Thanks to FLINT DILLE for being such an excellent guest speaker. Flint shared his vast experience as a Producer, Screenwriter, Game Designer and now, Alternate Reality Game (ARG) Producer. Some notes:
• Reality is becoming more game-like all the time! Flint views the mediasphere as one huge graphic equalizer of media whereby elements such as game, music, story, character, mobility are all tuned.
• Read Kieth Richards Autobiography and how the Stones experimented and just did it! The barriers are now low.
• It is no a better time than ever to experiment with media and just go and produce, experiment, have fun, release, repeat!
• TRANSMEDIA is really the new contextualization of “FRANCHISE”. It is a broad term that has come to mean distilling the essence of a property for adaptation across all platforms. It includes prequels, sequels, spin-offs, Toys. Flint was engaged to reinvigorate Hasbro’s Tansformers with the original animated series he created as one of his earliest jobs.
• Flint teamed up with Gary Gygax, the Co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, the world’s first MMORPG. It was pure role-playing and Flint learned the ethos of a shared adventure. This experience was a key influence for him. Mr. Gygax passed in 2008 at age 69. He arguably started a multi-billion dollar industry.
• Flint is working on Starship Troopers 4
• Flint thinks that essentially game-like entertainment has already eclipsed movies. This was exemplified when AVATAR’s release was moved over for CALL OF DUTY MODERN WARFARE’s release.
• Flint is teaching the first ARG courser at UCLA. There are currently no examples of a “Hit” ARG, but there will be! Don’t discount the influence of hard core fans to whome past ARGs may have been targeted. Although small in reletive numbers, great in influence. Flint views their impact like an epidemiologist looks at a virus. Sphere: Related Content
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