The Australian academic journal fibreculture has announced a CFP (call for papers) for their general issue next year. Tom and I were too late in getting a paper together for the New Media and New Pedagogy issue, and for some reason I never heard back from fibreculture regarding my submission for the upcoming Distributed Aesthetics … Read moreCFP: Fibreculture
Max Giovagnoli’s book is out, and I just received my copy in the mail. I wish I could read Italian! I can see that Max has utilised alot of what I’ve written on this blog over the last year or so, but he has cited me, which is good. He has also referred to researchers … Read moreFare Cross-Media out
Our first joint paper — that is between Jeremy Douglass, Mark Marino and I (of Writer Response Theory)– was presented by Jeremy at DAC in Denmark last week. The feedback is good. In particular, Jeremy has been getting a few queries from people following up from my sections on cross-media and adaptations. I’ll be posting … Read moreOur paper went well!
New media artist Mark Amerika is giving a talk on convergence. Mark Amerika is among other achievements, the creator of an early interactive narrative work on the web: Grammatron. His bio reads: Mark Amerika is Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the founder and Publisher of … Read moreConvergence in New Media Academia
The long awaited report by Nielsen Entertainment Video Game Benchmark Report I’ve mentioned this report before, and discussed about some other stats. For those of us who don’t have a dream researcher budget, ACTeN provide some more stats: * Wait and See: Many active gamers appear to be in a holding pattern, before making a … Read moreLatest Gamer and Mobile stats
I’ve been at the Australiasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment being held in Sydney this week. There is still one day to go but I feel compelled to *download* my impressions before the final blast of input and then distraction of catching-up on delayed duties. The attendees are computer science students working with game technologies, interactive … Read moreInteractive Entertainment Conference: Day 1a
Jill Walker, the theorist behind ‘distributed narrative‘, has organised and participated in a panel on Viral and Distributed Narratives (as arranged by Jessica Henig). The panel is part of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 19th Annual Conference held recently in Chicago. It is the first time that electronic literature has been included … Read moreAnother Researcher & Dedicated Panel
Max Giovagnoli has completed a book on cross-media: Fare cross media. From Big Brother to Star Wars. Theory and Techniques of the Integrated and Distributed Use of Simultaneous Media. Check out this description: Performing cross-media entails carrying out information, entertainment and communication campaigns in an ?integrated? manner, thereby simultaneously utilising a range of media forms … Read moreMax's book on Cross-Media!
The Australian Game Developers Conference is happening on 1-3 December at Federation Square in Melbourne. Keynoters include: Ian Livingstone, Creative Director of Eidos; Dr. Ray Muzyka, Joint CEO and Co-Executive Producer at BioWare Corp; Rob Pardo, Vice President of Game Design, Blizzard Entertainment; Aaron Lieberman, Bungie Studios. There is also a conference and a School … Read moreOz Gaming Updates
The program for the Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment is slowly being uploaded. There are plenty of papers I’m keen see on gaming, participatory design, virtual environments & pedagogy, narrative, conversational agents and so on, but the most applicable to cross-media entertainment is the following: Pulp Gaming: Taking An Episodic Approach To Interactive EntertainmentRobert J … Read moreEpisodic Gaming Eh?