We need to make better games. I was at PAX Dev last week, the almost-new game developers conference that runs just before the Penny Arcade Expo. We were told not to tweet or blog about the content of the conference to allow developers to feel safe talking about strategies and stats, so I’m going to… Continue reading »
Nov
24
The Business of Art: Brian Clark at Transmedia Vancouver (2/2)
One For Them, One for Us Back at StoryWorld, Brian Clark mentioned a business tactic that inspired a lot of us from Vancouver, and that was “one for them, one for us.” Do the projects for clients in order to make money, then use that money to help fund your own projects, to do the… Continue reading »
May
20
Meetup Overview; Transmedia as World
On Wednesday, I held the first Transmedia Vancouver Meetup to discuss transmedia and what we wanted from the group. There were about a dozen attendees, which I thought a fantastic turnout for a first meeting. There’s a lot of interest in this city, as has been clear from the previous Merging Media conferences and seminars.… Continue reading »
May
03
Merging+Media Lab Overview, Part 1
Last Thursday and Friday I had the opportunity and pleasure of attending Merging+Media‘s transmedia seminar and lab with Anita Ondine (who teaches transmedia around the world and among other things produced Lance Weiler’s Pandemic). Thursday morning was the seminar, which anyone could attend. It covered a lot of the basics of transmedia, mostly things I’d… Continue reading »
Mar
15
Azrael’s Stop Contest Announced
If you’ve been following Azrael’s Stop, you’ll know that a lot of people die in that bar, many coming there as if led. It is named for the Angel of Death, after all. And you’ll have noted that at the end of February, we released a special piece of bonus content in the form of… Continue reading »
Feb
28
Story Plus World
One of the roles of a transmedia creator is to develop the storyworld of a property, to ensure that it is big enough and rich enough to sustain stories across media, and to ensure that it has a consistent theme and tone. Last week, Chuck Wendig wrote an article about worldbuilding for writers, and I… Continue reading »
Feb
21
Music and Motif in transmedia
When you talk about transmedia, you usually hear about films, TV, digital media, games, comics. Increasingly, books make the list. But it’s not nearly as often you hear about music. And yet, as Nick Braccia, Haley Moore, and Campfire’s Mike Monello discussed in the latest Transmedia Talk podcast, the music industry has been doing “transmedia”… Continue reading »
Jan
31
Silverstring Media business launch
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working like a madman on a Sekrit Projekt, and it is finally ready to be revealed. You see it all around you as you read this post. Silverstring Media is being relaunched — not just as a blog about transmedia written by me, but as a fully-fledged transmedia… Continue reading »
Jan
28
The Hunger Games transmedia potential
I wrote two articles this week at Words and Things about The Hunger Games trilogy, what I did and didn’t like, things we can learn from a writing perspective, etc. I’ve heard brief discussion about the potential of turning the Hunger Games into a transmedia property, and I thought I’d make a couple notes on… Continue reading »
Jan
17
Tying together transmedia through theme
The oft-discussed construct that ties together the individual pieces of a transmedia property is the storyworld, the universe in which the stories all take place. But I think that’s pretty self-evident — if they don’t take place in the same storyworld, they’re not connected in the way transmedia needs to be. What’s discussed much less,… Continue reading »
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