{"id":55,"date":"2011-06-09T04:51:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T04:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivetagr.org\/blog\/?page_id=55"},"modified":"2023-09-22T20:30:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T20:30:58","slug":"the-gameplay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ivetagr.org\/gamevet\/the-gameplay\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmedia Gameplay"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Why transmedia and gameplay<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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I want to start this page (it is a long one but at the end you get your reward because while you read you are playing the game) by giving you a couple of standard definitions about \u201ctransmedia\u201d and \u201cgameplay\u201d both extracted from wikipedia. To illustrate the meaning of these words about a very fast evolving media, in 6 months there will be more new applications around for sure, I will publish 3 videos that I found on the net. The purpose of these videos and definitions is so that you understand there is no way back, the world has changed and you cannot teach anything without using these media in a crossed platform concept, your students are there talking, publishing, adapting and creating content as they never did before. They speak a new language that you are forced to learn if you want to communicate with them. The amount of information is so big that they use their friends to filter it and they create communities around subjects of common interest. They mobilize information that is transformed in real time. Businesses understood this so they produce activities, games, and advertisements, using these kinds of media; <\/em> on Facebook I publish video examples of this.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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There is another fact:
Tribes of talented students who are connected, mutually trust and support one another are in a position to create a movement, to provide items of value, to move ideas forward faster than any individual ever could. They can create emotional maps and express learning content from a different perspective making the content viral at the speed of light.
Teachers are able to write stories and to embed what they teach into these stories, but to produce and develop the game requires other skills that unfortunately they don\u2019t have, training must be provided in a practical way, on top of this there is a serious lack of soft & hard ware (available to them) on new devices e.g. smartphones and this contributes to preventing them from moving ahead and changing things. They need to create teams they need to work closely with their students in developing new learning methodologies. They already know there is a more informal way of learning than formal which means VET systems without various and is always on anyplace and anytime.
If the game and media industry involves hundreds of people in developing one single product and the people involved have expertise in something relevant for its production, why do we expect teachers to produce a whole game on their own?<\/p>

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In 2003, then MIT media studies professor, Henry Jenkins<\/a> used the term in his Technology Review<\/em> article, “Transmedia Storytelling,” where he reflected Kinder’s assumption, via analysis of mass-market entertainment, that the coordinated use of storytelling across platforms can make the characters more compelling.[3]<\/a><\/sup> Under the mentorship of Kinder, Stephen Dinehart<\/a>, used transmedia storytelling as a development methodology. In his 2006 USC School of Cinematic Arts<\/a> graduate thesis, “Transmedial Play” he created a model for transmedia story development, transmedial play<\/em> and the viewer\/user\/player<\/em> (VUP). In the paper he relates transmedia storytelling to Richard Wagner<\/a>‘s concept of Gesamtkunstwerk<\/a> (“the total artwork”).[4]<\/a><\/sup> Dinehart goes on to suggest that unlike crossmedia<\/a> projects of the past, in which intellectual properties cross media divides to maximize merchandising, “true” transmedia is designed in preproduction with the intent of immersion rather than simply rehashing such properties in post-production for maximum return on investment.[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>

In his 2006 book Convergence Culture<\/a><\/em>,[1]<\/a><\/sup> Jenkins further describes transmedia storytelling as storytelling across multiple forms of media with each element making distinctive contributions to a fan’s understanding of the story world. By using different media formats, transmedia create “entrypoints” through which consumers can become immersed in a story world. The aim of this immersion is decentralized authorship, or transmedial play<\/a> as defined by Dinehart[6]<\/a><\/sup>. Transmedia pioneer and producer Jeff Gomez<\/a> defines it as “the art of conveying messages themes or storylines to mass audiences through the artful and well planned use of multiple media platforms.”[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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