christy Ziff Davis Media Game Group have finished their annual survey: ‘Digital Gaming in America’. The Group are producers of print and online brands such as Electronic Gaming Monthly, Computer Gaming World, Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, 1UP.com, and specials including Pocket Games. They commissioned the Strategy Group to survey US households. 1,558 people were polled from … Read moreMobile Gamer Stats
You’ve probably heard on books on mobiles being very popular in Japan, but now there are entire books available for download as a podcast. The difference between these and audio books? Evo Terra of PodioBooks.com coined the term podiobooks to describe ‘serialized audio books which are made available in podcast format’. This is another technology … Read morePodcast Books
Sony Japan is jumping on providing manga comics on mobile phones. Rather than just provide the images, Celsys’ has developed a program, Comic Surfing, that shows each frame and slowly surfs over the whole comic, makes the phone vibrate on action scenes and will have sound. A video on the comics is online at Wireless … Read moreManga on Mobiles
I was asked to keep news about this upcoming project quiet, but considering it has been covered in the Hollywood Reporter, and the producers were the special guests at the recent mo:life event, I think it is safe to talk. Jim Shomos and Paul Baiguerra of Global Dilemma, have created the ‘world’s first “dramedy” to … Read moreThe 3 Channel Rule
The SBS Insight program has run a discussion on the state of the Australian Film industry. Reel Drama will be broadcast on Tuesday 13th September at 7.30pm and then repeated on Friday 16th September at 1pm. I was interviewed for the program and put on stand-by to fly up, but wasn’t on the panel in … Read moreDiscussion on Aust Drama
Australian TV is experimenting with cross-media, but not in the way you think. A popular gardening/renovation show, Backyard Blitz, had a ‘simulcast’ show (ep.13) on Sunday 4th September in Melbourne on Channel 9. The show was simulcast over TV and a magazine. The content? Smell. When presenters discussed flowers on the show you could also … Read moreCross-media Smell!
The program for The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (IE2005) is now online. It looks like a great mix of subjects (they haven’t listed the speakers unfortunately). I did plan to submit but I didn’t get time to finish a paper. I plan to attend though. It is on the 23-25 November in Sydney, this … Read moreInteractive Entertainment Program Up
Two keen observers of audiences that I admire, Joseph Jaffe and Steve Rubel, have started a weekly podcast — Across the Sound — to discuss new marketing, media and PR. I like the way the blog posts are designed so that you can enter questions before the podcast and comments after it as well.
One of the most important aspects of cross-media storytelling is having the audience move to each unit of your story. Without the cross-media or cross-story movement, your work collapses. Areas of research and practice that you can utilise are the advertising industry (motivation to buy) and hypertext rhetoric (research into hyperlinked stories). On the former … Read moreImpetus to Act
A workshop on how to create cross-platform works for kids (7-20) is currently running in Sweden. The workshop, Let’s Work with Kids!: The Third European Workshop on Children, Youth and Cross Media, targets producers, project managers and researchers in the field of TV, radio, web, and other forms of interactive media. Over the 3 days … Read moreCross-Media & Kids