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November 28th, 2006

IGDA ARG SIG Whitepaper Released!!

Wohoo! It is here! The International Game Developers Association Alternate Reality Game Special Interest Group Whitepaper ( * whew * ) has been released! Here is Adam Martin’s announcement from the ARG SIG listserv:

After eight months of hard work and hundreds of revisions I’m delighted to announce that the 2006 ARG SIG Whitepaper is now available for download from the ARG SIG website ().

A huge thank-you to all the poeple who’ve helped make this happen. I’m very proud of the final paper, and even more so for the fact that everyone’s time and expertise was freely given. This is a great achievement, and since we came up with the idea at the 2006 GDC Group Gathering our volunteers have: had a new baby, been hospitalized, and created and edited literally hundreds of different revisions. It’s a tremendous achievement.

There’s a contributors list at the start of the paper, but once again here’s the people you should thank:

- Bryan Alexander, Director of research, National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE)
- Nova Barlow, Research Manager, Themis Group / Playerbase Solutions
- Tom Chatfield, Editorial Assistant, Prospect Magazine
- Christy Dena, Cross-Media Entertainment Researcher, School of Letters, Arts and Media; University of Sydney
- Andrea Phillips, ARG Writer, Mind Candy
- Brooke Thompson, Cross Media Entertainment Consultant

Here it is: http://igda.org/arg/whitepaper.html

Enjoy!

[Late Note: I've just been flicking through the whitepaper and there are some errors in there that somehow made it to the final draft. That happens. But one of note is that 'Cross Media Entertainment' is credited with creating Jamie Kane. BBCi did Jamie Kane.]

by christy | Posted in ARG, Uncategorized | 2 Comments » |
November 15th, 2006

ARGs, RPGs, Interactive Drama, Cross-Media, Serious Games, Film, Doco, Literature, Blogs and Marketing

Yep, they are all the topics I’ll be presenting on over the next few weeks in three states across Australia. But what is even more interesting, are the co-presenters. Check out this yummy bunch of seminars:

  • Film Australia’s “Evan Jones Masterclass: Extending Doco in the Time of Digital”

Monday 20th November, 1.30-4.30pm, Film Australia’s Roxy Theatre, Sydney
Tuesday 21st November, 1.30-4.30pm, AFTRS Melbourne, Docklands Theatrette, Digital Harbour, Melbourne
Free Masterclass with the Creative Director of Xenophile Media, creator of amazing ERGs (’ARGs‘) such as ReGenesis I & II and beautiful doco projects like Beethoven’s Hair and Quebec 1749). SEE INVITE [pdf]

  • AFTRS’ “Extended Entertainment Experiences”

Friday 24th November, 10-4.30pm, Chauvel Theatre, Paddington
A day discussing real world cross-media projects: ‘alternate reality games’, experiential marketing and interactive drama. Evan Jones of Xenophile Media and Chris Avellone of Obsidian Entertainment will the international guests. The Marketing Director of Yahoo!7, Cricket Wardein, and Integrated Marketing Director of Yahoo!7, Kristin Carlos, will be speaking about the Australian leg of the international ARG of the Lost TV series ‘The Lost Experience‘ and interactive drama PSTrixi. Glen Condie of Maverick Marketing and Communications will talk about the experiential campaigns created by his agency and Deb Polson of QUT will share techniques she uses in Scoot. Excellent line-up!! Oh, I’ll be giving a presentation about the evolution of these forms of entertainment and MCing the day. Some (old) info and registration details ONLINE

  • Australian Literature Board’s “Story of the Future”

Monday 27th November, 9am-4.30pm, Innovation Centre, AFTRS, Docklands, Melbourne
Wednesday 29th November, 9am-4.30pm, Room B1.11, Building 5, Quay St, University of Technology, Sydney
Chris Avellone of Obsidian Entertainment will talk about RPG design, Simon Hopkinson the President of the Australian Writers’ Guild, Marissa Cooke, the writer for Fat Cow Motel, Jim Shobos of multi-platform drama Forget the Rules fame, Jackie Turnure and I will also be presenting. I’ll be talking about cross-media approaches to writing, distribution and marketing; interviewing Chris Avellone and MCing the day. Registration Form and more details ONLINE.

The following four events I’m running for the Australian Film, Television and Radio School; Australian Writers’ Guild and Dept of Industry & Resources:

  • Serious Games Workshop

Thurs Nov 30th, 6.30-9pm
WestOne Theatrette, Leederville, Perth

  • Everything You Wanted to Know about Blogging

Fri Dec 1st, 6.30-8pm
Australian Writer’s Guild, Perth

  • Alternate Reality Game Design Workshop

Sat Dec 2, 9.30am-1pm
Innovation Centre, Bentley, Perth

  • Cross-Media Entertainment Design Workshop

Sat Dec 2, 2pm-5.30pm
Innovation Centre, Bentley, Perth
Details about these workshops in this [pdf]

  • ‘A Case-Study of miniARGs: Design Issues for Creating Alternate Reality Games for Professional Training and Education’ Paper

This is a paper I’m presenting at the Joint CyberGames & Interactive Entertainment 2006 Conference
Weds 6th Dec, 10am, Perth

  • Alternate Reality Games and Cross-Media Entertainment: Low-tech, high-impact immersive experiences Workshop

A workshop I’m running at CyberGames & IE.
Weds 6th Dec, 1.30-3.30pm, Perth
Full details ONLINE

So, I hope to see you at one of these events. Or, if you email me during this time and I don’t respond, this is why. Or, if I babble incessantly at you, you know why.

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