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Cinema Games: MSNBC's NewsBreaker

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Theatre-goers have been having fun playing ‘crowd gaming’ at the cinema, courtesy of MSNBC.com. The official press release explains:

Msnbc.com liberates movie audiences from the out-of-date trivia, static billboards and the impatience of waiting for the summer blockbusters to begin with NewsBreaker Live, the first in-theater, audience participatory video game. Modeled after classic video games, NewsBreaker Live combines live msnbc.com RSS newsfeeds, the movement of the audience as a human joystick, and the big screen as a game board to bust audiences out of their pre-movie doldrums with an interactive game that delivers real-time news headlines to kick start the moviegoing experience.

Here is a video of the game in action:

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Creating TV & Serious Games for Xbox

 The New York Television Festival and Xbox are running an “Xbox LIVE Originals Contest”: The “Xbox LIVE Originals” contest will invite a wide range of artists and Xbox users to create a 5 to 15-minute pilot episode introducing an original television series.  The pilots may be live-action, animated or both.  All entries must be submitted before … Read moreCreating TV & Serious Games for Xbox

Filmmakers that Think Outside the Film

Lance Weiler — an acclaimed director films such as Head Trauma (that I posted about here) and The Last Broadcast — asked me to write an article about films and cross-media for the Workbook Project (a free resource for content creators). Of course I agreed to! So, I wrote a long article about the some of nifty things … Read moreFilmmakers that Think Outside the Film

On Two-Faced Blogging

I’d like to just take a moment and share with you what it is like being in industry and academia. This post is actually in response to Monique’s comment yesterday: Hi Christy, Ah the terming debate… sigh. Now, what Monique is referring to is my recent rantings about terminology on this blog. I highlight it because it … Read moreOn Two-Faced Blogging

"Multi-Platform Storytelling" according to Tejpaul Bhatia

Tejpaul Bhatia, the founder of Tej Media Networks & senior manager of international business strategy for ESPN New Media, was recently interviewed on Kevin Roberts site SISOMO about “multi-platform storytelling”.

Multi-platform story-telling requires story-teller’s to think on multiple levels and in multiple dimensions. The audience is no longer in one place and no longer on a single device for a scheduled period of time.  These additional layers and moving parts require quite a bit of effort on the story-teller’s part.  The story-teller is no longer just a writer.  She is a writer, a producer, an architect, a metadata specialist, a marketing exec, a business person, and a user experience professional.

Hey, now that sounds good. But then Tejpaul answers a question about whether formats will change with multiplatform delivery (“‘delivery?” I ask myself and then read on):

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Clash of the literacies: Making a "ludocinematic future"

Recently, a top Hollywood special effects company — Digital Domain — announced that they will be investing 25 million into making “creating a video game that matches the quality of a feature film”. Well, as you can imagine, the gaming community found this claim pretty insulting. Well respected game designer Clint Hocking rants at his … Read moreClash of the literacies: Making a "ludocinematic future"

Go Aussie Entrepeneurs! Top 60 Web 2.0 Companies in Australia

Read Write Web has published an article on the top 60 Web 2.0 companies in Australia: At Future Exploration Network‘s Web 2.0 in Australia event on June 6, we are including a showcase of the top five examples of Web 2.0 coming out of this glorious country. Identifying who we wanted to invite to the … Read moreGo Aussie Entrepeneurs! Top 60 Web 2.0 Companies in Australia

ARGFest 2007 videos

ARGFest-o-Con was held during March 2-4  in San Francisco. Videos of the sessions are at youtube, and here.

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