Session: Storytelling, Games, and the Real World: Weaving it all Together

Presenters: Adrian Hon and Alex Macmillan, Six to Start
Time: 15:30 – 16:30, Friday 30 September

We’ll discuss the lessons we’ve learned from developing mobile and online games for people like the BBC and Death Cab for Cutie, and also our own original games and storytelling experiences using the mobile web and iPhone.

Specifically: how willing are people to move around and change their habits for a game? What kinds of stories work best for mobile and devices and attention spans? And what do we think is coming next?

Adrian Hon is co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at Six to Start, specialising in creating new forms of storytelling through ARGs, transmedia, or mobile and web-based games. Clients have included Disney, the BBC, Channel 4, and Penguin, and Six to Start has won multiple awards including Best of Show at SXSW. He also writes about technology for The Telegraph, is writing a Kickstarter-funded book and blog called A History of the Future in 100 Objects, co-organises the Hive Mind Challenge and is the founder of Transmedia London.

Alex is a hacking enthusiast, multitool-carrying technician, and Electronics and Computer Science graduate. While Alex’s successes to date are chiefly academic (including two published papers and the IEC William L Everitt Student Award of Excellence in 2009), an unshakable passion for connecting people by telling stories with technology has brought Alex to Six to Start.
As technical manager for over fifteen shows and counting, Alex has toured productions to theatres in New York, Florida and the West End. Alex received the NSDF Award for Technical Achievement in Sound in 2006. When not working behind the curtain, Alex enjoys drinking, writing dystopian fiction and trains (preferably all three at the same time).