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Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age
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a look at the creative and technical worlds of immersive storytelling
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The Digital Rocking Chair
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Josh Herr: "As little as five years ago, it seemed as if video games were on the precipice of a breakthrough moment" ... 
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Rowan Kaiser: "Every other week, a company or a developer or a celebrity says something to reinforce the standard that games are played, created, and especially star white men. But there's much more pushback against this idea."
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Stuart Dredge: "Angry Birds maker Rovio may have seen its growth stall, but there are plenty of reasons to be excited about mobile gaming" ...
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Sarah Kessler: "An ambitious new video game could mean the end of Disney's digital struggles. Here's how it came to be--and why it almost didn't" ...
malek's curator insight,
August 19, 2013 7:41 AM
When you knock logic away, you're now free to go back to your childhood with your toys. Disney is creating a consumer new experience
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Tadhg Kelly: "Games are often treated as a subordinate to broadcast, but they are actually cultural generators. However what's missing for broadcasters is the humanity behind the games. This is a problem that we have yet to solve."
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Tadhg Kelly is always an interesting read.
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"For anyone who’s created a monster hit entertainment property, success comes with a built-in challenge--how do you follow yourself?" Kevin Ohannessian speaks "to franchise director Frank O’Connor and some of the key players behind creating Halo 4 and reshaping the future of Halo."
Cole Larson's curator insight,
September 27, 2013 10:51 AM
I am a huge Halo 4 player I ahve a clan called Pure and I have 7 guys in the clan if you want to join message me on Xbox live. Gamertag SteelWithValor. I think they did a good job on the game I just wish there was longer single player, and more guns in the game. Fun overall I give the game a 9.5 out of 10.
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Maggie Philbin: "Older women are more avid players of online games than young men. Now we need to take part in creating the sites we use" ...
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Larry Frum: 'In 2012, when people build farms on Facebook, kill pigs on their phones and gun down mutant space aliens on their home consoles, how do you define the word "gamer"?'
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"In one month, Diablo III, a hugely popular role-playing game made by Blizzard Entertainment, will become the first major online game to launch with PayPal integration. It will encourage players to sell digital possessions for actual dollars within the game. The lines between virtual and real economies are about to get even blurrier."
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"For newcomers: Zombies, Run! is a running game and audio adventure for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android (coming May/June) co-created by Six to Start and Naomi Alderman, in which you run in the real world while getting a story and zombie chases through your headphones." DRC: An interesting look at the thought process behind the pricing of Zombies, Run!
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"Look out Hollywood, the video game industry is hot on your heels, poaching your talent and raking in the money. And one game has led the way"… A fabulously in depth article on the development of the Grand Theft Auto series of video games from Rockstar Games. The article doesn't shy away from the more controversial aspects of the franchise or, what it sees as, Grand Theft Auto's limited storytelling ability. Because, as Ian Bogost, says "Maybe video games are meant to help us shed our obsession with storytelling, show us all the things between the story, like wandering around virtual space and exploring it like virtual tourists."
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"The Mobile Games Forum featured three speakers from studios that carry out brand extension and advergaming projects [...] Their success stories all share similar points of advice about transmedia game design" ...
Matmi's curator insight,
January 11, 2013 5:50 AM
Transmedia games are set to be big in 2013 - It's interesting that the author mentions that developers must create engaging brand experiences - Matmi have been creating engaging brand experience through games for a while and are now bringing this into the world of transmedia - HK |
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Keith Stuart: "With Fallout 4, Call of Duty: Black Ops III and Star Wars Battlefront drawing lukewarm reactions, what is the critic’s role in the age of patches and updates?"
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Stuart Dredge: "As developers try to make money by creating Candy Crush clones, free-to-play mobile games are in danger of creative stagnation" ...
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Liz Shannon Miller: "Here's some friendly advice for anyone who's passionate about film, television and media in general: If you don't pay attention to the video game industry, now might be the time to start."
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Tadhg Kelly: "Remember social games? Remember how they [were] supposed to be the future, how they were transforming the games industry and all that? No?" ...
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Belinda Parmar: It's a tired cliche that all gamers are male, and it's time manufacturers woke up to the fact that women want to see female characters they can relate to
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Some facts and figures ....
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: "The video games industry is increasingly shifting towards China's freemium model to safeguard earnings from the threat of piracy."
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Innovation isn't just about technology, here's a great article about the freemium business model.
Marie-Jade Dubé-Côté's curator insight,
October 27, 2015 2:00 PM
La Chine influence le monde avec son modèle d'affaire quel introduit aux jeux vidéos.
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Tadhg Kelly: "Social games brought pay-as-you-go, pay-to-cheat and pay-to-skip to games, and the consequent explosion in free play has fundamentally changed what many players expect. The question is whether the so-called mainstream games industry can really survive it" ...
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Keith Stuart: "Talented young games studio Angry Mango is releasing its award-winning platformer, Mush, on Windows Phone today. Here are the five key things they've learned about game development" ...
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John Gaudiosi: "Gaming in the cloud, which allows game content to be stored on a secure server and players to game from multiple devices seamlessly via broadband connectivity, is allowing PC devices to thrive" ...
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Mobile gaming is an industry that is valued, in aggregate, in the billions of dollars. Given its size, the players jockeying for its market share are fighting for consumer mind share, and therefore, wallet share...
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Bart Decrem talks Where's My Water, freemium dominance and Chinese opportunities... For more on Swampy and Where's My Water check out THR's Walt Disney's Mobile Game Character Swampy Gets Web Series.
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The family-friendly online game Wizard101 is bigger than World of Warcraft and poised to grow even quicker as it spreads to China. But creators KingsIsle are making quite a few changes and installing esoteric systems so the Chinese government will let them play there...
[A really interesting look at localization for the chinese gaming market.]
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Keith Stuart: "From mid-cycle PlayStation upgrades to episodic entertainment and virtual studios, something big is happening in the way games are bought, made and sold" ....