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: Killer Gene - who should control the code of life itself? An ARG based around the disappearance of a genetic scientist.

Team Members
Sonya Pemberton, Carla Drago and Dan Thorsland
Guardian Mentor: Paul Bennun
LAMP Lab: June 2007
Target media: Broadband PC, Video Portals, Outdoor, Print, Mobile, TV
arg Broadband PC Broadband TV Games genetic [...]

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: [...]

Project description: A New World. A daring crusade. All in the name of friendship and freedom! CAPTIVE is a fun and exciting quest based online RPG for primary school children centred around British and Australian convict heritage in the 1820’s, taking history lessons into a whole new dimension… fun!

Team Members
Catherine Pettman, Kate Davis and Andy [...]

CATHERINE GLEESON - “Designing the Future”
Recorded live and unedited during the LAMP Story of the Future lab in Freycinet in May 2007 in front of the eight teams developing emerging media projects.
“Design is all about making creative decisions..The thing I want to stress today is the thinking of design, that the best designers out [...]

If film was the medium of the 20th Century and games the medium of the 21st, how do we bring together the best elements of these two monoliths of entertainment?
The next generation of games will rely on story, narrative and character development to immerse users inside the experience so that they are living the [...]

Two international guests combined with solid Australian LAMP mentors deliver one of our strongest mentor teams yet. The current confirmed mentors on the 6th Live-in-lab (LAMP: Story of the Future) in Freycinet, Tasmania May 07 are (full bio details here):
Lisa Romano, Interactive Producer, ABC Innovation
Paul Bennun - Director, Broadcaster, Interactive Producer from the UK
Tony Walsh [...]

We had an overwhelming response to the call for submissions driven by the various seminars and workshops we held around the country over the past months. From nearly fifty extremely strong entries the ten judges have selected the final eight for the LAMP: Story of the Future to be held in Freycinet from 20-25 May.  [...]