This session is divided into the following categories: 1) Online Web series i.e. drama created exclusively for the web. 2) Webisodes - ancillary dramas based on Television properties 3) Animation - animated content distributed online (but often crossing to television) 4) Machinima - a type of animated content created by manipulating video game technology. 5) Mobisodes - drama created exclusively for...
UK development studio nGames has announced a new strategic partnership with advertising and communications agency M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment, to provide "non-traditional" games products to advertising clients. The partnership's first project is already in development, with a launch announcement expected next year. Although no specific details have so far been released, the...
Media. Innovation. Awards. We’ve been working hard to get those three words connected here at Doner. Last week, one year after been pitched this Alternate Reality Game idea by Pierre Côté, it officially happened. Last Thursday night, we took home the Gold at Marketing Magazine’s Media Innovation Awards Gala for the “33 Keys” Alternate Reality Game campaign that...
Image: ReBurbia When Ken Eklund created his alternate reality game World Without Oil, one of the emergent themes of the “historical pre-enactment” was that the suburbs became ghost towns. As populations ballooned and fuel prices surged, the distant burbs no longer made sense. New York Times writer Allison Arieff paints a beautiful image of a suburbia [...]
Attendees at tomorrow's XMediaLab Global Media Cultures event at the Sydney Opera House will be treated to the first public demonstration of Australian company Emotiv's mind-reading technology. The "EPOC" headset allows wearers to interact with a computer using thoughts and emotions, such as moving in-game objects via mind control without the need for a hand controller. Emotiv CEO Nam Do...
Rather, it was a very small-scale--and low-tech--version of what is known as an alternate-reality game, an entertainment genre that has grown in popularity in recent years, especially because its traditional use of mixed-media--the Web, cell phones, social media, and others--can allow large numbers of people to play together collaboratively. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10402954-52.html "It...
While big ARGs like I Love Bees and The Beast get most of the ink, there has been a steady stream of games built for very small audiences, without corporate sponsorship.
To quote Kierkegaard by way of Wayne's World , "Once you label me, you negate me." While we have divided the SXSW Interactive Web Awards into 18 entry categories and ask that you label your website when submitting it for consideration, be assured that we would never think of negating you. Quite the contrary: We want to celebrate you, the essence of your work, and what attracts people to...
Fox's Dollhouse may be canceled, but that doesn't mean creator Joss Whedon et al. are giving up just yet: In anticipation of the Dec. 4 return of the final new episodes to TV, Fox has mounted what appears to be a new Web-based alternate-reality game that expands the Dollverse.
I saw it on boingboing and loved the premise: The early results are finally making it online as the preview of a graphic novel, which spills out into the trailhead of at least one Alternate Reality Game, and also comprises the back story of the coming videogame series. This is a big big universe - a giant war for the future of humanity, of course - with maybe one overall timeline but many different...
Platform: Flash — For those of us who love the idea of digital espionage but who don't have the ability to hack our way into a paper bag, Exoriare is here to fulfill all of our cyberpunk fantasies. The new alternate reality game from Smoking Gun Interactive sucks you in to a world of government conspiracies and stands poised to keep you hooked for a long time to come. Tagged as: arg , browser...
From London to Dundee - this month's most interesting videogame-related festivals, talks and exhibitions... A couple of weeks ago, I posted about a selection of forthcoming events that I thought would interest Gamesblog readers. Since then several more have been announced, so here's a new list. Wunderbar Festival Where: various locations across the North East When: November 6-15 What: The press release...
PlayStation Home, the PlayStation 3's avatar based virtual community, has grown in leaps and bounds since it's official launch nearly a year ago with a wide variety of Home spaces from various top games as well as the mysterious alternate reality game Xi. One of the most popular spaces on the online platform was the Buzz! Home space, based on Relentless Software's award winning platform. At this year's...
Can you imagine an alternate reality? We talk about alternate reality games, but what if an alternate reality exists for others on a day to day basis. Take a second and imagine what it would be like if you couldn’t’ think in the abstract, but instead had a brain that thought by referencing tons of [...]
I'm pretty much a jeans guy, but yesterday I got duded up in a blazer and overcoat to go to the Canada Media Fund consultation session, along with about forty other writers, producers and documentary hyphenates. Valerie Creighton has been winging her way across Canada to ask industry stakeholders what the CMF should do and be. The CMF is an arranged marriage between the Canadian Television Fund and...
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