenophile Media’s Extended Reality Game for the TV series ReGenesis in Canada; Hoodlum Entertainment’s online murder mystery extension to Emmerdale in the UK; Hoodlum Entertainment’s online extension to Fat Cow … Read moreBelgium ARG for TV Show Emma
As I’ve spoken about before, online virtual worlds are increasingly being used as extensions to entertainment properties. For those in Sydney, Australia, there will be a talk on this topic this Thursday with none other that Tony Walsh! MIXED REALITY BRANDED ENTERTAINMENT Where Social Networks meet Games meet TV Which side of the wall are … Read moreTV & Virtual Worlds
The next PerGames conference will be held in Salzburg, Austria, on the 11-12th June. The PerGames series of international symposia addresses the design and technical issues of bringing computer entertainment back to the real world with pervasive games. At the conference, IperG, the pervasive gaming design research group, are also running a series of tutorials: PIMP – A … Read morePerGames 2007 + IperG Tutorials
A while ago I came across Kevin Robert’s site SISOMO. Kevin is CEO Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi, Ideas Company and is behind paradigmatic approaches such as LoveMarks. I put SISOMO down on my list of things to chase up and got distracted. But thankfully I was reminded of the idea when SISOMO contacted me … Read moreKevin Roberts, SISOMO, Cross-Media, Storyelling…and me!
After my post about the great efforts of Lance Weiler, I’ve come across another example of good thinking when it comes to creation and distribution of what was previously called cinema. This project is called quite aptly A Swarm of Angels: A groundbreaking project to create a £1 million film and give it away to over … Read moreAnother WoW!, really: "Cinema 2.0"/"Open Source Cinema"/Kiva for Filmmakers etc
Lance Weiler, the director of the film The Last Broadcast (which has been described as the “original Blair Witch Project”) released another film last september: Head Trauma. What is interesting about the project is the STACK OF GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE with the film!! Firstly, he or the film has a presence … Read moreWow! DIY Cinema, theatre, gaming, mobile, mashups, comics, blog, podcasts…
The 2007 Developing Interactive Narrative Content Seminar run by sagasnet is currently in play. During this Developing Interactive Narrative Content Seminar pre-selected interactive narrative projects in development (no limitation on media, genre or target audience) will be provided in parallel with high-profile face-to-face consulting sessions (on financing, project management, marketing, story structure, game play…). Consultants will … Read more2007 sagasnet projects
As I’ve mentioned before, Australian company Hoodlum Entertainment, created the online extension to the popular UK soap Emmerdale. A quote from my previous post outlines the format: According to Hoodlum, the Emmerdale Channel is fully integrated with the TV show. At the end of each episode, the show will encourage viewers to visit the channel … Read moreMurderer Revealed to Web Audiences First
Recently Christopher Penn (who I’ve posted about before on this blog) put out a call to action to all of us who have special powers: we have the power to talk to thousands, if not millions, through the Internet: Think of it kind of like this, C.C. If you woke up tomorrow morning with the … Read moreBlogging, podcasting, twittering etc as Superhero Power
At GDC recently, Jane McGonigal announced her latest game: World Without Oil. It officially begins on April 30th, but sites and content are up already. It is apparently sponsored by Independent Lens and PBS, and is designed by Jane and written by Ken Eklund. This looks to be Jane’s move towards creating more socially responsible games … Read moreWorld Without Oil: towards a responsible ARG