Play, writing, and the pleasures of complex dynamic systems
Writer and game designer Andrea Phillips, who I interviewed in this space a few years back, recently wrote a…
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Musings from Simon Staffans, “a developer of different kinds of formats.”…
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Time to create transmedia
Posted 17 August 2012 | 12:16 pm
Transmedia - the ketchup effect
Posted 8 August 2012 | 12:43 pm
Pixel Lab 2012 half-time report
Posted 5 July 2012 | 10:04 am
Brands and transmedia
Posted 21 June 2012 | 10:14 am
1001 Tales
Siobhan O’Flynn: transmedia, crossmedia, physical installations, interactive films……
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Taking risks and dancing with audiences: Andrea Phillips on writing for transmedia and ARGs
In this interview, Andrea Phillips discusses her creative process and the formal and technical limitations (and possibilities) of ARGs and other playful forms of transmedia storytelling.
Talking story with Jan Libby
Knowing that Jan Libby is a prolific and talented indie ARG designer, I asked her if she would be interested in doing a short interview about how she plans and evolves her games — and about the important role of story in the future of ARGs. We exchanged a few emails, and Jan sent me these responses — along with some great behind-the-scenes images from her upcoming indie storyworld, 36nine…
Building a vast world with an indie board game: an interview with James Taylor
In this brief interview, I ask game designer James Taylor a few questions about how his latest board game engages players in consuming and producing story both within and beyond the boundaries of the magic circle.
Adrian Hon: Turning the Whole World into Disneyland
Adrian Hon’s company, Six to Start, won Best in Show at this week’s SXSW Web Awards for their project, Telling…
Transmedia Storytelling and Alternate Reality Games
I prepared this presentation as a primer for non-specialist audiences on the subject of Alternate Reality Games. Includes brief survey of prior art, diagrams illustrating the nature of networked fictions, and references to key scholars/innovators.
Location-Based Ambient Storytelling
A proposal for a directed research project that seeks to identify and implement a range of context and location-based storytelling techniques.
Transmedia Storytelling 101
Henry Jenkins, head of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT and founding member of the Convergence…