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Brooke Thompson is a freelance experience designer specializing in alternate reality gaming, transmedia storytelling, and real world play. A pioneer in the field, she has nearly ten years experience that includes a number of award-winning projects.

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Types of Transmedia: Franchise, Marketing, & Native

The other day, BoingBoing guestblogger Chris Arkenberg posted an interview with Behnam Karbassi of No Mimes Media. It’s a good read, highly recommended, but what jumped out at me was a breakdown of three different types of transmedia: franchise, marketing, and native. There is often much debate and confusion over what’s what in the world [...]

Alternate Reality *Gaming*?

Recently, I had the pleasure of talking to fellow ARG freak, Jackie Kerr, about whether or not ARGs were games. It’s an interesting question and I understand why people would doubt that or think that the genre was misnamed. Not only is the genre mantra “This is not a game”, but so many of us [...]

Brooke ThompsonHi! I'm an experience designer specializing in transmedia storytelling & alternate reality gaming. If you want to know more about that, check out my bio or portfolio. I'm more likely to speak in 140 characters or less than I am to write out a full blog post, so if you're interested in my thoughts, you might want to follow me on twitter.

Featured Projects

  • ARGFest
  • Eldritch Errors
  • Project Abraham
  • Why So Serious
  • Board 2 Street

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