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Category: Virtual Worlds

  • 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 – 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…

  • LAMP Project Atom Finalist – Thursday’s Fictions in Second Life

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    Gary

    Previously highlighted on the LAMP site here The Thursday’s Fictions cross-media jamboree continues on and has been put into the Atom finals awards 2008 as Best Multimodal Production (other 3 entries below). Award Recipients – Names: Richard James Allen, Gary Hayes, and Karen Pearlman Award Recipients – Organisations: The Physical TV Company, AFTRS LAMP (The…

  • Project – Catalyst

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    Gary Hayes

    , 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

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    Gary Hayes

    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…

  • Project – podscape

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    Gary Hayes

    LAMP Lab: Marysville, Victoria, February 2008 Title: podscape – NZ Tagline: You’re in the band Project Description: Social virtual world networking where ‘Your in the Band’, a revolutionary new way to interact with friends and strangers alike. Patent pending. Target Media: Web, Virtual World, Mobile, Locative Team Members: Chris White – Creator/Producer Kentaro Yarrada –…

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

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    Gary Hayes

    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

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    Gary Hayes

    , 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…

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

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    Gary

    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…

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

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    Gary Hayes

    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,…