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Entries Tagged as 'Online Worlds'

PLAYSTATION: Backstage with ‘Guitar Hero’
February 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Online Worlds, Playstation

Project Overview: Creative directing a 3-D virtual world to tie into Activision’s mega popular ‘Guitar Hero’ franchise within Playstation Home.
Coming with the creative for this space last year was a pretty exciting proposition. Guitar Hero is one of the few major gaming franchises that doesn’t revolve around a super soldier blasting stuff in a [...]

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PLAYSTATION: ‘Far Cry 2′ launches in Home
October 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Online Worlds, Playstation

Project Overview: Creating unique war torn virtual spaces and games to tie-in with Ubisoft’s new ‘Far Cry 2′ game in the virtual world of Playstation Home.
Creating this space was a pretty long and evolving process that went through quite a few iterations and different hands on its way to release. Happily though, I think [...]

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DIY Days panel in SF – Topic: The Art & Science of Crowdsourcing
August 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Alternate Reality Experiences, Online Worlds, Social Media Campaigns, Viral videos

UPDATE: Video of the panel (that’s me on the far right of the frame ):
DIY DAYS SF – The Art and Science of Crowdsourcing

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I’ll be part of a panel “The Art & Science of Crowdsourcing” at DIY Days this Sunday.
Lance Weiler, the film director behind The Last Broadcast and Head Trauma, has organized an [...]

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Hands on with some of our Playstation Home lobbies
August 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Online Worlds, Playstation

During development of Playstation Home, our company has created some pretty amazing experiences in this exciting new entertainment medium. I was lucky enough to play a creative director role in all three of the spaces on display in this video from Game Trailers, the main Home Square (US), Warhawk, and Uncharted which was my [...]

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Want to join the Playstation Home Beta? Here’s how…
August 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Online Worlds, Playstation

Jack Buser, the Director of Playstation home posted this message to let those of you curious to check out Home take a peek early. Obviously we’re all very excited to share it with you and thrilled to see some of our work on display at this early stage.

Today we’re announcing the expansion of [...]

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Innovator, virtual worlds pioneer, bestselling author, and my professor: Randy Pausch 1960-2008
July 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Online Worlds

Several current MoU employees and alumni including myself, Lauren Lamonica, and Adrian Herbez studied “Building Virtual Worlds” and did research work and independent studies for Stage 3 under Randy Pausch at Carnegie-Mellon University. Though he’s now famous for his celebrated speech and autobiographical bestseller “The Last Lecture” about his battle with cancer, he should [...]

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Our work on Playstation Home Showcased at E3
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Online Worlds, Playstation

As a Creative Director at Millions of Us, I’ve had the opportunity to work on some really amazing and exciting projects. From what some have already figured out, and as reported by Virtual Worlds News in March, our company, has been working to create spaces for Playstation Home the last several months. [...]

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Google unveils a “Lively” new experience
July 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Online Worlds

This is one of those highly top secret projects I’ve been dying to tell people about, but had to remain absolutely silent about until launch. Well, as of Wednesday last week the cat is out of the bag and all over the press. Google entered the virtual world social space and we were [...]

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Bringing CNN’s I-Report project to report on the news from a virtual world
November 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Online Worlds

This is a project I produced recently that took a rather interesting approach to virtual worlds. Rather than explain it, I think CNN’s article probably does a better job reporting on it than I could (hopefully because that is their job):
CNN enters the virtual world of Second Life
November 12, 2007 — Updated 1649 GMT [...]

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Winning the LACP Spotlight award for WWE campaign
October 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Alternate Reality Experiences, Online Worlds

Winning awards is always neat, and this project was especially fun and thrilling. We brought World Wrestling Entertainment into Gaia Online with an alternate reality experience like no other… Kind of a celebrity meet and greet that turned into a secretly pre-planned chaotic disaster. Like wrestling itself. Hard to define but here’s [...]

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