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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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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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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There is an old but good article on MSNBC on Bringing Emotion to Video Games. It can be accessed by clicking here. David Freeman is interviewed in the article and his book ‘Emotion in Games’ has a lot of great pointers for game developers to understand writing techniques which help develop player empathy for characters [...]
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Listened to a great podcast from GDC which is an interview with author and Halo screenwriter DB Weiss. This is a quote from the interview which I found particularly interesting as we’ve been talking a lot about the games/film relationship lately. Particularly interesting for production design, design of storyworlds and virtual environments. Click here to [...]
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Next New Media is a start up who are launching niche video services on the web with a business model built around advertising. Some big names from the early days of MTV, Nickelodeon and Time Warner are on board as are some of the investment companies which backed the original foray of MTV onto cable. [...]
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Apple’s Steve Jobs has called for the record industry to abandon digital rights management for all online music stores. He has posted a statement on the Apple web site which argues the case for abandoning a system about which Apple often takes flack from consumers. The main complaints are its restrictions on 5 copies and [...]
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The future of filmmaking – and of entertainment media in general – is murky indeed. Ran a course with my colleagues from LAMP today with incoming students at AFTRS. We profiled a range of new entertainment formats and got the students to brainstorm and pitch back ideas of how they would combine them with some [...]
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A few questions our film and TV industry are asking themselves at the moment: Why are Australian films not hitting the mark with the under 40′s demographic? Should we be making films for our own market or aiming at international sales? Does distribution of films over the internet risk losing income through piracy? Surely asking [...]
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