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Launch of a new initiative by the IGDA ARG SIG…

McGonigal, EBR & I: “[META] The Designer-Academic Problem”

A few months ago I was invited to give a ‘riposte’ to the online edition of Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s edited collection: Second-Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media.
Games and other playable forms, from interactive fictions to improvisational theater, involve role playing and story – something played and something told. In Second Person, game designers, [...]

Update on guest lectures

Hello! Apologies for the delay in blogging my updates here. At the moment, while I’m concentrating on finishing my PhD, I don’t have the time to blog my thoughts, experiences and research insights here as I would like to. I’m often asked what I’m doing though. So, besides my PhD writing, writing essays for forthcoming [...]

Dynamic Logic’s Latest Cross-Media Campaigns Study

Dynamic Logic have just released their latest study:
Dynamic Logic, a Millward Brown company, releases new analysis of 32 cross-media campaigns across ten categories showing that media work best when used together. All three media platforms – television, magazines, and online – contribute incrementally to brand metrics, but at different levels, bringing various strengths at different points along [...]

David Varela on Writing for ARGs

David Varela, one of the writers who worked on Mind Candy’s alternate reality game Perplex City , has an article on writing for the ARG in the September issue (36) of Scriptwriting Magazine.
Check it out: http://www.scriptwritermagazine.com/

Primer for the CSI:NY & Second Life Crossover is Online

As I’ve mentioned before, the upcoming episode (Wed Oct 24th in the US) of CSI:NY will feature and continue in the online virtual world Second Life. A primer has been released on youtube, getting audiences excited and prepared for cross-platform traversal, which is good!:
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Script Cops! If only there were real…

I found these on John August’s blog. Priceless.

From Crackle: Script Cops, Ep 1: Domestic Disturbance

From Crackle: Script Cops, Ep 2: McKee Sting

From Crackle: Script Cops, Ep 3: Traffic Stop

WOW! Radiohead. No, really

I kept forgeting to post about this but just in case there are some of you that not aware of what Radiohead are doing, here it is. Radiohead’s latest album, In Rainbows, will be released in December but you can preorder at their website. Rather than just offer the CDs for buying, Radiohead have undertaken four [...]

Madison & Vine Revisited

A couple of years ago Scott Donaton, the editor of Advertising Age, published a book called Madison & Vine: Why the Entertainment and Marketing Industries Must Converge to Survive. Scott revisited ‘branded entertainment’ in a talk he gave recently, which has been published at the Madison & Vine section of Advertising Age. In the article he [...]

The Creators of Outstanding Online Experiences…

UK-based Hi-ReS! (Handsome information – Radical entertainment Systems), founded in 1999 by Alexandra Jugovic and Florian Schmitt, have been creating amazing award-winning websites for the film, TV, music and marketing industries for a few years now. Some of their sites, like Requiem for a Dream and Donnie Darko, I mention in my article about ‘Filmmakers That Think Outside the [...]

I've just submitted a PhD on a new form of storytelling & gaming; consulting to clients on cross-platform projects; and I am developing my own projects.
This site is the main hub of my various blogs: Cross-MediaEntertainment.com [Internet Archive], UniverseCreation101.com, WriterResponseTheory.org, Transmodiologist.org and CompletionofBeginnings.com.
Contact me via email: christy at this domain.

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