Category: Community

  • Project – Portable Ghosts

    LAMP Lab: Marysville, Victoria, February 2008 Title: Portable Ghosts – NZ Tagline: The best way to solve ghost mysteries is to have ghosts helping you! Project Description: Become a Ghost Detective from the TV show to the virtual world onto the mobile, the web, print and into the real world. A truly unique social network…

  • Project – Catalyst

    , LAMP Lab: Marysville, Victoria, February 2008 Title: Catalyst – ABC, NSW Tagline: Science that Excites and makes a difference Project Description: ABC TV’s prime-time science magazine program broadcast on ABC 1 and 2 increases its reach to younger viewers via Ruben ‘The Surfing Scientist’ and provides depth and stickiness to existing viewers through it’s…

  • Project – Touched by the road toll

    LAMP Lab: Marysville, Victoria, February 2008 Title: Touched by the road toll – NSW Project Description: In Australia there are five deaths on our roads every day. ‘Touched by the road toll’ is an online social network for all those affected by road trauma. Behind every fatality there are a thousand stories. This online sanctuary…

  • Video LAMP VIII Mixed Reality, Mini ARG – “Old Forest”

    A mini ARG (Alternate Reality Game) with virtual world parallel components as part of the 8th LAMP residential in Marysville, Victoria Australia. We have been running LAMP residential workshops for nearly 3 years now and on the first day we normally run a team bond/building game. The last eight have been 2+ hour long location…

  • Project – The Land of a Thousand Legends

    , LAMP Lab: Marysville, Victoria, February 2008 Title: The Land of a Thousand Legends – NSW Tagline: Doragon Taido! Project Description: The Land of a Thousand Legends is a fully integrated cross media project For 6 to 9 years olds incorporating television, online, mobile and real-world play. Based on the TV series Master Raindrop, it’s…

  • GROWING WORLDS: Turning Your Stories in to Games – Melbourne Seminar

    ‘ GROWING WORLDS: TURNING YOUR STORIES IN TO GAMES Presented by AFTRS LAMP, Australia Council’s Story of the Future and Film Victoria So what makes a great game and what skills do creators of these experiences need in order to develop compelling commercially viable content for the future? A seminar, interview and workshop for story-tellers…

  • Seven International Teams Selected for 8th LAMP live-in-lab

    The next residential is LAMP’s first official international event with three teams from New Zealand and four from Australia. The intensive week of development will be held at Marysville in Victoria from 24-29 February 2008, is part sponsored by the New Zealand Screen Council and is the eighth live-in development lab that LAMP has conducted…

  • Podcast – Jennifer Wilson ‘Generation C and Z’

    A sadly highly abridged 6 minute recording of a great talk by Jennifer looking at upcoming demo/psycho graphics particularly generation C (12-24) that she thinks stands for community, creativity and content. They are non-watch wearers as they have some many devices who needs it. She looks at their current modes of communication and bizarrely they…

  • Podcast – John Banks ‘Propogating Social Networks and MMOG Development’

    John explores the intersection of online games and games communities and highlights key techniques in drawing traffic and communities to your property. He uses Fury developed by Auran games as one example and how the relationships with key influencers were nurtured, using genuine and authentic dialogue and co-creation. He is clear pointing out that the…

  • LAMP VIII: End of Feb Residential – Get your Skates on!

    Don’t Just Sit Around this Christmas Holidays – the next LAMP residential is just around the corner Have you got what it takes to apply? We are looking for six to eight professional teams with groundbreaking new media ideas to attend our leading R&D production lab from Feb 24 -29, 2008. Facilitated by the AFTRS,…