Posts in the "Emerging Media" Category

• BAFTA Award for Game

  Education
  A couple of graduates of the USC games course have just been nominated for a BAFTA Award for Games Innovation. I’ll warn you now, their short game flOw is highly addictive as well as strangely beautiful from a visual and audio perspective. It’s great news that the BAFTAs have been far sighted enough to recognise [...]

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• My World

  Innovation
  A student at Arizona State University has posted on a Mac rumours forum some observations about a new 3D social network being developed and tested there. The blogosphere has since come alive with rumours that Google is about to launch ‘My World’, a virtual world/social network which may link to Google Earth and Maps applications. [...]

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• The game has changed

  Casual Games
  Connectivity is changing everything. Have been looking at some presentations from the Austin GDC conference and one slide of Raph Koster’s presentation stood out for me. The game has changed The hot platform is the net The hot audience is the non-gamer The hot feature is other players The hot technology is connectivity The hot [...]

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• Miniclip vs Facebook

  Casual Games
  Ever thought that there are more popular activities than social networking and media sharing on the web? Apparently online gaming – particularly of the casual variety – is the most popular activity on the internet as attested in a recent article in gamesindustry.biz which you can read here. And for those hardcore gamers who don’t [...]

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• Who’s afraid of MySpace?

  Education
  I don’t know what social networking guru Danah Boyd would have made of Melbourne’s RACV club where I heard her speak last week. It’s a such a weird architectural collision of old and new Melbourne Australiana with a massive wood panelled foyer overlooked by two huge silver kookaburras. What better place for an Australian education [...]

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• The End of Big Media?

  Digital Distribution
  Raph Koster is the author of the book ‘A Theory of Fun’ and presents some groundbreaking ideas in a GDC Podcast titled ‘Where Game Meets the Web’. Raph’s blog can be found here. The linear media industries have been hearing about all the implications of Web 2.0 for the past two years and it’s taking [...]

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• Duck for cover: “You Tube meets The Apprentice”

  Emerging Media
  Was just looking at popular vlogs on You Tube and came across Charles Trippy. He’s kind of a bad ZeFrank immitation only younger, better looking and much less acidic. Anyway, Charles has just been selected as a contestant on ‘The Next Internet Millionaire’ which is a reality TV concept on the web. Might be worth [...]

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• Digital distribution of what?

  Australian Production
  

  Just finished reading Richard Harris’s essay in the Platform Papers series – ‘Film in the Age of Digital Distribution: The Challenge for Australian Content’. You can find out more about this paper by clicking here. That was the advertisement, now for the critique. Don’t get me wrong, it’s timely for a paper like this to [...]

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• Emotion in Games 2

  Emerging Media
  I have been listening to an interesting Game Theory podcast with Nicole Lazzaro from Xeo Design, a company who does research work and consultancy on emotion in gameplay. Here is an excerpt where she waxes lyrical about innovation in gameplay and the kinds of emotions we want to explore in games of the future: …next [...]

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• LAMP VI hits the spot

  Emerging Media
  

  We’re currently in the midst of running our sixth LAMP cross media prototyping residential in Freycinet, Tasmania. It has been a very lively and challenging experience with creative teams taking part from a wide range of backgrounds with a dynamic team of mentors and developers. We’ve been very lucky to work with Tony Walsh, a [...]

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