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Category: Games Writing

  • 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…

  • Pod and Vodcast – The Game of Writing Games with Matt Costello

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    Gary Hayes

    John Banks and Peter Giles interview Matt Costello in two parts at the LAMP: Story of the Future Residential held at Couran Cove, Queensland, Australia in December 2007. The Game of Writing Games with Matt Costello from AFTRSTalks on Vimeo. Matt talks about story worlds and how the game play is very dependent on the…

  • 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…

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

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    Gary Hayes

    ‘ 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…