christy A while ago I was invited to join the community at V-Lodge. V-Lodge is created by Sergey Salomakhin and Mikhail Zislis. Here is their description: Our project for in-game advertising, V-Lodge, works from the following assumptions: * A new approach to in-game advertising is required, “virtual billboards” arent’ doing any good! This goes for both … Read moreIn-Game Advertising: the V-Lodge model
I’ve been watching closely the different methods used to tier…to broadcast events that happen inside of the online virtual world Second Life. One of the biggest problems with holding SL events is that there is a restriction on how many people can attend. Too many and the sim will go down. There are a … Read moreSecond Life and broadcast tiering
One of the events i’ll miss while I’m away is this great one. If you can’t make it, the website is full of los of juicy links too. Find out how blogging by women and for women builds networks, improves customer reach, monetizes creativity and infuses your business with Web 2.0 goodness! This event is … Read moreWomen Business Blogging
My mate Tom is the co-editor of this very interesting issue for Refractory. The themes they’re interested in will be right up the alley of many of the readers of this blog. 🙂 Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media is a refereed, peer-reviewed, e-journal that explores the diverging and intersecting aspects of current and past … Read moreCFP: Refractory
Ian Bogost, Jane McGonigal and Mia Consalvo are back with their great sampling of the latest game research. Game Studies Download 2.0 is available for download now. It is a great idea that is quite popular at the Game Developers Conference it is presented at and generally everywhere online! Indeed, I think it is such a good … Read moreGame Studies Download(s)
On the 26th-28th March, the X|Media|Lab will hold a special lab in Mumbai on ‘Digital Entertianment’. The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s (FICCI) FRAMES conference is India’s largest entertainment business event with over 1,500 delegates – it’s the ‘who’s who’ of Indian film, television, animation, interactive, and mobile content. X|Media|Lab is an … Read moreMumbai Lab for FRAMES: Digital Entertainment
Got this from Angela’s blog. It is a video about a help desk query during medieval times. How would a help desk deal with inquiries about problems using a book? Very, very funny. Would be good for the PART project. Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pyjRj3UMRM
Thankyou Colin for the heads up on this great news. “Artefact”, an alternate reality game developed by Mini Studios, Stephen Sewell and Vudu Mobile, has received Strand V funding from the Australian Film Commission. The project is described as follows: Famed Australian playwright and feature writer Stephen Sewell (Stephen Sewell) and Mini Vudu have teamed … Read moreAustralian ARG "Artefact" receives AFC funding
Thankyou Sal for the heads up on this great event. The Human-Computer Interaction Design Department at School of Infomatics, Indiana University, are calling for workshop participants. The workshop ‘Transmedial Interactions and Digital Games’ is held in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (http://www.ace2007.org/ ) on June 12th in Salzburg, … Read moreTransmedia Interactions and Digital Games Workshop – Salzburg
The first International Conference on Cross-Media Interaction Design (CMID) is happening very soon in Sweden. As some of you are aware, I’ve been asked to give a keynote address there. Very exciting! In preparation (mine and yours) I’ve written a primer paper. The primer outlines issues that I feel need to be considered in CMID. These issues, … Read moreCross-Media Interaction Design (CMID): a primer