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It’s a sunny sunday so I will share my idea rapidly and kick off to photosynthesize.
Techiteasy is a community blog so we tend to interact, ping pong ideas etc. Kari was sharing some thoughts about gaming experiences, Vincent some others on blogging about books and I was trying how to o’reillishly “Learn Japanese in 24 hours” to get a glance of some Japanese neo authors who write novels on mobile phones, using the rules and language of mobile communication.
Interaction is an effort to extend your actions to enter another domain, act and receive action. In Gaming you choose among a list of actions on a specific domain. When you blog about books you do exactly the same but with ideas in the place of actions.
These two forms of interaction are both quite:
- Technically complicated (developing the book/game, mastering the actions/ideas, add your input).
- Imprisoned in a specific domain. (Kari cannot play the books Vincent is blogging about even if he had Windows)
Rin from Kokura (a primitive greek way of naming people that are distant but important) removed some bricks from my thought wall. Mostly, in terms of her functional proposition. (24 hours haven’t lapsed yet to understand Japanese)
Writing books on your mobile, much resembles coding, you have to keep it simple and efficient.
A hidden catch is that you can probably make it extensible and platform-independed.
Result? If you extend the functional proposition, you can possibly write a mini novel that will be playable for other users on other media.
…and pass from gaming, to authoring, to blogging for both…
How to extend the functional proposition? Starting from basic technical standardization:
XML will-it be sufficient enough to create scenery taxonomies, character ontologies and plot relationships?
XAL Extensible Authoring Language, does it exist?
Throw me the apples
Georgia
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Hey Georgia. Well, as usual, your particular style of writing covers some deeper issues. I tend to think about it in two ways: one, how can information be distributed in new and innovative ways, of which yours is one example?
And two, how can we process these new and innovative ways best? I’ll publish some thoughts about this on tech it easy in a few days.
Regarding the open standard, I find that Twitter et. al, which we discussed many times on this blog, does address this idea of a cross-mobile-PC-internet-platform quite well. As I already sent you via mail, 140novel is a twitter-channel that illustrates what a book or a story would look like in that format. And I’m sure there’s other ones.
While it certainly looks interesting, I’m not sure how practical it is from either a production- or consumption-perspective.
Vincent you got it very right on the first point: Texts are currently mostly serial (ok you can skip pages, but it’s a quite random choice).
Serial texts can be risky: (Quoting from Emil Salimov this Saturday) “in a Russian play the writer has the authority to freeze the most critical part of a battle to describe the horse’s hair one by one, the dirt on the soldiers’ suits and the love affairs of the commander. The desperate reader has to go through all this information or jump some pages to get away with the heart attack by the stress he accumulated reading about the green cloth, with thick spots of bravehearted men blood shining under the frivolous siberian sun, just as the tears of his beloved Olympiada Samsanovna shined on her cheeks the day he left St Petersburg on the lavishly decorated chariot, doted with fine stones that came directly from the mines of the Irktschouk’s wild mountains….
A pair of glasses
If I could read this text as a painting, spot the ontology I fancy and forget about the other horses and gallons I would feel a little bit more comfortable with this bulky last paragraph.
Even better if I were able to play with it and move around the horses.
A term that makes some sense but that’s all
“transmedia entertainment”
I think the mobilephone books are a good future-archaic language model : they seem to be so economical that you may only have to add the cases to get your home made game-novel. (I still don’t know any Japanese)
Twitter seems more focused on the participatory and cross platform aspect, I like the experiment.
Still in the dark about the tools that are used to craft the transmedia contents (create the XML, SMIL, WAP or other), and thus no idea if this is something that is easily produced and handled. Nada. Blanc.
Can’t wait to read you!
There is a lecture on the issue, across the atlantic : CMS Research Fair 2008