Tag: Writer

  • 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…

  • Vodcasts – Open Social Collaboration Tools

    STUDY MULTIPLATFORM CONTENT part time at AFTRS in 2010 All video and audio below recorded at the AFTRS Theatre April 2009. LAMP pod and vodcasts are published through iTunes – click on the icon on the right if you have iTunes to subscribe now! FOUR SEMINAR VIDEOS – Click the skip arrows to move between…

  • Seminar: Massively Multi-Storyteller Worlds – LAMP ‘State of Play’

    NOTE – TO BE RESCHEDULED IN NEXT TWO WEEKS: LAMP ‘STATE OF PLAY’ SEMINARS Profiling successful case studies, people and the latest techniques across multi-platform social media. PRICE – FREE: Themed seminars running on the last Wednesday of every month at 5.30 – 6.30 pm PLACE: No need to register just turn up to the…

  • Podcast – Joe Velikovsky “Growing Worlds’

    ‘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

    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…

  • LAMP Insight Seminars – Creating Online Buzz, Growing Communities

    ‘Inviting Participants to Your Party and Keeping Them There’ will demystify Web 2.0 and help you harness its power to promote your creative project online. This LAMP Insight Seminar series in Hobart, Sydney and Melbourne examines techniques to attract online audiences and keep them coming back for more. It also explores how to effectively promote…

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

    ‘ 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…