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An in depth look at the guy who penned the entire overarching narrative of the Assassin's Creed series. More importantly, an article pointing at the growing need and want of storytellers for the design of games. Good stuff! 

Another discovery from my PLN: this one from Noah Wardrip-Fruin, editor of books that are on our reserve list as well as one of the dissertation directors for Aaron A. Reed, author of Sand-dancer and CREATING INTERACTIVE FICTION WITH INFORM 7

Henry Jenkins, the father of convergence culture, writes about visual linguistics of comics and graphic storytelling. Comics are a great gateway into Transmedia storytelling.

Mazzuchelli is one of my favorite artists in comics; not only because of Batman: Year One or Daredevil: Born Again (both amazing works), but also the City of Glass comic in the article. What's so powerful about this piece is how it talks about comics bringing the picture plane and language together, what McCloud in "Making Comics" refers to as "montage." Thank you!

by pioneer of transmedia storytelling in Italy

My first semester thesis in Jane's theory class was focused on Transmedia storytelling and how The Hunger Games was poised to be a successful transmedia campaign. Often mistaken for marketing ploys (which yes, some are) I predicted that this was going to happen. Needless to say Jane didn't really agree and gave me a B - however, here we are moving forward in the Hunger Game's series and oh - what's this? Immortalizing the characters and making the Hunger Games' actually come to life. I know we aren't up to Transmedia yet but I wanted to share this because transmedia storytelling is a huge topic and one that I will continuously aim to explore here at Emerson.

Andrew Plotkin mentioned this during his presentation

Storytelling website... of potential interest

I thought this was a great write up and relevant to our program as a whole. Fast Company's Co.Create is also a great outlet to keep up with Interactive in terms of it meeting art and commerce

Brandon - you are one of my favorite people - for so many reasons, this is one of them.

thanks to Stephen Hewitt for sharing this

This looks very interesting--I may already have mentioned this in class...

Full stream of the doc GET LAMP. It is part of the Google tech talk but after a couple minutes it just goes full screen and you can watch the whole movie. 

open-source platform for creating and playing mobile games, tours, and interactive stories....

Andrew Plotkin review

about Aaron Reed's latest work--a review by Andrew Plotkin

a conference related to transmedia storytelling

A novel released in 1500 word segments each day through an iphone application. Part of the work can only be read if physically in the geolocation which coordinates with the text. These optional side stories, called "field reports", are tied back into the larger narrative. They are written in relation to the surroundings which they are placed, so the reader is getting visual cues by the setting. By Matthew Derby. He is also the senior interface designer for Harmonix. 

This is pretty cool! Another Emerson VMA student, Frank Horton, had a start up company that was attempting to do something similar to this idea.

This could be another option for your next/second project....