Business

Pod and Vodcast - The Game of Writing Games with Matt Costello

Jun 7th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Audience, Business, Console, Games, Games Writing, Lead Story, Podcasts, Seminar, Story of the Future, Workshop

John Banks and Peter Giles interview Matt Costello in two parts at the LAMP: Story of the Future Residential held at Couran Cove, Queensland, Australia in December 2007.
Matt talks about story worlds and how the game play is very dependent on the underlying story and how more importantly they really need to be developed in [...]



LAMP at KANZ Broadband Summit, 19-20 June 2008 in Seoul

Jun 4th, 2008 | By Administrator | Category: Broadband PC, Business, Conference, Event, Featured, General, Production, Seminar, User Generated, Workshop

Gary Hayes will be speaking and representing LAMP, AFTRS and new Australian Content at The 2008 KANZ Australia Korea New Zealand Broadband Summit on 19-20 June 2008 in Seoul, Korea
The nine or so Australian speakers at the two day summit will be led by Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the [...]



Podcast - Working Services, Successful Online Business Models

Mar 23rd, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Audience, Broadband PC, Business, Mobile, Music, On-demand, Online Communties, Podcasts, Production, Social Networks, Workshop

Andrew Apostola and Peter Giles outline typical online revenue generating systems and business models. They touch on direct payment types such as free and chargeable content, and indirect payment types such as pay per click advertising models based on traffic volume and sales results. They discuss various forms of subscription models, one example being micro-payments [...]



Seven International Teams Selected for 8th LAMP live-in-lab

Jan 18th, 2008 | By Administrator | Category: ARG, Broadband PC, Broadband TV, Business, Games, Interactive TV, Locative, Mobile, On-demand, Production, Project, Residential Feb 2008, Seminar, Social Networks, TV, User Generated, Virtual Worlds, Workshop

The next residential is LAMP’s first official international event with three teams from New Zealand and four from Australia. The intensive week of development will be held at Marysville in Victoria from 24-29 February 2008, is part sponsored by the New Zealand Screen Council and is the eighth live-in development lab that LAMP has conducted [...]



Podcast - Andrew Apostola ‘How to Make Money from Online Content’

Jan 16th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Broadband PC, Business, General, Mobile, Podcasts, Seminar, Story of the Future

Andrew looks at the nuts and bolts of making money with your content online. He looks at a range of emerging online portals setup to aggregate and share revenues with independent content providers and talks about examples including Revver, Grouper, BlipTV and Crackle. To create a sustainable business you have to connect with interest groups [...]



Podcast - John Banks ‘Propogating Social Networks and MMOG Development’

Jan 16th, 2008 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Business, Games, Podcasts, Social Networks, Story of the Future

John explores the intersection of online games and games communities and highlights key techniques in drawing traffic and communities to your property. He uses Fury developed by Auran games as one example and how the relationships with key influencers were nurtured, using genuine and authentic dialogue and co-creation. He is clear pointing out that the [...]



LAMP VIII: End of Feb Residential - Get your Skates on!

Dec 14th, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: ARG, Broadband PC, Business, Console, Games, Interactive TV, Mobile, On-demand, Production, Residential Feb 2008, Seminar, Social Networks, Virtual Worlds, Workshop

Don’t Just Sit Around this Christmas Holidays -
the next LAMP residential is just around the corner
Have you got what it takes to apply?
We are looking for six to eight professional teams with groundbreaking new media ideas to attend our leading R&D production lab from Feb 24 -29, 2008.
Facilitated by the AFTRS, the Laboratory for Advanced [...]



Six Podcasts - The Virtual Story

Dec 8th, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: ARG, Broadband PC, Business, Console, Design, Film, Games, Lead Story, Machinima, On-demand, Podcasts, Production, Second Life, Seminar, Social Networks, User Generated, Virtual Worlds, Workshop

THE VIRTUAL STORY
Six half hour podcasts featuring SLCN.tv, Physical TV, Jackie Turnure, Gary Hayes and many more from the Film Making and Cinematic Experiences Using Virtual Worlds and Games seminar in Sept 2007 recorded live at the Museum of Sydney.
All podcast presentations produced and presented by LAMP @ AFTRS.
Audio edited & processed by Gary Hayes. [...]



Mentors Finalised for LAMP VII: Story of the Future

Sep 24th, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Business, Residential Nov 2007, Seminar, Story of the Future, Workshop

A stellar line-up of mentors from all over Australia and a few internationals have been confirmed for the 7th Live-in-lab (LAMP: Story of the Future) on South Stradbrooke Island, Queensland Nov 07. They can be seen on the mentors page or copied below.
GUARDIAN MENTORS
MATT COSTELLO - Writer and Games Designer, Polar Productions
Matt Costello [...]



Podcast - From Blue Sky to Green Light

Jun 29th, 2007 | By Gary Hayes | Category: Business, Games, Podcasts, Seminar

DEBORAH TODD - “From Blue Sky to Green Light”
© Deborah Todd. Deborah talks about the games design development process and how story and character are critically important for reversioning existing properties.
The Presentation
The third of three podcasts from Deborah Todd, Jackie Turnure and Luke Carruthers recorded live at the at the AGL Theatre, Museum of Sydney [...]