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  • 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…

  • LAMP at KANZ Broadband Summit, 19-20 June 2008 in Seoul

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    Gary

    Gary Hayes will be speaking and representing LAMP, AFTRS and new Australian Content at The 2008 KANZ Australia Korea New Zealand Broadband Summit on 19-20 June 2008 in Seoul, Korea The nine or so Australian speakers at the two day summit will be led by Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and…

  • Podcast – Working Services, Successful Online Business Models

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    Gary Hayes

    Andrew Apostola and Peter Giles outline typical online revenue generating systems and business models. They touch on direct payment types such as free and chargeable content, and indirect payment types such as pay per click advertising models based on traffic volume and sales results. They discuss various forms of subscription models, one example being micro-payments…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Podcast – Andrew Apostola ‘How to Make Money from Online Content’

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    Gary Hayes

    Andrew looks at the nuts and bolts of making money with your content online. He looks at a range of emerging online portals setup to aggregate and share revenues with independent content providers and talks about examples including Revver, Grouper, BlipTV and Crackle. To create a sustainable business you have to connect with interest groups…

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

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    Gary Hayes

    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!

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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,…

  • Six Podcasts – The Virtual Story

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    Gary Hayes

    THE VIRTUAL STORY Six half hour podcasts featuring SLCN.tv, Physical TV, Jackie Turnure, Gary Hayes and many more from the Film Making and Cinematic Experiences Using Virtual Worlds and Games seminar in Sept 2007 recorded live at the Museum of Sydney. All podcast presentations produced and presented by LAMP @ AFTRS. Audio edited & processed…