Creative Practice & Strategy / June 13, 2007

Creating TV & Serious Games for Xbox

 The New York Television Festival and Xbox are running an “Xbox LIVE Originals Contest”: The “Xbox LIVE Originals” contest will invite a wide range of artists and Xbox users to create a 5 to 15-minute pilot episode introducing an original television series.  The pilots may be live-action, animated or both.  All entries must be submitted before

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Creative Practice & Strategy / June 13, 2007

Literary ARG!: Raw Shark Texts

A couple of weeks ago I toddled along to the Sydney Writers Festival to see a UK author speak. I wanted to ask Steven Hall about his RawSharkTexts website, which seems a great extension of the storyworld of his novel Raw Shark Texts. The novel — ‘a science fiction, romance, thriller, adventure and mystery’ – is described as follows: [A] 20-something

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Creative Practice & Strategy / June 13, 2007

Cross-Media in Belgium: TV-Web Children’s Show

It is rare to see a project that actually has a flow of content moving from one platform to another. Usually, when people think cross-media or multi-platform they think in terms of distributing the same content to different platforms. Well, I stumbled on this great project a while ago and am impressed. KetnetKick is created by Larian Studios

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