Lance Weiler at TFI Interactive 2013 - ‘Designing With instead of For’ - Wish for the Future
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Full Trailer for Batman: Arkham City
Batman: Arkham Origins features an expanded Gotham City and introduces an original prequel storyline occurring several years before the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City. Taking place before the rise of Gotham City’s most dangerous villains and assassins, the game showcases a young, raw, unrefined Batman as he faces a defining moment in his early career as a crime fighter that sets his path to becoming the Dark Knight. As the story unfolds, witness identities being formed and key relationships being forged.
Full Trailer for Batman: Arkham Origins
Batman Arkham features an expanded Gotham City and introduces an original prequel storyline occurring several years before the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City. Taking place before the rise of Gotham City’s most dangerous villains and assassins, the game showcases a young, raw, unrefined Batman as he faces a defining moment in his early career as a crime fighter that sets his path to becoming the Dark Knight. As the story unfolds, witness identities being formed and key relationships being forged.
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From the Panel to the Frame: Style and Scott Pilgrim by Drew Morton
How does style link the Scott Pilgrim comics, film, and video game? This visual essay, composed by Dr. Drew Morton (Assistant Professor of Mass Communication at Texas A&M University-Texarkana), analyzes how Bryan Lee O’Malley’s books were formally interpreted by director Edgar Wright and game designer Paul Robertson.
Robot Heart Stories: Transmedia & Education
Robot Heart Stories is the first in a trilogy of experiential learning projects from award winning storytelling visionary and experience designer Lance Weiler and creative producer Janine Saunders. Each project will inspire young and old alike to co-create and share. The goal is to reboot how we think about learning in an effort to unleash a collaborative journey into the future of education. The trilogy focuses on air, land and sea in three unique participatory storytelling initiatives designed to develop creativity, digital literacy and collaborative problem solving skills.
Redefining TV: Tim Kring at MIPTV 2013
As the re-inventor of classic sci-fi and thriller genres, as in Heroes, Conspiracy For Good, Touch and Daybreak, Tim Kring continues to evolve new ways to reach an audience. The next generation of storytelling will be less about TV, and more about reaching audiences on multiple platforms.
New narratives will be both linear and nonlinear and driven from episodic storylines melding with interactive conversations on social and mobile media. The new model will likely combine a wealth of public discourse, a bevy of interactive content and a truly connected game experience at the core.
Transmedia, Hollywood 4: Spreading Change
On Friday, April 12, 2013, the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television is teaming up with USC Annenberg School of Communication and USC School of Cinematic Arts for the Transmedia, Hollywood 4 conference. Presented by the Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. foundation, the theme of the conference will be “Spreading Change”.
T is for Transmedia, learning through transmedia play
Henry Jenkins and The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab presents the ‘T for Transmedia report’ which attempts to outline some core transmedia design principles for educators, media producers and young people.
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Understanding Transmedia: How story worlds are changing the art of communication by John Hartman
Finally Game of Thrones Ascent is now open on Open Beta
In Game of Thrones Ascent players will lead the life of a noble during the time of upheaval as portrayed in the books and the series thus experiencing a new type of game that unites both story and strategy. Players will claim their birthright by choosing which of the great houses they’ll swear allegiance to, securing their holdings, developing their lands and personal reputation, and assigning sworn swords to quests—while forging alliances with new friends and much more!
