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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Title: Faction Comics - NSW
Tagline: Where the comic world comes to create, share and rate.
Project Description: Faction comics is a global online comic community with ongoing user generated publications.
Target Media: Web, Mobile, Film/TV

Team Members © Leader/Writer Sam Clayton, Designer Nat Jones, Designer Rob Wilby. Strict Copyright 2007
Guardian Mentor: Andrew Apostola
LAMP Lab: Couran Cove, Queensland, November [...]

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Title: Wild Ark - VIC
Tagline: Alice in Wonderland meets Noah’s Ark: A journey through the wild habitats of the globe that begins in the palm of your hand and inspires you to act!
Project Description: Wild Ark is a multi-platform wildlife experience that transcends the zoo walls. At the zoo, kids set out on the Wild [...]

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. [...]

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Title: What If? - NSW
Tagline: Breathes life into literature, taking classic narratives to new realms of possibility.
Project Description: What if? is Shakespeare and other literary texts taught in a virtual interactive world. It is a curriculum module for teachers and students, 13-18 years old. Users become the characters and journey through the story world of [...]

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Title: Machine - Tasmania
Tagline: Building a better world, one person at a time.
Project Description: MACHINE is a competitive social networking game. Two companies, G.I.C. & pSol, vie for world dominance. Players work their way up the ranks of their chosen company by performing a variety of tasks. Each tasks’ solution has a cause and effect [...]

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Title: ALT + Control - NSW
Tagline: Obsession with who we could be
Project Description: ALT Control is an Alternative Identity Game (AIG) site in which participants can actively construct multiple identities creating the story of their own future. The first seeded project within this framework, Miranda, is a compelling online viral collaborative documentary. ALT Control harnesses [...]

Title: Black Creek – VIC
Tagline: Choose your friends carefully.
Project Description: One girl embarks on a quest to discover the truth behind the camp legend of a missing teenager. Black Creek takes a thrilling ride into the imagination of Stefanie and her friends as they experience their first high school camp together. Without their parents and [...]