[arg_discuss] ARGs in Education & PMs in Australia

[Hugh Davies]

Hello Christy



I saw you request for a Puppet Master. While I have never run anything
larger than an ARG at city scale, I do have some experience puppet
mastering, and a huge amount of experience designing narratives in real and
digital spaces. I would be happy to come along and help out. But if you want
some really heavy action – I think that Jane McGonigal is around Hong Kong
and Delhi around now-ish.



I went to the Come Out and Play Festival in Manhattan last month which was
great. I got to meet both Jane Mcgonigal and Jesper Juul! As excellent as it
was, I was completely gushing and made little practical use of the contact.
But I met some of great people and played fantastic games, easily the
funnest finding out that mission I have been on in ages.



Anyway, I have put together a lecture on Street Play and Alternate Reality
Gaming which I have been delivering at a couple of Universities here in
Adelaide. The screen Department at Flinders Uni wants to get it into their
syllabus and me to teach it which is great, but I am heading back to
Melbourne to live in 2007.



I've got a personal mission to get an outdoor gaming festival happening in
the next 18 months and I am using this lecture to build awareness and
momentum so I am pleased to do any academic spots to spread the word as well
as to recruit individuals to assist on my own ARG.



Let me know if you hear of anything else.

Cheers



Hugh


On 10/28/06, Christy Dena <cdena at cross-mediaentertainment.com> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> Here is an update of some ARG action in Australia and a call for PMs:
>
> 1) ARGs in Education
> I wanted to let this list know about some ARGs that have been created
> for classes being run in Australia. Just this week I was called in as
> an external assessor for a 3rd class in Multimedia and Digital Design
> at Monash University in Victoria, Australia. The project required
> students to create "crossmedia fictional worlds', of which ARGs were
> an option. Both of the groups chose the 'alternate reality' design
> aesthetic. They had 5 weeks to conceive, produce and implement the
> worlds. They used numerous websites, emails, postcards, newsletters,
> forums, stickers and so on.
>
> This isn't strictly the first, as I covered an ARG assignment created
> in Queensland in the forthcoming IGDA ARG SIG Whitepaper (I hope that
> will be out soon -- Adam??).
>
> 2) ARG Design Workshops
> Also, I've been asked to run 2 workshops on ARG design as part of the
> Cybergames conference happening this Dec in Perth, Australia:
>
> http://www.cgie2006.murdoch.edu.au/workshop.html#W2
>
> I will be using design techniques from cross-media entertainment in
> general, techniques I've garnered from reverse-engineering ARGs, and
> various ARG design conversations on the web. BUT, I would prefer it,
> of course, if there was a PM there to present. Evan Jones will be
> Aus, but will leave just before this date.
>
> 3) Evan Jones is touring Australia, and here is one of the talks he
> will be giving:
>
> Extended Entertainment Experiences, AFTRS
> http://www.aftrs.edu.au/index.cfm?
> objectID=789966E3-2A54-23A3-6A16BBC1DD5F23F0
>
> So, if you're a PM and may be able to be in Australia early Dec --
> let me know!
>
> Best,
> Christy
>
> School of Arts, Letters and Media
> University of Sydney, Australia
> www.Cross-MediaEntertainment.com
> www.ChristyDena.com
> www.WriterResponseTheory.org
> www.SlateNight.com
>
>
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