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Author: Gary Hayes

  • Surviving the Forest of Kellor

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    Gary Hayes

    Huge poisonous spiders lie ready to pounce as you carefully traverse a forest lit only by moonlight. This is one of the initiation rights you will face in One Night, a new game that has been prototyped by AFTRS lecturer Ian Brown using Unity3D software. He recently gave a presentation of the project at Gamejam09, the…

  • Seminar: Innovations in Multi-Platform Content

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    Gary Hayes

    INNOVATIONS IN MULTI-PLATFORM CONTENT – Wed 22 April 9.30 – 1.00 pm – Sydney Do you really know what Alternate or Augmented Reality Games are, or what makes Social Media Entertainment really successful? How do you plan, produce and maintain complex distributed narrative, multi-platform services? Why do interactive stories work & how to get clients…

  • Scorched WINS! International Interactive Emmy

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    Gary Hayes

    LAMP mentored ‘Social Media, Multi-Platform’ Drama Scorched won the coveted International Interactive Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences last night at MIP TV. The first time Australia has won this award. A big congratulations particularly to producers Marcus Gillezeau & Ellenor Cox (of Firelight) from all at AFTRS and especially the…

  • Multiplatform Content Seminars & Workshops

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    Gary Hayes

    LAMP @ AFTRS has begun it’s 2009 series of seminars, workshops and incubators, many are listed below. LAMP has been actively involved in getting 360 Content development integrated into the main curriculum at AFTRS (in its new building) for the past year but is now back delivering industry standard, emerging media education. Multiplatform Content and…

  • Documentary 2.0 – Serious Games Seminar Workshop

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    Gary Hayes

    LAMP ‘INTERACTIVE’ WORKSHOP FRIDAY 3 APRIL 10am – 5pm @ AFTRS CLICK HERE TO APPLY: Seminar and Workshop The intersection between documentary filmmaking and games will be explored in this half seminar and half rapid development workshop, providing deep insight into the potential of Serious Games. Both games and stories have long been recognised as…

  • Interactive Emmy Nomination LAMP Mentored Scorched

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    Gary Hayes

    This LAMP mentored project from Marcus Gillezeau and Ellenor Cox (of Firelight Productions) has been nominated in the Fiction category of the 2009 International Interactive Emmy Awards. These awards are held at Milia in Cannes each year and this year it is from 30 March to 3 April. The video below with a voice over…

  • GameJam08 – Nine Podcasts

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    Gary Hayes

    GameJam 2008 was run at AFTRS in Sydney on 1 November and featured talks to do with developing for or playing with console, pc games or online games. Creating and using virtual worlds, games, film cross-over, machinima, writing, AI and educational, fun or just plain cool stuff. Below is a selection of those captured on…

  • Podcast – Art & Craft of Previsualisation

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    Gary Hayes

    A presentation by Chris Edwards, CEO of LA based Third Floor to the Visual Effects Society in Sydney on 5th June 2008 A special released talk related to three new courses AFTRS are offering in 2008 featuring Previsualisation elements – Animation Directing, Games and Virtual Worlds. This is a podcast of a talk Chris gave…

  • Podcast – Joe Velikovsky “Growing Worlds’

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    Gary Hayes

    ‘Growing Worlds” An abridged Presentation on Games Writing and Adaptation by Joe Velikovsky (Note: the first half of the podcast contains loopback echo due to technical issues) In this abridged (20 out of 35 mins) presentation at a LAMP Insight ‘Growing Worlds – Games Adaptation Seminar’  Joe looks specifically at the practical side of games…