Geoffrey Long is a media analyst, scholar, and storyteller exploring transmedia experiences, emerging entertainment platforms and the future of entertainment as the Lead Narrative Producer for the Narrative Design Team at Microsoft Studios. He is an alum of the MIT Comparative Media Studies program, a FoE Fellow with the Futures of Entertainment community, and a co-editor of the Playful Thinking book series from the MIT Press. His personal site can be found at geoffreylong.com.
The window is closing for all interested parties to get their names included in Interfictions 2, the upcoming second anthology of interstitial fiction from The Interstitial Arts Foundation, which includes a foreword from none other than one Henry Jenkins. Here’s the official update from IAF funding goddess Erin Underwood: The Interstitial Arts Foundation has extended […]
A few months ago, I had the honor of organizing and moderating a keynote panel for the sixth Media in Transition conference here at MIT. Our title (and topic) was “The Future of Publishing”, and MIT World has just published the video recording of it online. I’ve embedded a copy of it here (all 94 […]
GAMBIT’s high-flying CarneyVale: Showtime is about to hit a new height: appearing as one of the 10 best games of 2009 at the Penny Arcade Expo! According to Gamasutra’s Leigh Alexander: Organizers have chosen the 10 best games from over 150 submissions to be showcased at Penny Arcade’s PAX consumer event this year, including CarneyVale: […]
This weekend is Readercon, one of my favorite conferences in the world and, although this is only my second, one I’ve all but sworn never to miss. I love the people, the panels, the bookshop (especially the bookshop) and the level of conversation that happens here, wide-ranging debates that cover everything that has to do […]
Andy Pessin, my mentor as an undergrad philosophy student back at Kenyon (English/Philosophy double major, with concentrations in creative writing and what was essentially multimedia design) has two new books out! The first, The 60-Second Philosopher: Expand Your Mind on a Minute or So a Day, is basically a collection of short thought exercises designed […]
Next up in our series of games from the Spring 2009 semester is The Bridge, another arthouse game from Doris C. Rusch, the product owner of last summer’s Akrasia. This game, a rumination on loss and mourning, is now available to play. You may want to check it out before reading the following reflection from […]
Well, I’m back from my recent travels – and utterly exhausted. I’ve been trying to catch up on my sleep for a week, but that doesn’t seem to be actually working. Last night, for example, I slept for a good eight hours and still woke up exhausted. This is disturbing, as I have a long […]
Keep an eye on the Load Game section of the GAMBIT website! Over the next couple of weeks, we’re going to be launching the Spring 2009 lineup of GAMBIT games, including The Bridge, Moki Combat (v2.0), Rosemary, and the digital version of Tipping Point. The first of these is Rosemary, which is an adventure game […]
Apologies for the recent radio silence – I’ve been preparing for this weekend’s big project. I’m currently sitting aboard an enormous Air France jetliner at Logan, waiting to take to the skies. After the briefest of connections in Paris (seriously – I’ll be bolting through CDG) I’m offto Vienna, where I’ll be teaching a workshop […]
A few months ago, a group of Boston University students invited some members of our lab to appear in an episode of ThirtyOn10, “a weekly news program produced by the Broadcast Journalism Graduate Students of 2009”. The episode, which focused on the video game industry and its impact upon Boston, featured not only GAMBIT people […]
