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One documentary is using the Internet to tell the story of a new breed of developers who are bringing independent and small-budget games into the spotlight. 
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Once dismissed as fodder for tech geeks, social gaming is being embraced by everyone from your mom on Facebook to brands like Disney and Lady Gaga.
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David Cronenberg's movies will be transformed into an augmented reality game, according to Cinema Blend.
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I have now defended my dissertation on location-based games. And it went well. Now it is time for the dissertation to live its own life. I invite you to read it (link to download is in the end of this post), and hope that it will inspire, illuminate the area, perhaps provoke, and lead to fruitful discussions. Via Dorothea Martin
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Driven, talented future media makers normally waited until their sophomore year to produce any major media through the program, but this year USC partnered with Ph.D. candidate Jeff Watson to produce Reality, an alternate reality game focused on media creation...
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Drawing on familiar media representations and cultural histories for the sake of building a female gangster actually seems pretty difficult.
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Initially inspired by the unique world portrayed in 5 Gum’s TV commercials and launched with mysterious coded messages, The Human Preservation Project is an Alternative Reality Game, starring Terry O’Quinn and Summer Glau, that delves audiences further into the World of 5 through a transmedia experience...
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Just two weeks ago, we had a little workshop at the agency, of which transmedia storytelling was one part.
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Nearly half of the UK's video game players are women, and now they are designing and writing them too, including top sellers Gears of War 3, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. What took them so long?
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2011's been a year of unexpected protests. We've had the Arab Spring reconfiguring the political map of various Muslim governments and the Occupy movements calling for financial reform.
[This article looks at the video game equivalent of the Occupy Movements and is a cautionary tale about the strength of fan backlash.]
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Considering how people would most likely have their own interpretations on what constitutes as gaming and storytelling, it would be easier if I defined the difference between the two before continuing with this article...
Matmi's curator insight,
January 17, 2013 6:35 AM
An interesting insight into the difference between gaming and storytelling - I hadn't realised there was a distinct difference between the two but this article makes it very clear - perhaps something for those in the gaming industry to consider when producing a game concept.
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Facebook gamers addicted to racking up coins, points, jewels, crops and the like can now do more than earn bragging rights -- and fill up your news feed.
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For those of you who didn’t manage to hear Edwin McRae talk about writing for Transmedia Games at the Transmedia PM meetup this evening, here’s his Prezi for your perusal.
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Download this free PDF for the inside track on toy cars that drive on iPad screens, street games that draw 12,000+ crowds, why Facebook games aren’t on Facebook anymore, and how to build for the post-Flash world...
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![YSA Indie ARGs: An Interview with Jan Libby [ARG Designer] | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/wCrb2wTqbGGGAyILOknTJjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Jan Libby's SNOW TOWN I-Fi App (following on from her indie ARG, of the same name, and original story "Legend of the Snow People") is on Kickstarter ... read an interview with her at YSA and check out her kickstarter campaign at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1270960286/snow-town-an-i-fi-app
[Note: Image is from kickstarter campaign.]
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"Social impact gaming is now a mature community and movement that can't be ignored, with bridges to other communities such as independent film and documentaries."
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Does playing every game in the Kingdom Hearts series qualify you as a true fan? Commenter zombie711 thinks it might be a little more involved than that in today's Speak Up on Kotaku.
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Was 2011 the best year in gaming so far? Take a look at our picks for top games and trends that defined the year.
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To me, Alternate Reality Games are a really clever combination of narrative and user generated content that becomes the game itself...
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I had been looking into computer programming courses for my daughter recently and not found anything that was a good fit for her ability...
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He was cerainly one of the most talked-about marketing things of the year, but now, in typically dramatic fashion—and with a smart digital tie-in to the boardgame Cluedo—Rico has been killed off...
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The business of selling virtual goods in games has been around for a decade, but it only came into its own in 2007 when developers started building social games on Facebook's developer platform.
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When is a game being sexist? When is a game not being sexist? They're tricky topics to wade through with words. Like most things in life, it's easier with a picture.
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This is a post about definitions of art, emotional validation, the duality of play, Iain McGilchrist and whether roleplaying really is what its proponents think it is.
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![[ARG] Vanished Helps Kids Save the Future with Science | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/wsBJWMXXMz0zJpHeEwv0Ljl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
For eight weeks, the MIT Education Arcade and the Smithsonian Institute put on an alternate reality game seeking engage children with the scientific method.
[This article makes a great case study on building community.]
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