I met Joe T. Velikovsky yesterday, a passionate game/story creator. He showed me his mobile comic, a sample is available at Mobster for free, which I really enjoyed. He’s playing with some nice geek/tech/philosophical areas. I took a look at his site, and found him to have a very accomplished career: * award-winning professional screenwriter … Read moreMeet Joe
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
I’ve been reading about WiMAX alot and receiving email notifications about the technology for a while. I’ve never really known what it is, just concepts around it: ‘connectivity’, ‘mobile’, ‘wireless’ and so on. C.J. Mathias sets a narrower understanding: The idea of carrying one?s broadband connection around, perhaps over very large geographic areas, is more … Read moreOkay, so what is WiMAX?
Well, I’ve just undertaken the only kind of facelift I’ll ever have: a digital and conceptual one. Firstly, the digital: I’ve migrated to WordPress. So, you’ll see alot more functionality, like categories on posts and (coming soon) subscription. I have to finish the categories, and add more resources, but there are plenty of new items … Read moreCMS to CME
News from itvt is that at least 3 companies that are shifting their business emphasis to address cross-media (edited quotes): Discovery Communications has consolidated its digital media operations via the formation of a global New Media group. “To expand our reach as the leading global real-world media and entertainment company, it is crucial that we … Read moreCross-Media Focus in Big Business
I mentioned earlier that Channel 4 was commissioning mobile content. Well, Channel 4 has launched their Mobile TV channel, and it is the same ol stuff, but ON YOUR PHONE! You can view the mobile site online: which is showing clips from Lost. Vodaphone 3G customers can view the clips for free until Jan 06. … Read moreMobile Phone TV and Media-Specific Traits
Adrian Hon, THE designer of ARGs blogged an extended abstract he has written for a paper to be delivered to a gaming conference sometime soon. He puts forward that: [A]ll types of entertainment have been unconsciously converging on an ARG-like destination. I’ve spoken about ARGs many times on this blog and in papers and industry … Read moreAll Roads Lead to ARGs?
On November 7th, America’s No. 1 ranked evening news show, NBC Nightly News, will be available online, in entirety, for free, after broadcast every night, making it the first and only newscast to do so. MSNBC claims to: consistently attracts more consumers than competitors like CNN.com and, in fact, attracts nearly one-third of all online … Read moreAccess All Areas
This blog has now gone cross-media: it is now available on your mobile phone. This type of cross-media storytelling is on the EXTREME left of my continuum: repurposing. When you just HAVE TO READ this blog and cannot get to your PC, checkout my mobile blog at winksite id #11389. The button for the emulator … Read moreCross-Media Cross-Media Storytelling
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?