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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… Continue reading

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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. Continue reading

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Masquerades disclose the reality of souls

A moving and deeply personal description of a very literary kind of transmedia storytelling can be found in the Readings section of this month’s Harper’s Magazine. Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa “[wrote] and published in the guise of seventy-two different pseudonymous … Continue reading

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Transmedia and Education: Three Essential Readings

Henry Jenkins’ New Media Literacies class has been a treasure-trove of readings and insights. Three recent articles covered in class struck me as particularly essential for anyone who’s looking to build an understanding of what multimodal communication is and how transmedia relates to education, literacy and literature. Continue reading

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David Bordwell on Transmedia Storytelling

Film scholar David Bordwell posts a terrific summary of multiplatform or transmedia storytelling, covering everything from key precedents in cinema and theory to the hope many of us have for the form to reach higher and do more: Continue reading

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Blueful

Hypertext/IF author Aaron Reed’s latest work, “Blueful,” uses a variety of web 2.0 services to communicate a narrative. Telling stories in this manner is something that I expect will gain popularity and sophistication in the next couple of years, especially … Continue reading

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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. Continue reading

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Transmedia Storytelling 101

Henry Jenkins, head of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT and founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium, has shared an excellent list of 10 key concepts in the theory and practice of transmedia storytelling. This is a great … Continue reading

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