Crafting Intangibles is an online international and local event exploring interactive narrative design, being held on June 10th-11th, 2017. The event is sponsored by Screen Queensland, and features some of the most accomplished and inspiring creatives who will help clarify and stretch our understanding of narrative design. Speakers include Brie Code (Child of Light, Assassin’s Creed, … Read moreCrafting Intangibles
AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS is a comedic web audio adventure about the meaning of death for your Chrome browser, or the iPad (no-longer available on iPad as of 25th Feb, 2017). The soundtrack and code to make you own web audio tour are also available. There is also a ‘Making-Of’ diary, and the full writing script [PDF]. AUTHENTIC won the 2014 … Read moreAUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS
“Mars Ride” is a short Twine game I created quickly for fun. It is an experiment in a different kind of player-NPC relationship.
Ken Eklund (WriterGuy – USA) and Annette Mees (Coney – UK) invited me to be an online live writer (weaver) for their 2013 experimental narrative play that combined live and online participants: Horas Perditam. I was teamed with two “threaders” on the street, who I guided from afar through the streets of London. They shared photos and … Read moreHoras Perditam
Deletions, and other pleasures is an online story using remix, where you’re a doctor who heals robots through deleting files. It was an invited piece for the inaugural publication of Deletions: the open access online forum of science fiction studies, edited by Chris Moore and Sean Redmond. Committed to writing about science fiction in all its forms and … Read moreDeletions, and other pleasures
The Book of Revelations Role: Digital Creative Associate Project: Theatre Performance, Digital Pre-Experience, Mailouts Client: Alison Richards (Aus)
Bluebird AR is a serious alternate reality drama created by the Innovation Department at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). The project was the first ARG in the world created by a broadcaster that wasn’t linked to a television show. The subject matter was concerned with geoengineering, and involved real world experts in consultation during development … Read more‘Bluebird AR’ for Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Love Referendum is an alternate reality game (ARG) created by Tallstoreez for the 2008 Adelaide Fringe. In combined video clips, postcards and a website. The story was concerned with Adelaide being in the grip of a potentially fatal pandemic called lovesickness. In an urgent call to action, the Department of Deliberation is conducting a statewide … Read more‘Love Referendum’ for Adelaide Fringe
The dLux Pony Club is a 2007 initiative developed by d/Lux/MediaArts to encourage arts practice and critical dialogue in Second Life. Participants were encouraged to climb aboard one of the uniquely designed magic ponies from our meeting point at the front desk of Odyssey Gallery. From there you participants were taken on a teleportation trail … Read more‘dLux Pony Club’ for dLux Media Arts
The Villager Girl and the Teenbot is my own short story. It is a transmedia short story told over print and a chatbot on the web. The story juxtaposes a coming-of-age story of a villager girl told as a folktale in print, with the coming-of-age story of a teenage robot told through a chatbot (a … Read moreThe Villager Girl and the Teenbot