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Category: Games

  • Podcast – Laurel Papworth “Building a Social Network”

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    Gary Hayes

    ‘Building a Social Network” Strategies, implementation and management of online communities. Laurel takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the various features and functions of organic social networks and how to identify positive and negative aspects of existing services. She refers to how on entry the motto/tagline, tools and what the community are discussing should…

  • 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…

  • Podcast – Marissa Cooke ‘Extending Narrative: The Emmerdale Experience’

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    Gary Hayes

    Marissa talks through her experiences of extending stories into online and other platforms looking specifically at her work on the enigmatic cross-media service created by Hoodlum for Emmerdale. She talks about call-to-actions, multiple entry points, point-of-view, story worlds, gameplay and trail heads as part of this experience creation for the audience. One technique she uses…

  • Change the World in 5 minutes during Earth Hour

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    Gary

    Last year LAMP helped SBS, Change the World and Film Australia by work-shopping some cross-media, social networking ideas around the short films commissioned for the project. They are asking for contributions on the Earth Hour theme and asked us to post this. _____________ The Change The World in 5 Minutes project is is encouraging one…

  • Podcast – Mobile Engagement, Jennifer Wilson

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    Gary Hayes

    Jennifer discusses legacy technologies leading up to mobile phone 3rd generation services and draws up on staggering statistics that indicate a change toward mobile content delivery over PC content delivery. She illustrates the impact mobiles are making as the new delivery platform of choice; right now there are twice as many mobile phones in the…

  • Project – Portable Ghosts

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    Gary Hayes

    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

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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…

  • A Machinima great passes

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    Gary Hayes

    Sad news this week for all those who knew him and his work, well known Australian writer/director Peter Rasmussen has passed away. He was a friend of many on the LAMP team who knew him as a pioneer in the field of machinima. Peter wrote the Australian feature films “In the Winter Dark” and “Mad…

  • 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…

  • 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…