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.
One of the big pieces of news coming out of E3 this week is the announcement of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, scheduled to drop sometime next year and looking positively amazing. Here’s the kicker, though: while Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is new, Lords of Shadow is not – Mercurysteam, the developer doing the heavy lifting […]
In this clip from the future (November 2009?) Henry sums up the basics of what he’s been saying about convergence culture, transmedia storytelling and the Obama campaign. Henry Jenkins on Transmedia – November 2009 from niko on Vimeo. I really like how the author describes the clip as a “viral-info-snack”; Henry would challenge the ‘viral’ […]
As you might have heard, the Interstitial Arts Foundation is putting the finishing touches on its second anthology of interstitial fiction, Interfictions 2. The book is shaping up to be something really quite amazing – and now we’re conducting an experiment in crowdfunding to get it onto the shelves. Here with the details is IAF […]
For those of you lucky to be running around at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles this week, keep an eye open for our summer 2008 prototype game Phorm, which is being featured in the IndieCade Independent Games Showcase! Posted below is the official press release from IndieCade. IndieCade @ E3: An Indie Games […]
Recently I’ve been reading a ton about the so-called “future of work”. The May 25th, 2009 edition of Time used that phrase as its cover story, and Chris Anderson takes the cover story in the June 2009 issue of Wired, in which he explores “The New New Economy: More Startups, Fewer Giants, Infinite Opportunity“. Both […]
For a while now I’ve been kicking around the idea of how best to aggregate the writing I’ve been doing in various places. It seems sort of obnoxious (not to mention inefficient) to make a short “check out my new blog entry” cross-posting here every time I post something relevant to the other places I […]
On April 4, 2009, the New York Times ran a piece by Brad Stone called “Is This the Future of the Digital Book?“. In it, Stone writes: Bradley Inman wants to create great fiction, dramatic online video and compelling Twitter stream — and then roll them all into a multimedia hybrid that is tailored to […]
If you’re in the Boston area and are a friend of GAMBIT, Comparative Media Studies or GAMBIT Co-PI and CMS Co-Director Henry Jenkins, you’re invited to come help send Henry off to USC in style. From 6-8 PM on June 16th at the new Microsoft Cambridge offices, the MIT Enterprise Forum New England Games and […]
Ivory Tower Defense. Brenda Braithwaite examines the academic-industry divide plaguing game studies in The Escapist. Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO sets. Oh, hells yes. Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction ’10. Nifty conference coming up next year. 10 most puzzling ancient artifacts. I see my next 10 novels. Reforming Graduate Education. Jonathan Pfeiffer nails it.
Sherlock Holmes trailer. Christmas!? Nicholas Basbane’s library. Architecturally so-so, but look at ’em all! Q&A with Dave Grossman. The creative director at Telltale Games shares some more insight into writing for episodic games. John Cawelti on Firefly. “…The partnership between Mal and Zoë echoes the buddy relationship in countless Westerns — they are a unisexual […]
