Remix Fiction Talks to Adrian Hon About Smokescreen

Martin Aggett — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:30:42 +0000

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 of scheduling interviews at times which are convenient for our guests. We will still try and broadcast in the morning (Pacific time) so that our viewers in the UK and Europe have the chance to watch us live and participate. The show featuring Adrian Hon will be recorded live on Sunday November 1st at 10am Pacific time and will be archived on this site and on Ustream for those of you who can’t join us for the live event.

As always, you can participate in every broadcast by sending in your questions for our guests in advance or during the show. We would love to hear your opinions and get your questions about Six to Start’s latest project. Smokescreen is a flash-based internet simulation that incorporates video and alternate reality gaming aspects to tell a story. You experience the narrative through thirteen missions that invite you into the exclusive online social network of White Smoke which was created and is managed by teenagers. Sponsored by UK’s Channel Four, this project aims to educate teens on the hazards and potential consequences associated with online behavior.

About SIX TO START

We invent and build new kinds of entertainment…

…new kinds of entertainment that are designed, from the start, to live on multiple platforms.

For us, this has so far included alternate reality games, integrated on-and-offline experiences for theme parks, playful storytelling like We Tell Stories, or more game-like things. Who knows what it might involve next, but everything we make reflects our joy in entertaining people through play and stories.

We’re about storytelling and play

Storytelling is a huge part of the world’s culture, and great stories have always had the ability to move and excite us, whatever the medium.

Play means a lot to us, too. We draw inspiration from video games, boardgames, casual games and playful applications and services.

Play helps us learn, grow and deal with new experiences – and when play and storytelling are combined, they give us the opportunity to deeply engage with our audience and get them to do things – as a large single group, or individually. Great storytelling and great gameplay are at the heart of what we do.

We’re about partnerships and quality

Our name goes on everything we make. So we won’t make anything that’s not great. We see our clients as creative partners in creating fantastic high-quality entertainment and we’ve learned from working with people like Disney, the BBC, Kudos Film & Television, Penguin and Channel 4 that we’re happiest when we’re involved in a partnership where we’re confident we can excel. And where we’re asked to create genuinely innovative stuff, not just make an ARG because it’s the latest thing.

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Remix Fiction Talks to Adrian Hon About Smokescreen