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Adrian Hon’s Google Presentation: How to Make an Alternate Reality Game

By Christy on October 3, 2007

On March 5th this year, ARG designer Adrian Hon presented to Google on ‘How to Make an Alternate Reality Game, Or, Perplex City: A Look Behind the Scenes’. His abstract:  Alternate Reality Games not only exist on the web – they call you up, invade your TV show and fly helicopters outside of your house. [...]

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New Transmedia Blog: “The Extratextuals”

By Christy on October 3, 2007

Ivan Askwith, Jonathan Gray, and Derek Johnson have started a group blog called The Extratextuals, which they explain in their birth post as: This is a blog about the media. However, with other blogs on television, film, and the media in general, we wanted to carve out a specific niche. So our blog will focus primarily [...]

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Tie-In Writers and the Mono-Medium Logic Problem

By Christy on October 3, 2007

One of the reasons for the paradigmatic change to cross-media world-creation is the emergence of transliterate creators. These creators are not just fans of a range of artforms, are not only versed in a range of artforms, they are versed (or developing a literacy) in the combining of a range of artforms & media platforms. [...]

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Serious ARG: “Let’s Change the Game”

By Christy on October 3, 2007

Adrian Hon, ARG veteran player and designer (was with Mind Candy for Perplex City, now in Six to Start), has founded an altruistic ARG competition (text from email to the IGDA ARG SIG listserv): This is a serious game with a difference. Not only will we be measuring its success *directly* through how much money [...]

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Finally! A Comprehensive ARG Report from the PMs

By Christy on October 3, 2007

Although I mentioned this in my last update of ARG Stats (of which there is more to come), I felt the report deserved highlighting. In 2007 Hazel Grian was awarded a place in the Arts Council England Interact programme, Diffraction: Diffraction, the pilot title of Arts Council England Interact programme, offered placements to already established artists [...]

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Axel Brun’s presentation on ‘Produsage’

By Christy on October 1, 2007

One of the presentations I really enjoyed at perthDAC 2007 (which I reviewed here) was Axel Brun’s ‘The Future is User-Led’. In particular, I appreciated his ‘common characteristics’ of Blogs, Wikipedia and Second Life. Here is his ppt: The full paper is online [PDF] and detail about the book this paper is a part of.

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