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Storytelling, play and code

by Dan Hon

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Forget transmedia. Forget alternate and augmented realities. Forget multimedia magazines, tablets, phones and puzzling QR codes. Our challenge lies in figuring out the full-stack of entertainment, designed from the bottom right to the very top: for phones, physical objects—part of the Internet of things or otherwise—tablets and conventional computing devices, where art, code and design mesh together perfectly with directorial vision.

These teams producing our next generation of entertainment are right at the heart of Steve Jobs’ placing of Apple at the intersection of liberal arts and technology. Where did they come from, how are they evolving entertainment and how are they making storytelling, play, code and technology sing?

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Storytelling, play and codeThe full stack(s) of entertainment.

Zeroth, context.

First, storytelling.

The hard way.

The easier way.

Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic, http://bit.ly/thetwomayors

Second, play.

Third, code.

“In the 1980’s the BBC not only broadcastprogramming for kids about coding, but (in partnership with Acorn) shipped over amillion BBC Micro computers into schools and homes.” Eric Schmidt, http://bit.ly/schmidtaggart

The Valiant Turtle, http://bit.ly/bbcturtle

To make art with technology, one does notuse it as a tool; one must understand it as amaterial. Technology is not always a tool, an engineering substrate; it can be something to mould, to shape, to sculpt with. Tom Armitage, http://bit.ly/techmaterial

The stacks.

First, a reprise.

EVERYTHINGTHE NETWORKTOUCHESBY TOM COATES

The story so far.

Old Spice, Wieden+Kennedy

Suwappu, BERG/DENTSU

Twit4Dead, Tom Armitage, http://bit.ly/twit4dead

The Mongoliad, Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear et al

Year Zero, Nine Inch Nails

Glitch, Tiny Speck

This is not the future I was promised.

http://bopressminiaturebooks.com/

Some stacks.

Easy ﬁrst.

Now hard.

Facebook andGoogle+

But none of these feel like stacks.

And we don’t haveauthoring tools, either.

We only have ourselves to blame.

It’s all just ones and zeroes down here.

http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/win31

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/07/mac-os-x-lion-a-visual- introduction.ars

What we lost.

Where are our cues?

This is not a metadata problem.This is a design/content/code problem.

Russell Davies, http://bit.ly/inourcan

And ﬁnally.

“These are like ships passing in the night.One of the greatest achievements at Pixar was that we brought these two cultures together and got them working side by side.” Steve Jobs, http://dthin.gs/SJatD1

The end. dan.hon@wk.com