Tuesday Keynote: Jane McGonigal
Room A
Tuesday, March 11th
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
 Jane McGonigal  Creative Dir,  Avant GameÂ
Jane McGonigal
Start with a video trailer of The Lost Ring ARG.
“Please, I need your help - I can’t do this alone”
[the standard call to action of an ARG these days]
So I wanted to start with that […]
That’s what Raph asks, and interestingly (and annoyingly predictably), the conversation soon strays into the “ARGs must pretend that they’re not a game” mentality. Here’s what I said:
There should be, and I think we’ll see more (soon, probably) marriages of ARGs and MMOs, but that’s to say that the ARG genre as it stands is […]
Brother of mine and I are working with Unexpected Media and Play/Time to put together an ARG Games Lab. Here’s what Frank’s got to say about the lab:
Over four days between October 22nd and 26th, twenty creative
professionals artists, writers, developers and producers from
backgrounds in theatre, video-games, animation, web design, tv and
radio - will collaborate and […]
I’ve been invited to take part in a panel for next year’s SXSW, Stories, Games and Your Brand by my good friend Rachel Clarke, of Behind the Buzz.
Here’s the blurb for the panel:
A look at how interactive gaming, storytelling and puzzles can engage users with your brand. Movie and TV producers are increasingly using these […]
Just a quick note to say that the fine folks at PSFK have put up their notes and video of a talk I did about a month ago at the PSFK London conference. It’s only half an hour long, so even if you skip the boring bits it shouldn’t take too long to slog through […]
I completely forgot to post a reminder about this ahead of time - the night before (only just) isn’t really enough warning, but at least I did post about the talk I’m doing at the Cheltenham Science Festival about a month ago.
Anyway: I’ll be speaking at the Cheltenham Science Festival this year at Virtually Nowhere […]
I gave a short talk about ARGs and Perplex City at the PSFK London Conference last Friday (1 June 2007). It was one of the shortest talks that I’ve ever done - only about 30 minutes - and as with most talks where the majority of the audience is unfamiliar with ARGs, one where the […]
Some posts from the ex-Mind Candy ARG team:
Adrian’s post
Andrea’s post
Naomi’s post
David’s post
My brother Adrian is also moving on from Mind Candy. The two of us have talked about what we might do next, and I imagine that we’ll be talking about it as soon as we’ve figured out what it is. I think it’s fair to say, though, that we share some interests.
ARG! The Attack of the Alternate Reality Games
Room 9C
Saturday, March 10th 2007
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Part game, story and treasure hunt, alternate reality games introduce people to a world of creative play, skywriting, online games, phone calls, radio broadcasts, secret websites, blogs, texts, coded adverts, emails, hidden audio files and helicopter chases. What you need […]
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