4D Fiction

“Gamification is to game design as animated gifs are to film making.” ~Brian Clark @gmdclark /via @vpisteve

“I hate this word, but I love what it means: Edutainment” ~ @Ad1pat #TMTO

“When #Transmedia Storytelling moves out of the heads of Intellectuals & into the hands of Emotionals, it will have arrived” via @GaryPHayes

“mainstream is a myth. #transmedia by its nature, embraces the niche. so why can’t designers? use what you have & make it happen.” ~@imbri

“Some game-jackers are just trolls, but some are like Gollum; they can be channeled for good” ~@tonywalsh /via @_thacher

“People have forgotten how to tell a story. [There’s no] middle or end any more. [only] a beginning that never stops beginning” ~S.Spielberg

“The plot of a story should be somewhat simple. It is the characters who will make things complicated.” ~@samhiti #storytelling

At IGDA Summit, Jordan Weisman: “What’s the value of a good idea if it’s just sitting in your head?” Trans: MAKE COOL STUFF /via @jchutchins

“Humanity is starting to move away from passive rec… opting to ‘lean-in’, participate” #Storytelling in Games | IGN http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/115/1159020p1.html

“If I connect with a story it should have the common decency to connect with me too” ~@writerguygames #g4c2011 /via @NathanMaton

“Build a world larger than your characters” ~ @mikemonello #stx1

“Give people a story to tell.” ~ @mikemonello #stx1 #storytelling

“The more digital our lives become, the more tangible our stories needs to be” ~@mikemonello #stx1 #storytelling

Interactive multimedia isn’t #transmedia Nor is providing a complementary web-based multimedia experience to a tv show. #stx1

Thought: we don’t want to reach the point that people presume first that ‘bad things’ are fictional, not real #stx1 #ethics #Transmedia