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StoryForward Podcast Ep. 104: Resistance Radio

Campfire’s Steve Coulson chats with us about their Resistance Radio project for Amazon Studios’ The Man in the High Castle.

Yay, StoryForward Podcast is back with a new episode for 2017!

If you follow this Tumblr, then you’ve probably seen me post a bunch about Resistance Radio, the amazing story-driven campaign for Amazon Prime Video’s The Man in the High Castle, produced by my friends and former employers at Campfire. 

If you’ve been digging Campfire’s work, then you’ll definitely want to listen to this latest episode of the excellent StoryForward Podcast. In it, host and renowned experience designer Steve Peters chats with Campfire’s Creative Director Steve Coulson, who shares some exclusive, behind-the-scenes insights into the creative process that brought this project to life (including some details about a couple of secret, hidden goodies that audiences haven’t discovered yet.)

Transmedia Writing students, be sure to check this one out—Steve and Steve discuss several key concepts we’ll be exploring in class, so this is a great opportunity to experience some vivid illustrations of those ideas first-hand.

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As part of its transmedia campaign promoting Amazon’s alt-history series The Man in the High Castle, Campfire released the amazing resistanceradio.com last week (see previous posts here).

Well, another really cool part of the campaign involves actual, physical artifacts from the show’s fictional storyworld, which also were mailed out to a select group of lucky bloggers last week — check out this great unboxing video from Steve Peters, of the excellent StoryForward podcast (and also No Mimes Media, creators of the “10-minute ARG” Mime Academy, which we study in my class.)

By the way, Steve didn’t have the heart to fold a crease in the flier contained in this rare and highly coveted package (and I don’t blame him!) but if you’d like to see read the secret message it contains, you can see it here in one of “High Castle”’s tweets. (Fans of the old Mad Magazine back-cover fold-ins, especially, should enjoy this one.)

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Video of Foossa's David Colby Reed and Lee-Sean Huang at the StoryForward NYC Storytelling for Social Good panel in November with Ram Devineni, Andrea Phillips, and Dan Bigman.

Storytelling can have a powerful impact on the ways we see and interact with the world around us. From building awareness and inspiring change to leading political discourse and impacting the laws that both protect and exploit human rights across the globe. This event featured impactful socially charged stories from award-winning directors, producers, and writers whose projects have tackled such hard hitting issues as acid attacks on women in India, human rights, racial inequality, gang rape, and the effects of genocide on survivors in Rwanda.

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Back in the summer of 2004 an alternate reality game called ilovebees took the internet by storm. It was unlike anything I had ever seen before (or since, for that matter) and it wound up building a community that still feels like we were all part of something singular, co-storytellers in a uniquely involving storyline, each contributing to something real. A real shared experience between the players and the creators, as much as a fictional one between us and characters five hundred years in the future.

Frankly, it's hard to explain to anyone who wasn't involved at the time, and I won't try to deconstruct the event here. I'm posting this more as a peek into game design and the experience of constructing a massively-multiplayer narrative in real time.

Well, 2014 is the tenth anniversary and a group of the developers got together in Portland to look back on the creation of ilovebees and the impact it's had on the last ten years of viral marketing and art in the age of the internet. The recording of this panel is here, over at StoryForward, accompanied by a conveniently-compiled list of links to help you catch up on what all the fuss was about (or to push those feels if you were lucky enough to play along). 

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An early experiment in Twitter storytelling - Aliens reenactment "Barcamp Bughunt" May 2009

This came up in our discussion of Twitter storytelling on the latest edition of the Storyforward podcast. Back in 2009, I led a Barcamp session where a group of us used our Twitter accounts to re-enact a key sequence from the movie Aliens. Here's the coordinating document and the script.  Wow, a lot has happened in five years.

This is one of many of my early projects that are mostly lost to me, because Twitter's archival tools are not very robust if you're not a programmer or if you don't have the thousands and thousands of dollars to pay one of the services that have access to the full firehose.   

If there's anyone out there with full twitter archive access and an interest in helping me recover some of those lost projects, please reach out and let me know. 

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http://www.storyforwardpodcast.com/2013/05/035-the-center-cannot-hold-steve/

...this episode of story forward. This new ARG project Cloud Chamber sounds pretty interesting, I'm definitely looking forward to check it out. It's a Danish project (go Scandinavians!) and apparently holds your place in the ARG so you can come and go as you please, without being locked into the typical ARG schedule which forces you to participate when it's going on.

Also a reminder to myself to get involved in DIYDays the next time it rolls around. #badartist

I always enjoy listening to this podcast—it always gets my brain going to think about new project possibilities!