Archive for October, 2006

ARGN Netcast

ARG Cross-Media Design Culture IndustryPublished October 30, 2006 at 9:11 pm 4 Comments

The Alternate Reality Gaming Network has started a podcast, well, netcast. It looks like they will be delivering ARG commentary every week, which is great news. Although the style of the show is casual, subjective chat, there are some gems for would-be ARG designers, researchers and marketers out there. So far there are two episodes
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The Ultimate New Marketing Company: Crayon

Advertising Marketing Virtual WorldsPublished October 30, 2006 at 9:04 pm 4 Comments

When I started in the digital effects industry as a producer I noticed that the best people in the business were distributed across companies, states and the world. You never had more a couple in the one company. I remember working discussing with AIMIA back then in the early 90s about how they can group
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ARGs in Education

ARG Academia Creative Cross-Media DesignPublished October 28, 2006 at 12:15 am 4 Comments

I found out about an ARG that had been created by some educators in Queensland and covered their research in the forthcoming (I hope it comes out soon) IGDA ARG SIG Whitepaper. Well, just yesterday I flew down to Melbourne to be the external assessor for a class that had the project of creating an
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