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 [...]

We are now accepting applications for the eighth LAMP Residential Lab being held in collaboration with sponsors New Zealand Screen Council. We welcome project submissions from project teams in all areas of the media industry and the final selection will a mix of teams from New Zealand and Australia.
Presented by AFTRS, The eighth LAMP Residential [...]

Project description: You are your own adventure. A new web-based writing game in which the participants develop their own take on the mystery story that they are presented with.

Team Members
Bernard Cohen, Daniel Ormella and Natalie Kershaw
Guardian Mentor: John Buchanan
LAMP Lab: June 2007
Target media: Broadband PC
bernard cohen Broadband PC Games john buchanan [...]

Project description: Take the pulse of the city through the wrists of writers, using sms. This is an entirely new service that builds upon the strengths and flexibility of mobile, locative, and social networking technologies, applied uniquely via collaborative inputs from a network of writers. p.u.l.s.e is an innovative collaborative writing project that explores the [...]

Project description: Fun and frolics with three feisty frogs in a swamp.” Animation, interactive TV show which is a combination of adventure, story and game.

Team Members
Kate Kennedy White, Murray Debus and Jon Kudelka
Guardian Mentor: Lisa Romano
LAMP Lab: June 2007
Target media: TV, Broadband PC, Video Portals, Mobile
adventure story Broadband PC Broadband TV frogs [...]

Project description: Everyone has something to hide! The Parcel is an interactive cross-media murder mystery series set in the virtual community of Middlemania against the backdrop of the local council elections

Team Members
Belinda Bradley, Franz Docherty and Albith Delgado
Guardian Mentor: Jim Shomos
LAMP Lab: June 2007
Target media: TV, Broadband PC, Video Portals
belinda broadband Broadband PC [...]

Project description: A beautiful girl is on the run with 100 grand. Do you help her… Or turn her in?” An alternate reality game driven by a “true story” of a kidnapping that is an extension of a short film scheduled for shooting June 2007

Team Members
John Trefey, James Mitchell and Julien De Nys
Guardian Mentor: [...]