Comments on: Please Don’t Call Me a Puppetmaster http://www.remixfiction.com/2009/07/please-dont-call-me-a-puppetmaster/ Remixing Reality and Fiction in Immersive Story Design Thu, 08 Sep 2011 02:47:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brooke http://www.remixfiction.com/2009/07/please-dont-call-me-a-puppetmaster/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Brooke Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:50:05 +0000 http://www.remixfiction.com/?p=47#comment-5 evocative! Not provocative. I mean, sure, I can be rather provocative but that's totally not what I was going for there. me speek english gud evocative!
Not provocative.

I mean, sure, I can be rather provocative but that’s totally not what I was going for there.

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]]> By: Brooke http://www.remixfiction.com/2009/07/please-dont-call-me-a-puppetmaster/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Brooke Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:37:48 +0000 http://www.remixfiction.com/?p=47#comment-4 I use the term puppetmaster and I like it. It's fitting for someone who directly building the stage and has control over the narrative & characters during the live run of some sort of interactive experience thing - like ARGs. And, as much as I like joining titles together with dashes and slashes, it's a bit much to constantly write out Designer/Producer/Editor/Copywriter/Storywriter/Online-Character-Actor/Puzzle-creator/Occasional-Web-Geek. And, really, is there anything else out there that conveys all of those elements as much as puppetmaster has come to? It's a colloquial term and it's a gift from the community for the people that bring them such experiences. It's meant as an honor and, so, who am I to spit on that? Just like some communities call us "Ninjas" - personally, I've always preferred Pirates to Ninjas and, of the two, which one is actually likely to say ARRRRRRRG? But if they want to call me Ninja - I'll wear that title with pride. Professionally, I use Experience Designer and most of my invoices go to "Experience Design". I like it and it works well for me. It has a failing similar to that of "Transmedia Producer" in that it uses a term already specifically geared towards something else. And while I enjoy production more than design, I'm better suited for the design role, so Experience Designer works better for me than Transmedia Producer. Plus, I think Experience Design is more provocative and begs better questions that let me expound more on what I do. I use the term puppetmaster and I like it. It’s fitting for someone who directly building the stage and has control over the narrative & characters during the live run of some sort of interactive experience thing – like ARGs. And, as much as I like joining titles together with dashes and slashes, it’s a bit much to constantly write out Designer/Producer/Editor/Copywriter/Storywriter/Online-Character-Actor/Puzzle-creator/Occasional-Web-Geek. And, really, is there anything else out there that conveys all of those elements as much as puppetmaster has come to?

It’s a colloquial term and it’s a gift from the community for the people that bring them such experiences. It’s meant as an honor and, so, who am I to spit on that? Just like some communities call us “Ninjas” – personally, I’ve always preferred Pirates to Ninjas and, of the two, which one is actually likely to say ARRRRRRRG? But if they want to call me Ninja – I’ll wear that title with pride.

Professionally, I use Experience Designer and most of my invoices go to “Experience Design”. I like it and it works well for me. It has a failing similar to that of “Transmedia Producer” in that it uses a term already specifically geared towards something else. And while I enjoy production more than design, I’m better suited for the design role, so Experience Designer works better for me than Transmedia Producer. Plus, I think Experience Design is more provocative and begs better questions that let me expound more on what I do.

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