This is a long overdue post about my adventures at Wyrd Con 2 in 2011. If any of this sounds interesting, be sure to contact Lauren Scime (lauren at witchfactory dot com) about running a LARP, organizing a workshop, or speaking on a panel at Tri Wryd this June! I had the pleasure of slipping [...]
or “How I spent my weekend” I spent last weekend producing a LARP experience for the Steampunk Symposium, a steampunk-themed convention held on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA. My contribution ended up being a lot of narrative work and experience design, plus a minor role as an NPC (David Bainbridge of Sotheby’s). For details [...]
I’m a bit late in making the announcement, but I’m heading to Costa Mesa June 10-11 to check out Wyrd Con 2, a LARP (live-action role-play) convention. I’ll be taking the plunge and running my first LARP experience (set in Runes of Gallidon, of course!), as well as speaking at a panel on the 11th [...]
I’m thrilled to (finally!) launch a project very near and dear to my heart: Shared Story Worlds. The site has been live for a while, but I’m officially launching it today. Here’s what it’s all about: “Shared Story Worlds explores new models, frameworks, and best practices for creating, curating, sustaining, and maintaining collaborative entertainment properties [...]
The following is a guest post from Tyler Weaver Two types of choice make up the storytelling world of today: The first is the creator’s choice: the choices that we as content creators make to build the world of the story we’re telling. The second is the audience’s choice: limitless, and changeable at the click [...]
My transmedial musings conclude over at Tyler Weaver’s Multi-Hyphenate blog, with the third and final in my series on “The Beauty of Imperfection in Transmedia.” The short series explores the idea that transmedia properties, especially collaborative ones that encourage audience contribution, need to include a certain degree of imperfection-as-incompleteness in their design. Audiences need a [...]
The second installment of my interview series at Remix Fiction is up, in which I discuss transmedia and fail to name check Andrea Phillips as one of the driving forces behind the Transmedia Artists Guild: Remix Fiction Television Episode #730.1 (Scott Walker) from Martin Aggett on Vimeo. For more information about the Transmedia Artists Guild, [...]
Had the pleasure of being invited to sit down across the virtual desk that is Skype from Martin Aggett of Remix Fiction. Very grateful to Martin for giving me the opportunity to discuss Brain Candy, LLC on his show. Remix Fiction Television Episode #730 (Scott Walker) from Martin Aggett on Vimeo.
My last post touched briefly on a topic I call narrative sequencing, which refers to the order in which an audience experiences the individual pieces of content of a transmedia property. I want to explore that concept a bit more in this post. ***** A few months ago, I woke up in the gutter, feeling [...]