Browsing archives for 'Interactive Experiences'

Gaming for Social Change

Future Predictions,Interactive Experiences,Social Change 9 April 2010 | 0 Comments

Over the last couple of weeks, the murmur of a strong movement in interactive media properties aimed squarely at the target of social change seemed louder than usual. Perhaps it was my discovery of Impact Games’ Peacemaker Game which though over two years old, existed entirely outside my radar until I heard the creator and [...]

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Vlog: Choose Your Own Adventure Stories

Interactive Experiences,storytelling 27 January 2010 | 0 Comments

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Technology and Narrative Convergences

Interactive Experiences 21 December 2009 | 0 Comments

When I travel, I always have a dilemma: I can never decide whether I’m in the mood for a classic book, a bestseller, a biography or a gossip magazine. I’m not sure if my habits are typical of an avid reader in this day and age or not. I read multiple books and periodicals simultaneously [...]

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Think Videogames are Puerile? Meet Jenova Chen’s FLOWER

Interactive Experiences 16 December 2009 | 0 Comments

This is a PS3 game. Not a piece of installation art. That’s all I’ll say for now. Ponder that while I go buy a Sony Playstation. Seriously though, I’m curious – really curious. So consider this Part 1. In Part 2, I’ll discuss what this could mean in the wider space of media art and [...]

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Augmented Reality Pt 2: A Phone-Altered Life

Augmented Reality,Interactive Experiences 5 November 2009 | 3 Comments

Earlier this year, I watched that now very famous demo of the MIT project called “The Sixth Sense”, a future phone concept that completely altered the way we currently think of mobile phone. At the time, I remember being awed by the sheer technological genius of it, and the fact that it had been built [...]

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Augmented Reality Pt 1: Raise Your Hand If You Ever Had an Imaginary Friend

Interactive Experiences 3 November 2009 | 2 Comments

I’m a storyteller. So were most of us at one time. Remember the “imaginary friend” you played with when you were a child? Remember the castles you built in your mind for your dolls to live? The finery you imagined them wearing even though your doll was naked because your brother ran over it with [...]