Best Concepts of the Year
Tuesday, 3rd May 2005 Download video (wmv) The final session of the Games and Storytelling 04-05 sums up on the best concepts of the year. The session includes presentations of game concepts developed in the Story Game Workshops by Katie Salen and Ernest W. Adams, and point-of-views (POV!s) by the Finnish experts and designers on the most interesting themes of the Games and Storytelling lecture series. Give me a 5! 17:15 Opening by Mika Tuomola, Artistic director, Crucible Studio 17:25 The Faith is a 3rd person action adventure game, taking place in an alternated version of today. In this world, gods need people to believe in them to be powerful. The Church and Hell have a monopoly on the world's faith. Powerless gods of forgotten pantheons mingle with humans. The player takes the role of Loki, a 'has been' God who is now a not too good professional gambler in Atlantic City. The objective of the game is to take Loki from being a 'has been' with no followers to gain a place in the modern world's belief system. Design team: Anne Parkkali, Fernando Herrera, Sophie Maurer, Teemu Kivikangas. 17:35 POV! by Aki Järvinen, Game researcher & designer, Veikkaus. 17:45 The Troll Island is an activating, physical mobile game for kids, involving outdoors activity in the historical surrounding of beautiful Suomenlinna Fortress Island. It utilizes novel mobile innovations like GPS location information, 3D audio soundscape and augmented reality game graphics, creating an immersive narrative gameplay about magical, invisible fairytale world. A world full of fairies, trolls and elves... Design team: Ciaran Harris, Outi Kotala, Ville Tikka, Sami Pekkola. More information and concept document: http://www.iki.fi/kotala/trollisland/ 17:55 POV! by Frans Mäyrä, Research director, Hypermedia_Lab 18:05 Story Game Katie Salen's workshop results introduced by Aki Järvinen. 18:15 Revolver Round, Jani Karlsson, Senior Manager, N-Gage Experience & Lasse Seppänen, Head of Production, Sumea Interactive, interviewed by Mika Tuomola & Sonja Kangas, Researcher, VTT Media. http://koti.welho.com/lseppane/ 18:30 Audience discussion 19:00 Wine and snacks and mindless natter ;) |