‘Growing Worlds” An abridged Presentation on Games Writing and Adaptation by Joe Velikovsky
(Note: the first half of the podcast contains loopback echo due to technical issues)
In this abridged (20 out of 35 mins) presentation at a LAMP Insight ‘Growing Worlds - Games Adaptation Seminar’  Joe looks specifically at the practical side of games design and [...]

The AFTRS Laboratory for Advanced Media Production, the first three years of residentials. Around 34 of the 61 projects that were developed over one intensive week to a pitch, flash by in 2 minutes.
These images are part of the original 15-20 minute presentation at the end of that week to commissioners, interested stakeholders and most [...]

‘Building a Social Network” Strategies, implementation and management of online communities.
Laurel takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the various features and functions of organic social networks and how to identify positive and negative aspects of existing services. She refers to how on entry the motto/tagline, tools and what the community are discussing [...]

A rough transcript of a presentation Gary Hayes (LAMP Director) gave as part of the Digital Content Session at the Trilateral KANZ Broadband Summit in Seoul on 19 June 2008. It looks at the emerging nature of Social Media Entertainment but focuses on how creative professionals can keep up with ‘the crowd’. Covers how Film, [...]

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 [...]

Don’t have a black Friday-register now. Places filling fast!
AFTRS LAMP presents two cutting edge seminars:
Generating Online Buzz for Creative Projects
Thursday June 19. Learn how to attract online attention and engage participatory audiences and global consumers.
Building Social Networks and Growing Communities
Friday June 20. Follows on from Generating Online Buzz for Creative Projects, and focuses on [...]

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 [...]

Marissa talks through her experiences of extending stories into online and other platforms looking specifically at her work on the enigmatic cross-media service created by Hoodlum for Emmerdale. She talks about call-to-actions, multiple entry points, point-of-view, story worlds, gameplay and trail heads as part of this experience creation for the audience. One technique she uses [...]

Last year LAMP helped SBS, Change the World and Film Australia by work-shopping some cross-media, social networking ideas around the short films commissioned for the project. They are asking for contributions on the Earth Hour theme and asked us to post this.
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The Change The World in 5 Minutes project is is encouraging one and all [...]

Jennifer discusses legacy technologies leading up to mobile phone 3rd generation services and draws up on staggering statistics that indicate a change toward mobile content delivery over PC content delivery. She illustrates the impact mobiles are making as the new delivery platform of choice; right now there are twice as many mobile phones in the [...]