Ep 004:Tim Wright Interview

Another podcast! Yay! At this rate I might even crack three podcasts a year. hehe. Joking aside,I’m excited about our guest today. UK digital writer Tim Wright shares his vast experience with over a decade with online interactive drama and more recently multiplatform storytelling. Below is a time guide showing you topics Tim touches on a certain points. Everything Tim (and I) refer to is in the show notes.

00.00:Online Caroline
11.10:Lonely Girl 15
13.18:closure
15.58:Balancing world creation and fan fiction
19.56:Mount Kristos
25.33:The Search of Oldton
39.32:Multiplatform storytelling
52.09:Scaling
Happiness…

Show notes:

Jill Walker-Rettberg’s essay:‘How I was played by Online Caroline’
Rob Bevan
MindGym
Jenny Cam
Online Caroline
XPT (fictional company)
Richardson’s Pamela
Lonely Girl 15
Mount Kristos
Kate Modern
You Sucjk at Photoshop
In Search of Oldton
Writers for the Future
trAce Online Writing Centre
Sue Thomas
Multiplatform Storytelling for Screenwriters @ 01ZERO-ONE
Ted
The Lost Ring ‘Running of the Labyrinth’instructions
Jane McGonigal’s SXSW presentation:Alternate Realities (PPT at SlideShare)

More info about Tim:

Tim Wright’s blog
XPT (Wright &Bevan’s company)

Other interviews conducted at UC101:

Lance Weiler (video)
Evan Jones (audio and text transcript)

Postscript:
Sorry about the technical difficulties with the podcast. The video editing software I use doesn’t let me do edits to the second,and I’m still trying to figure out how to get both myself and the interviewer at the same sound level. Tim teases me about being in a black room (it was midnight for me!),and being close to the screen with bad lighting. What can I say,I’m an interactive drama cliche. I’ll have to increase the drama with a call to save the world or something.