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Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age
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a look at the creative and technical worlds of immersive storytelling
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The Digital Rocking Chair
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John Gaudiosi: "There’s a new transmedia take on Mickey Mouse underway at the Walt Disney Company. Disney Mobile is releasing the latest iteration of its bestselling Where’s My Water? franchise on June 20 and the first to feature Mickey Mouse" ...
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Read Mashable's Disney's 'Infinity' Is a Toy Box Like No Other for more on Disney at E3. 
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Dean Takahashi: "John Vignocchi shows off the latest with Disney Infinity in a video interview. He says that Disney isn't just copying Skylanders."
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
A fabulously in-depth look at Infinity, the new toy-game hybrid from Disney.
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Asi Burak details what went right and wrong in terms of executive production for Half the Sky Movement: The Game.
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
A fascinating article. If you'd like to know more about the game itself, check out Half The Sky Movement Is A Facebook Game For (Spare) Change over at Fast Company or play it on facebook.
Karen B Wehner's curator insight,
April 15, 2013 8:44 AM
Generous and fascinating post-mortem on important ''for good'' game seeking to boost literacy and gender equality in development nations.
Karen B Wehner's curator insight,
April 15, 2013 8:45 AM
Generous and fascinating post-mortem on a high-profile ''game for good' focused on literacy and gender equality in developing countries.
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![EVE Online Makes History [#Transmedia] | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/RQqMhCuHOUbqbaVJPMnbeDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Noah J Nelson: "The massively multiplayer game EVE Online is a siren song for sci-fi fans looking to lose themselves in a starfaring society" ...
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
With the new EVE interactive timeline player narratives can become canon, can become part of the world's official backstory. Is this the ultimate in fan engagement?
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Peter Smith: "Defiance is both a TV series and a video game, designed to support each other. The game launches today, the TV series in two weeks."
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
In case you've missed all the coverage to date, here's an excellent article explaining what the transmedia experience called Defiance is all about.
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Celina Beach: "Over the years, Rockne S. O’Bannon has transformed more than a few science fiction projects into cult classics: O’Bannon helped shape the futuristic worlds depicted in properties including Alien Nation, SeaQuest DSV, and Farscape."
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Gosh, just realized that I've been tracking the development of this project for close to 18 months now! You can check out previously scooped articles here.
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!['Alt-Minds' preview: Immerse yourself in 'total fiction' [#Transmedia] | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/WeYTde_VbvrbuEI4c-Wf6jl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Digital Spy: "Alt-Minds, from Orange and Lexis Numérique, has been described as "transmedia" and "total fiction" - a game which blends reality and fiction together. Running for eight weeks, the story plays out in real-time as players are tasked with investigating the disappearance of five students."
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Adam Rosenberg: "Defiance is aiming to be your next, great RPG timesuck. The console- and PC-bound release serves up an entirely new sci-fi universe--complete with tie-in Syfy series--in the context of a third-person action/RPG that mixes reflex-based shooting with number-crunching stat-boosting and color-coded loot drops. There's a little Diablo, a little Borderlands, and a little Guild Wars 2, all wrapped inside of an MMO-style framework that offers plenty of original flavor" ...
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John Gaudiosi: "The studio was ahead of the transmedia curve and thus far it’s paid off for them and all of the content creators they’ve worked with. Gaming and Hollywood continues to converge and these creatives are forging ahead with new cross-platform experiences" ...
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Keith Stuart: "The term 'transmedia' has been derided in the past, but a Parisian developer reckons it may be the future of gaming, and Alt-Minds is the first instalment" ...
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"When even your t-shirts are contributing to a property’s fiction, you have to be very, very careful you don’t establish canon which will later contradict what another product communicates, or box a team into particular narratives."
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![Divided, It Fails: Defiance’s Multiplatform Narrative Strategy Doesn’t Quite Work [#Transmedia] | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/kpj3GfQ8GoJ7zHWi0q5Uijl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
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"Sarah Tolf discusses Defiance's multiplatform narrative strategy and how it's not quite working for either the game or the show."
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"The third part of this series, contributed by community managers Lisa Pastor and Ashley Alicea, focuses on best practices for community management, and engaging and growing a Facebook game fanbase from the ground up."
