As I’ve been dipping into YouTube lately – I had encountered this account – “Lonelygirl15” was showing in all the most viewed listings as well as viewer favourites. It seems now that she is a fiction and the whole thing has been a marketing plan to develop interest in a new approach to interactive storytelling […]
A new Australian social networking site is recently underway – likely to be as troublesome to schools as MySpace but I wonder how long it will last – this sort of startup often has a short shelflife. See Babbello.
Grand Text Auto » Interactive Drama, a Private Affair? This is an interesting article coming from feedback to Facade developers about the experience of playing the game. The public vs. private domain of playing a game that isn’t strictly entertainment – the goal/purpose is interact with a couple experiencing some domestic disharmony. Public gameplay is […]
Thomas Malaby has been writing more on games over at Terra Nova – Against Exceptionalism: A New Approach to Games is his latest treatise on the way games scholarship is conducted and he asserts that there are some fundamental mistakes being made. Malaby in Stopping Play: A New Approach to Games suggests a new framework […]
“The secret is, even though it’s called Game Neverending, it’s not really a game at all. It’s a social space designed to facilitate and enable play.”- Ludicorp CEO Stewart Butterfield Mindjack – Stewart Butterfield Interview describing the original incarnation of Flickr as far as I can tell. This is stuff I need to spend more […]
Digital Learning India 2006 23-25 August,2006 Hotel Taj Palace New Delhi, India http://www.digitalLEARNING.in/DLindia Dear Members, The Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (www.csdms.in) is organizing a three day conference entitled ‘Digital Learning India 2006’ in conjunction with ‘egov India 2006’ and ‘Indian Telecentre Forum 2006’ to be held during 23-25 August, 2006 at Hotel […]
There is an interesting little piece over at miscellany is the largest category on the relationship between the ludic and the narrative. the narrative drive is not always primary (or even present – Poker has plenty of ludic and absolutely no inherent narrative drive). The trick, of course, is to understand how they do co-exist […]
Over at terra nova, Bob Moore has an interesting take on the role of realism in virtual worlds. So when do you think the R-word is appropriate in virtual world design? When is it not? I think this is something I’ll need to consider with my online process drama’s. The type of virtaul world will […]
Game/Play is a networked national touring exhibition focusing on the rhetorical constructs game and play. This collaboration between Q Arts, Derby and HTTP Gallery, London provides a basis for exchange and interaction between audiences, artists, curators and writers through the exhibitions and networked activity. Playful interaction and goal-oriented gaming explored through media arts practice | […]
Over at MTV they are commenting on Raph Koster‘s talk and other speculation at the Games for Change conference last month. Apparently all was cheery and hopeful until Raph delivere his final keynote that some felt dashed the hopes of the attendees. Raph’s blog offers an interesting rejoinder where he advises that it isn’t thta […]