Terms, Genres & Formats
As many of you would know, I’ve employed the existing term ‘cross-media’ to refer to a range of practices. There are many other terms though, terms that are equivalent to or sub-sets of cross-media. Below is a listing of some of the terms, genres and formats I’ve come across. I’ll annotate and credit these sometime soon, but please let me know if there are others you’re aware of. I’m an avid collector of words. :0
- 360 Content
- 360 Experiences
- Alternate Reality Experiences
- Alternate Reality Games
- Ambient Fiction (Jay Bushman)
- Augmented Reality Games
- Big Games
- Chaotic Fiction
- Convergent Storytelling
- Cross-Media Entertainment
- Cross-Media Games
- Cross-Media Storytelling
- Cross-Platform Storytelling
- Cross-Sited Narratives
- Distributed Interactive Narratives
- Distributed Narratives
- Enhanced TV
- Expanded Cinema
- Extended Entertainment Experiences
- Extended Reality Game
- GPS Games
- Immersive Games
- Interactive Television
- Intermedia Storytelling
- Intermedial Storytelling
- IPTV
- iTV
- Live Action Role-Playing Games (LARP)
- Location-Based Games
- Locative Arts
- Locative Media
- Location-Based Media
- Mixed Reality Games
- Mobile Narratives
- Multimedia Stories
- Multimedial Storytelling
- Multi-Platform Entertainment
- Multi-Platform Storytelling
- Networked Narrative Environments
- Networked Performance
- Pervasive Games
- Polymorphic Fictions
- Telematic Arts
- Telepresence Art
- Transfiction
- Transmedia Entertainment
- Transmedia Storytelling
- Transreality Games
- Situated Narratives
- Superfictions
- Synergistic Storyscapes
- Synergistic Storytelling
- Ubicomp Games
- Ubiquitous Games
- Unfiction
- Very Distributed Media Stories
- Very Distributed Storytelling
- XME
- XMedia
- XMedia Entertainment
