Christy's Corner of the Universe

New Publication: Hand Made High Tech

christy — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:51:01 +0000

In 2011, I was commissioned by if:book Australia to write an article on transmedia writing. The article, ‘Do You Have a Big Stick?’, has now been published in their first ebook: Hand Made High Tech, along with a great collections of essays on writing. Throughout 2011, if:book Australia commissioned essays from ten Australian writers on the [...]

Damn, this is what plagiarism looks like.

christy — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:33:05 +0000

Latest update: 18th Nov 2011: The CEO of InaGlobal, François Quinton, contacted me last week to let me know he will be investigating my complaint. He contacted me yesterday to let me know that unfortunately my complaint was correct. They took the article down on Monday. I’m contacted François, thanking him for following this up and [...]

2011 World Tour: Sweden, The Netherlands, Canada & USA :)

christy — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:02:45 +0000

The only international travel I’ve agreed to in the last year has been the Transmedia International Masterclass in Marseille. That was a great experience not just because of the location, but because it was the first transmedia event I had been to that was primarily directed to emerging game developers. It was lots of fun [...]

CFP: Crossmedia Innovations: Texts, Markets, Institutions, Education

christy — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 04:22:36 +0000

I often get invites to be a part of books on trans/cross-media, but rarely have the time to be a part of them. When the call for papers is open, I share the details. So here is one for the scholars out there: CALL FOR PAPERS Edited book: “Crossmedia Innovations: Texts, Markets, Institutions, Education” Editors: Dr. Indrek Ibrus [...]

Emerging Writers’ Festival – Special Brisbane Digital Writers event

christy — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 04:07:02 +0000

I had a great time when I spoke at this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival, and now I’m excited to say that I’ll be a part of their special Digital Writers event happening in Brisbane. On 15 October, the Emerging Writers’ Festival want to run a mini-conference called Digital Writers: taking your words online. The event will [...]

Avoiding Crap Game Design panel audio

christy — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:47:05 +0000

In my last post I announced a panel I curated for the Freeplay Independent Gaming Festival: How Every Little Decision Can Bring You Closer To or Further Away from Creating Crap A (self-described) “handsome and debonaire stranger” said to me the best way to avoid creating dull projects is “don’t work for shit companies” and “only [...]

Freeplay panel: Avoiding Crap Design & Process Decisions in Games

christy — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:30:36 +0000

For the next Australian independent gaming festival, Freeplay, I’m curating a panel on gaming decisions: How Every Little Decision Can Bring You Closer To or Further Away from Creating Crap “A (self-described) “handsome and debonaire stranger” said to me the best way to avoid creating dull projects is “don’t work for shit companies” and “only go indie [...]

Announcing my first Universe Creation 101 “playful story”!

christy — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:49:22 +0000

Hello everyone! As many of you are aware, for the past few years I’ve been concentrating on two things: finishing my PhD (which I submitted in 2009), and working on great projects conceived by other people. I’ve conceived, designed and executed some small alternate reality games, but all the major projects were work for other people. [...]

Update: UC101, Litopia, Australia Council, Crossover, TMV, IGDAM, etc (cross-posting)

christy — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 02:37:44 +0000

I’ve been a BAD blogger! It has been so long since my last update I need to list a few things I have been doing. I’ll list them in order of the most recent and upcoming, to the oldest (but still interesting!). The most exciting news for me is the forthcoming announcement of my own [...]

The Messages We Send Each Other

christy — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:06:58 +0000

As most of you would be aware, on the announcement of the Storyworld Conference & Expo Advisory Board, Andrea Phillips published a post highlighting “sexism”. It’s a list I wouldn’t disagree with on other grounds — in fact, it’s a pretty great list. There’s certainly a lot of star power represented there. On the other hand… the teams [...]