Patrick Moeller from VM-People recently gave an insightful talk at ARGfest on the challenge of getting an audience hooked from the very beginning of an alternate reality game (ARG). He discusses the psychology and desire of players who want to take part in a transmedia storytelling experience from the very start of the project. This all [...]
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Meet Gary; the star of Jim Babb’s new project – Socks Incorporated. Socks Inc. is an alternate reality game that follows the trials and tribulations of Gary as he struggles with unemployment and tries to get a job at the Socks Inc. toy factory. This free game encourages players to create an avatar, a.k.a. sock puppet, [...] Nina Bargiel is a media writer who has crossed over into the world of Alternate Reality Games with MTV’s first season of Valemont which aired on the network as well as online. Nina wrote and implemented every facet of the series’ online experience, which was no small task considering the online content spanned three blogs (Professor [...] Remix Fiction Television returns this Sunday with a fantastic guest – Adrian Hon, CEO and co-founder of Six to Start! Adrian is one of the many exciting guests we’ve got lined up to appear in the coming months. We’ve abandoned our plan of broadcasting the show in the exact same time slot each week in favor [...] We are excited to announce that our special guest for tomorrow’s episode (Sunday 11 October at 11:11AM Pacific time) of Remix Fiction Television is Yomi Ayeni, the Creative Director from Expanding Universe. Yomi has worked in some form of creative media his entire career which spans broadcast radio, television, and now embraces interactive social storytelling. Expanding [...] Remix Fiction is excited to announce this weekend (Sunday @11am Pacific Time) we will interview the creative team at Funnel Productions on the heels of the recent conclusion of their alternate reality game, Purity Towers. This was Funnel Production’s third full-scale independent ARG following their previous productions; Man of the People and Myth of the Seeker. We’ll [...] Congratulations to everyone who made Maddison Atkins a huge success! This independent Alternate Reality Game, billed as a “social show” or “diet ARG”, followed Adam Wilmont (Jason Zednick) and Maddison Atkins (Faye Austin) as they struggled to deal with the strange events unfolding in their lives. The transmedia story was told through video, social media websites, [...] Pinocchio is often portrayed as a morality tale used to admonish young children to keep them from lying, and to highlight the consequences of being less than completely honest. However, at it’s core, it’s the story of a wooden puppet (a fictional construct), brought to life by a magical fairy, who strives to [...] [...] I’ve never really cared for the term Puppetmaster for a person behind the scenes in an Alternate Reality Game, but I haven’t come across a term that I want to replace it. The term “puppetmaster” conjures up images of a mindless audience or characters in a story being controlled by one god-like entity. It can also [...] |
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