Archive for November, 2006

What it means to be in SL
Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Justin Bovington showed the above 3 short machinima clips at Second Life Community Convention (SLCC) 2006. As he mentions in the intro Rivers Run Red spent 6 months working on getting the story right and it shows. These 3 short films capture the essence of what it means to be in SL and do [...]

Upcoming SL events in RL
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

For those on the East Coast a SL artists conversation will be held at the Jen Bekman gallery in New York tonight from 6-8pm. James Deavin and Eva & Franco Mattes will talk about their SL documentary art work.
For those on the West Coast Linden Lab CEO Philip Rosedale will speak tomorrow night at the [...]

ARG : story / game / puzzle
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

In her influential Hamlet on the Holodeck (1997), Janet Murray offers a powerful theoretical approach to ARGs. Every new technology-based medium, she argues, evolves in two early stages. The first sees the porting over of forms from other media, as when early movies relied upon theatrical conventions. During the second stage creators pick up on [...]