Artistic Development
| Focal Character |
Plot Development |
Press Conference Subject |
Encounter with a Super-Being |
Web sites |
Pervasive Games |
Other Media |
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| Weeks 0 | Raia D Light | Generate interest: The mayor is accidentally messing things up. |
~ | ~ | Noumena City Web site starts going strange. Fringe Festival site. Noumena Wiki and discussion boards start. |
~ | -Smartphone kit download -Festival guide -Posters -QR Codes |
| Week 1 | Premon | Hook & layout (who & what): The super-beings turn up. |
The coming of the super-beings. | Premon slays people with inspiration and visions of the future. | Arts House Web site holds clues. | -Checkpoint -Date with a soft toy. |
-Answering machine messages -RFIDs -Street performers |
| Week 2 | Lady Astrarche | Up the stakes (why care): Things get worse |
Panic and cover up. | Lady Astrarche controls coincidences and receives a free glass of wine. | Various artist Web sites start holding clues. | Poetry & Police Officers | -Artifacts -YouTube |
| Week 3 | Kroma | Pay off: -Confrontation -Return to the realm of Numenosity. |
-Urgency -Wrap up |
? | Sponsor Web sites? | Mesh network flash mob | -SYN FM -Tor |
The "Weeks 0" are for pre-publicity in order to generate interest in particpation. We will need to organise straight publicity as well as in-game publicity.
Plot Points
What if you didn't own rights to your own memories?
What if a corporation found a way to make you forget every creative work you had ever experienced with a product known as Lethe-il? All you could remember are titles, artists, and how you felt about them.
What if this same corporation would only allow their chosen artists to remember with a product known as Mnemosyme?
"Do you remember this song?" will be regularly asked throughout the game. Pieces of a song will be given to game players each week. At the end of the festival all pieces can be put together to form a single song. That song will be performed at the closing party.
Contact
<muse@glasswings.com.au>