Category: Virtual Worlds

  • Social Media Counts

    LAMP’s Gary Hayes created, posted & paged (on his top 5 Australian AdAge blog, Personalizemedia) this simple flash app a few weeks ago to demonstrate the tsunami of content, communication and commercial activity across Social Media, Mobile and Games. The widget, embedded below, rather ironically went viral itself as it is was linked to from Wired,…

  • Jacobson Brothers Nov 16 Launch for World First Mordy Koots

    Jim Shomos, innovative Australian writer/producer and also LAMP mentor, is about to launch his latest collaboration Mordy Koots, on an unsuspecting public. Gary blogged about the project last month & prior to their shoot in a post entitled Thumbs-up for Aussie innovation live action film-in-game looking at Mordy as a new genre, other examples and…

  • Vodcasts – Seminar: Art & Craft of Machinima

    STUDY GAMES AND VIRTUAL WORLDS part time at AFTRS in 2010 All video and audio below recorded at the AFTRS Theatre April 2009. LAMP pod and vodcasts are published through iTunes – click on the icon on the right if you have iTunes to subscribe now! SIX SEMINAR VIDEOS – Click the skip arrows to…

  • The Social Media Campaign: Seminar & Workshop

    THE SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN: CONNECTING & CONVERSING WITH YOUR AUDIENCE COMMUNITY Social media has exploded over the last 3 years,  the scale of this phenomenon means no one can ignore it anymore. For example mid 2008 there were over 113 million blogs, 200 million active Facebook users & over 1.1 billion twitter messages. Today over…

  • Seminar: Massively Multi-Storyteller Worlds – LAMP ‘State of Play’

    NOTE – TO BE RESCHEDULED IN NEXT TWO WEEKS: LAMP ‘STATE OF PLAY’ SEMINARS Profiling successful case studies, people and the latest techniques across multi-platform social media. PRICE – FREE: Themed seminars running on the last Wednesday of every month at 5.30 – 6.30 pm PLACE: No need to register just turn up to the…

  • Art & Craft of Machinima – Seminar & Interactive Workshop

    VIRTUAL STORY: THE ART AND CRAFT OF MACHINIMA Three hour seminar – Thurs 14 May. Full day workshop – Fri 15 May Machinima is a dynamic new form of storytelling that will be explored in a seminar and interactive workshop at AFTRS this week. This unique event will feature leading international experts speaking about the…

  • Multiplatform Content Seminars & Workshops

    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…

  • Macbeth Goes Live in Second Life

    Early last year (2008) a LAMP initiated project called “Macbeth:What If” from the 7th residential received development/production funding from the NMC and the Australia Council (who also part funded the LAMP: Story of the Future residential) last year. Project creator Kerreen Ely-Harper teamed up with producer Kate Richards, Virtual World creator Angela Thomas and another…