Category Archives: Thoughts

Free To Play

This is another interesting article from Tadhg Kelly about the monetising of media on the internet – a persistent and complex challenge for content creators. Free To Play makes a lot of sense but is so against traditional thinking and … Continue reading

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Spreadable Media

Henry Jenkins on top form again. I particularly like what he says about moving away from the ‘infection’ and ‘contamination’ metaphor of viral media. Spreadable Media is much more about the audience and their ability to spread content they like … Continue reading

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Bolton Storyworld

We are working on an R&D storyworld project with Bolton University so last week we ran a workshop with Anna Zaluczkowska in the Arts and Media Department. Here are some of my ideas on the purpose of storyworld I put … Continue reading

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Numina

Interesting piece on the ‘magic’ of games and how well-crafted games can enthrall and entangle the player. I like Tadhg Kelly’s idea about ‘Numina’ being the extra ‘something’ that fleetingly appears beyond the sum of all the parts of a … Continue reading

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GC = Granular Content

We first developed the concept of Granular Content during the writing of the interactive movie CRIMEFACE. We developed it further and used it in a more social way in THE ALEXANDER WILSON PROJECT. Granular Content (GC) is ‘fragments’ or ‘chunks’ … Continue reading

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