Tag: Design
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SPAA 2009 Reaching Your Audience – LAMPicks
Australia’s leading screen conference, run by SPAA, is in Sydney this week and many multi-platform folk associated with LAMP & AFTRS in the past are in force with a record number of panels and sessions. The heavily featured 360 Media (and by implication Social Media) track sits nicely in the theme of this years conference ‘Reaching…
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Mastering Multi Platform Content
Australians now spend an average of 16.1 hours on the internet each week, 12.9 hours watching TV, 8.8 hours listening to the radio, 3.7 hours on a mobile phone and 2.8 hours reading newspapers according to The Nielsen Online Internet and Technology Report quoted in The Australian earlier this year. With internet use now eclipsing TV…
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Surviving the Forest of Kellor
Huge poisonous spiders lie ready to pounce as you carefully traverse a forest lit only by moonlight. This is one of the initiation rights you will face in One Night, a new game that has been prototyped by AFTRS lecturer Ian Brown using Unity3D software. He recently gave a presentation of the project at Gamejam09, the…
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GameJam 09 – Come Play Talk Pitch Listen Invent
AFTRS in conjunction with the IGDA Sydney are running GameJam 09. An interactive event by gamers for gamers – a day of playing, learning about and making games. Come be a spectator, play to win, or get involved in the creative jam session. This free one day event features gaming competitions, seminars, networking and creative…
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Study Multiplatform and Games Virtual Worlds at AFTRS
LAMP has been an integral part of the interactive cross media & digital curriculum at AFTRS for the past four years. As well as its external facing activities works closely with all aspects of social and cross media in the Graduate Diploma for Directors & Production students, Foundation ‘Creating Experiences and Designing Worlds modules’ and…
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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…
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GameJam08 – Nine Podcasts
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…
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Podcast – Transmedia narrative
Diverged technology, converged people, new stories – Christy Dena Christy presents key transmedia topics including remediation, adaptation and interactive broadcasting as well as looking at the many new media-types and media channels that are emerging across the industry. She gives exciting glimpses into new forms of compelling interactivity including distributed narrative, ‘real life’ cross over…