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WWO at the Digital TV conference

October 6, 2007 in conference, future history, public media, Research, simulation, videogame | Leave a comment

IPTV DTV logoIowa Public Television hosts a premier event for TV and video production, technical and education professionals, and this year they invited WWO Creative Director Ken Eklund to speak about crowd-sourced storytelling. Listen to the MP3, or go here and scroll down to Tuesday, Oct. 2, 9:30 am to view his snappy presentation.

It was the world's first serious alternate reality game, a cooperative pre-imagining of a global oil crisis. Over 1900 players collaborated in May 2007 to chronicle the oil crisis with their own personal blog posts, videos, images and voicemails. The game ended after simulating the first 32 weeks of the oil shock, but its effects continue, as game designers analyze its unique gameplay and we all watch the continuing drama with global oil prices and supply.

THE CLASSICS

How we got into the 2008 oil crisis

Offshore drilling vs. men in speedboats

Bush in Saudi Arabia: the bank owns us

Oil crisis: internal truth vs. external truth

"Making the world a better place"

The future of alternate reality games

The Petrol War, 2000

"The future is getting closer" (WWO lesson plans)

The subprime energy crisis

The tragedy of lower oil prices