Experience Design
Jon Waite and gang recently interviewed Elan Lee, Sean Stewart and Jim Stewartson to talk about what they’re up to, and the challenge of defining this new transmedia thing we do.
ARG Netcast: Beyond the Fourth Wall (Part 1)
ARG Netcast: More Tales From Beyond the Fourth Wall (Part 2)
ETA: Link to first podcast removed.
Looking through old posts and articles, I ran across this gem that still holds up after 4 years or so…
Part puzzle-infused scavenger hunt, part interactive fiction, ARGs are among the first entertainment forms genuinely native to the Net, culture watchers say. Unlike the online cartoons or games that differ little from their offline counterparts, ARGs…are woven from the fragmented, deeply community-driven fabric of the Web itself.
Here’s a really great interview with the guys at Fourth Wall Studios about the Future Of Entertainment…..
A lot of what people are doing is trying to fit other kinds of content, shoehorn that into the bottle of the Internet. What we’ve been working very hard at is to figure out what the native form to the internet is, what is the way it wants to tell stories?