Lance Weiler, the director of the film The Last Broadcast (which has been described as the "original Blair Witch Project") released another film last september: Head Trauma. What is interesting about the project is the STACK OF GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE with the film!! Firstly, he or the film ...

The 2007 Developing Interactive Narrative Content Seminar run by sagasnet is currently in play. During this Developing Interactive Narrative Content Seminar pre-selected interactive narrative projects in development (no limitation on media, genre or target audience) will be provided in parallel with high-profile face-to-face consulting sessions (on financing, project management, marketing, story structure, ...

The notion of closure in interactive narratives has been explored by, among others, hypertext-response theorist Jane Yellowless Douglas. In her paper, “How Do I Stop this Thing?”: Closure and Indeterminacy in Interactive Narratives, Douglas analyses the assumptions we make as readers and how we long for closure, even if the ...

I just discovered through Ilya's post a study of the Perception of the Presence of Brands in Second Life by CB News in partnership with Repères Second Life. It is an excellent study because it gives some spot on advice about brands in SL but also because it provides a snapshot of ...

As many of you would be aware, I wrote the section on ARGs & Academia for the International Game Developers Association Alternate Reality Game SIG Whitepaper. *whew! * I looked around far and wide to find academics and educators who are looking at ARGs and presented what was at the ...

    In this second part of my series of posts (part one) about my recent cross-media tour of five countries, I cover my trip to Sweden to deliver a keynote at the First International Conference on Cross Media Interaction Design. Very exciting it was (she says with Yoda grammar). It was held ...

As I've mentioned before, Australian company Hoodlum Entertainment, created the online extension to the popular UK soap Emmerdale. A quote from my previous post outlines the format: According to Hoodlum, the Emmerdale Channel is fully integrated with the TV show. At the end of each episode, the show will encourage viewers ...

A couple of months ago I was called up by researchers from a company called Sense Worldwide...  Sense Worldwide provides contextual research and concept development services to Blue Chip and Fortune 500 clients across many different sectors and categories. Founded in 1999 we were one of the first companies to utilise human ...

Recently Christopher Penn (who I've posted about before on this blog) put out a call to action to all of us who have special powers: we have the power to talk to thousands, if not millions, through the Internet: Think of it kind of like this, C.C. If you woke up ...

Institute for Media and Entertainment and Kellogg School of Management are holding a special event on Branding in Media and Entertainment on April 30 to May 2. They're focusing on ways to utilise different platforms to make sure your brand breaks through the clutter on different platforms. The mandate for powerful media brands and ...