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
This article contains some great insights for anyone involved in building a fan community. The other two articles in the series are also well worth a read: Part 1 Executive Production and Part 2 Initial Concepting and Design.
Update: Part 4 from Frima Studio, developer of Half the Sky Movement: The Game, is now available here.
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"With this second post in our lessons learned series, Emily Treat discusses what went right and what went wrong in terms of initial concepts and content for the Half the Sky game."
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
This is proving to be an excellent series of articles. I can thoroughly recommend them to anyone interested in game design. You'll find part 1 here.
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![Defiance: The Agony and Ecstasy of Codeveloping An Integrated TV Show-Game Experience [#Transmedia] | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/9hhkpZrAnF07ds2iI3eiUjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Susan Karlin: "In Defiance, the Syfy cable channel and Trion Worlds gaming company tackle a never-before-tried $100 million transmedia experiment--a crossover TV show and an MMO game that are interdependent and independent of one another. Showrunner Kevin Murphy tells us how he straddled the two worlds."
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
There's been a lot of buzz about this project, and a lot of articles about its gaming aspects. But now, articles are starting to appear which give insight from a television perspective. Here's a good one.
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Type:Rider is a multiplatform game whose name evokes its basic plan, a mix of mechanical writing (“type” of the typewriter) with the idea of a race (the “rider”).
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
One to watch!
Dolly Bhasin 's curator insight,
April 12, 2013 12:18 AM
Gamification is the new Mantra for elearning!
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Randy Astle: "Tuesday night Facebook hosted a panel discussion about social issue-oriented transmedia at their office in midtown Manhattan" ...
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Transmedia for good ....
Luca Brigada's curator insight,
March 23, 2013 5:08 PM
A very interesting new project of transmedia storytelling
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![How Scott Pilgrim Blended Comics, Film and Video Games [#Transmedia] | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/A4aZGHW-DT2CCAIninIWxjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Kirk Hamilton: "This video essay, by Dr. Drew Morton from Texas A&M University-Texarkana, takes a look at how transmedia can fail (e.g. The Matrix) and how it succeeded with Scott Pilgrim."
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Dr. Drew Morton on Scott Pilgrim: a unique transmedia experience in which visual style is the glue uniting comic, film & video game.
Debbie Elicksen 's curator insight,
February 22, 2013 9:09 AM
How can multi-platform storytelling be a bad thing?
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Alan Robinson: "Whether it has been through novels, webisodes, or interactive “alternate reality” games, the concept of transmedia storytelling continues to evolve in news ways as technology becomes more accessible. Nothing has been quite so immersive, however, as the SyFy Channel’s upcoming TV series, Defiance" ...
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
I'm really hoping Defiance lives up to expectations ... I guess only time will tell.
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Brian Crecente: "Hawken: A year and a half ago no one, beyond the team of nine working on the game, had ever heard the name. But by the end of this year, if all goes to plan, Hawken the game will launch in the eye of a transmedia storm that includes a video web series, a graphic novel, feature film and plans for an animated television show, action figures, a novel and perhaps, one day, lunch boxes."
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John Gaudiosi: "Microsoft and 343 Industries have spent the past three years mapping out a true transmedia universe for the future of the Halo. And it’s not a minor undertaking, but rather a 10-year plan that goes well beyond three new games and DLC" ...
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DELVERINTOVIDEOGAMES: "New TV series Continuum explores dystopia of corporate hegemony, time travel and human augmentation and establishes a compact transmedia world with strong gaming elements."
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Brian Crecente: "Hawken: A year and a half ago no one, beyond the team of nine working on the game, had ever heard the name. But by the end of this year, if all goes to plan, Hawken the game will launch in the eye of a transmedia storm that includes a video web series, a graphic novel, feature film and plans for an animated television show, action figures, a novel and perhaps, one day, lunch boxes."
Oriane Hurard: "ARTE France and its associated producers continue to explore web documentary, participatory fiction, online magazine and many other transmedia creative formats. Among these, Type:Rider is an outstanding example – both in its subject matter and its auteurist vision of video game design."