Kobo Experiments With Experiential Game. Kobo has ventured into new territory, creating an alternate reality game called The Descent for a three-week contest to help promote the launch of Dan Brown’s new novel Inferno. The Canadian-based company enlisted U.K. self-published author J. F. Penn to write three original short stories in a similar style to Brown’s mysteries, which can be downloaded for free. Clues, puzzles, signs and symbols that readers can follow and solve have been embedded within the e-books to allow readers to play the role of Brown’s protagonist, channeling their "inner Robert Langdon" Kobo is offering more clues on Facebook and Twitter. The first reader who solves the mystery will win $5,000 and a Kobo Glo e-reader signed by Brown.
(Four other runners-up will also win signed e-readers.) "To my knowledge, this is the first time the world of e-books and e-reading has collided with the world of experiential games," John Gareau, Kobo’s director of online marketing, told PW. J.F. The Miracle Mile Paradox ARG Case study. The Arrival: graphic introduction to steampunk ARG. Sideways, Inc. | The Next Chapter in Storytelling.
PotterMore. GoVanGogh. ARGology. Unlocking the Future at the New York Public Library. Growing up, my parents had me convinced that one of the local librarians lived the building’s basement. For years, Jim Caccamo was an archivist at the Hudson Library and Historical Society, and spent countless hours preserving the library’s collection of artifacts. He spent so much time there, it was a relatively simple matter for the librarians, with a little help from our parents, to convince many younger library patrons, myself included, that he never left the building. I suspect that one of the reasons we were so willing to believe this local urban legend was because the prospect of staying overnight at the library with all of its artifacts from history was such an exciting one.
Sadly, Jim is no longer with us, but the legend he inspired stuck with me through the years. Find the Future is a game developed by Jane Mcgonigal and her husband Kiyash Monsef along with Natron Baxter Applied Gaming and Playmatics, on behalf of the New York Public Library. Comments.
Augmented reality projects transform Boston into a digital cyberland - Art, Arts & Entertainment. With an open mind and smartphone in hand, people traveling from one area of the festival to another will look on as aliens invade the public space around them in an art project titled Occupation Forces. The artwork, created by Mark Skwarek, is made possible through a technology called augmented reality (AR for short). Geolocation-linked computer-generated graphics are superimposed onto the environment in real time via a specially designed augmented-reality smartphone app. As the participants view the scene on their smartphone it creates an interactive illusion that changes as they navigate through the area. "Viewers experience an unfolding narrative through time and space, transforming daily real-world existence into something visually stunning and otherworldly.
The project encourages people to explore the urban environment, letting them see the world like they never have before," explains Boston Cyberarts Festival organizers. Transmedia Ready by Karine Halpern since 2010.
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There were some minor updates in the trades this past week regarding the status of the fourth Bourne movie, tentatively titled Bourne Legacy . Actors including Jake Gyllenhaal, Garrett Hedlund and Michael Fassbender are reportedly in the mix for the film, to be helmed by Tony Gilroy. The interesting thing is that the actors are not reading for the recast role of Jason Bourne (previously played by Matt Damon). Instead, Bourne Legacy is intended to expand the story universe in a way that builds upon the existing trilogy of movies, as explained by Tony Gilroy in this article from last October: The easiest way to think of it is an expansion or a reveal. Jason Bourne will not be in this film, but he’s very much alive. What happened in the first three films is the trigger for what happens. Amongst an increasingly reboot-friendly Hollywood paradigm, this is an incredibly ambitious and exciting approach to continuing a franchise.
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