The place to discuss, share content and offer tips and advice to OTT - "Over the Top" streaming and Transmedia – the technique of telling a single story or story across multiple platforms including, but not limited to, games, books, events, films and television.
Hi everyone!
I’m currently developing TEMPTATIONS™ as a transmedia storytelling project.
The story currently exists as:
• Published novels
• Feature screenplay
• Proof-of-concept microdramas
• YouTube content
My long-term goal is to continue expanding the audience while developing the project for televisio...
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Life imitates art, and art imitates life. I feel this is especially true with writers, because voice and connection to the material matters so much.
Some stories you're simply not ready to write yet, because you haven't experienced enough of life yet. You struggle with that one scene because it's not...
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I summarize events, weekends, and vacation periods into little ad hoc dramas all the time. I guess that's kind of like a musician humming music throughout the day.
Might be an unpopular opinion, but I wonder if this is largely absent in art.
As we all know, art is subjective. All experiences are unique, the author sometimes even dies somewhere along the way.
So what happens, then, when you write characters who have theory of mind? As in, they’re aware that they...
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For those who have ever played in the ARG/transmedia space, or for those who have been a part of fandom for projects that live across multiple forms of media... what have been some of your favourite audience experiences and why?
Michael Dzurak that's fun!! Did you find any of the clues?
As I said, I only heard of these and read a bit about this James Bond one. But yes, it does sound like fun and a good way to generate buzz.
Not something I've ever done myself, but I think it's such an exciting way to access audiences in new and broader ways!
I Love Bees is still my gold standard, the 2004 Halo ARG where a hacked site coughed up GPS coordinates and payphone numbers, and players had to physically show up at those phones at the right minute...
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Star Wars is the king of the transmedia/multi-platform IP, but one of my favorite nicher IP's that has handled the ARG experience extremely well over the years. While live-service recently ended on th...
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Did y’all ever have characters that you’re really excited to write, whom you know as well as any friend… but don’t know which exact story they belong in? ^^;
I’m currently experiencing the reverse of that with my character Kira; she was supposed to be in Niveous Reverie as the first-ever female jerk...
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I have a character with a wild and crazy origin that's glimpsed in the currently only script he's in... but I decided to write a full script about that very origin. So same world, but different script, but the world will also go through a change... so kind of a new world.
Have you ever made spin-offs of your work that have so much going for them that they also birth spin-offs? Isn't it wonderful when that happens?
Yes, the secondary characters of a story led me to tell their story, & then minor characters did the same. Cross pollination of genres/themes can happen too.
I thought of a spin-off, but veered into outlining a prequel to one of my sci-fi action scripts. That script is an ensemble with so many (awesome!) characters, but it's probably confusing. Billy Wilde...
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Atomfall is the latest game getting the TV treatment, this time from the producers behind The Assassin and Fleabag. It's a British post-apocalyptic story set in a quarantined Lake District after a real-life nuclear disaster. The protagonist wakes up with no memory of how they got there. Folk horror,...
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Contra deserves said prestige treatment. I wrote a sci-fi action script inspired from that world. It also mines the same generation for nostalgia as the 2023 Super Mario movie did. The early games are...
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I'm currently developing an island on Fortnite that I plan to use as a virtual backlot for multiple films, including a mini series.
I'd love to see Left 4 Dead get the TV treatment Samantha Rivera. I always thought the infected and character dynamics could make for an incredible series!...
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Adaptations Part Six: games based on other media
Kind of an oddball category that pulls in ideas from all over.
Some of the works in question…
First: I Have no Mouth and I must Scream was originally a short story by Harlan Ellison. A bleak story that’s ever more relevant today as the main antagonist is...
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There‘s a new James Bond game that has gotten high praise.
This time it‘s not a shooter but a narrative-driven action adventure.
This blends the lines between game, visua...
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Interesting. I have mainly played the original Goldeneye but have enjoyed playthoughs of the other games on YouTube. First Looks quite interesting as yet another origin story for 007, thus it seems th...
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The best game adaptations like I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream actually deepen the original story by adding character and visualizing themes that prose could only suggest, while others are just inte...
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Samantha Rivera While tie-in games that release along side blockbusters are certainly "interactive marketing" and merch in a clever form, many of the 007 games are new stories. Kind of the like the St...
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Might be another big reach, might not be… but in any case, I’d argue it applies.
Just like there are likely parallel universes where we all exist as different versions of ourselves, so too do certain stories. Especially if the experience changes depending on how you choose to view it. Several of my s...
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That's fascinating. I don't think I have written anything that can be taken as such, however, I have seen a vlog that interprets the comedy films Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1993), The Room (2003), an...
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