The Conspiracy For Good wins to BANFF Awards
The 2011 Banff World Media Festival was hosted at the beautiful Fairmont Springs in Canada every year. On June 15, 2011, CFG was up against nominees from all over the world in interactive entertainment.
The project helped build several libraries in Zambia, and stock them with 10 000 books, as well as give 50 girls scholarships. The app for the project was downloaded over 900 000 times.
Conspiracy For Good nominated for awards
Conspiracy For Good that was played last summer in the streets of London, and before that all around the world online and with mobile phones, is nominated for some of the top prizes in interactive media.
The media festival South By Southwest (SXSW) gives out awards every year for interactive works, and Conspiracy For Good has been nominated in the mobile category. Cool! SXSW takes place in Austin, TX, March 11.-20., and the award gala will be March 15th.
The last time The Company P won an International Interactive Emmy was a few years ago with Sanningen om Marika at MIPTV in Emmy. That award was for Best Interactive Tv Service. Now we’re nominated for the same award again. The name is no the Interactive Digital Emmy, though, and the category Digital Fiction. The lightning-winged Emmy goddess might end up in our hands on April 4th in Cannes.
Exciting! 🙂
PS. If you missed Conspiracy For Good, here’s a great video that explains the whole giant of an experience in a few minutes.
The Golden Dragon!
The main event of the roleplaying year, Ropecon, is just behind us. For seven years this is where the lifetime award Golden Dragon has been given to roleplaying luminaries, people whose games I’ve played as a kid, whose stores I’ve frequented and whose magazines I’ve read. In other words, I have quite alot of respect for these Grand Old Men of Finnish roleplaying.
Therefore I was both proud and humbled to receive the same recognition. In my thank you speech I was very touched but managed to speak for the future of the hobby.
A summary of the Finnish press release:
Mike Pohjola has been influential in the field since the mid 90s. His live roleplaying games have been played in cultural centers and art galleries. His publications include the roleplaying games Myrskyn aika (2003), Star Wreck Roleplaying Game (2006), and Tähti (2007). In addition Pohjola has published Sanaleikkikirja (2008), and the YA novel Kadonneet kyyneleet (2008).
Pohjola is also a founding member in The Company P, that won the International Emmy for Best Interactive Tv Service in 2008 for Sanningen om Marika. Right now he’s working on The Conspiracy For Good mega-project that premiered last Saturday in London. The Nokia-sponsored Conspiracy For Good is a project that combines participatory storytelling and gaming and lets players search clues with new mobile technology to progress in the story and help charities. The creative visionary of the project is Tim Kring, the showrunner of the tv show Heroes.
Thank you so much! It’s a really great feeling to be recognized by your own people in such a way.
The story of the Conspiracy For Good has begun…
The Conspiracy For Good is a combination of participatory storytelling, gaming and attempt to support real-life NGOs and charities. The story has now begun in earnest, so you can go check out the latest videos on the blog daily. Our story begins in Zambia:
Conspiracy For Goodin website has lots more videos, discussions and riddles… What is Blackwell Briggs doing in Zambia and can we stop it? Where are Missä David, Nadirah, and Ann Marie now?
Recapping the Conspiracy for Good
Here’s a three-minute recap of the Conspiracy for Good so far. Join the movement, become a nonmember! Remember, this is just the beginning…
The Conspiracy for Good
What is this I’m Not a Member thing? It’s all to do with The company P’s, Tim “Heroes” Kring’s and Nokia’s new game/media/activism project, where we want to create a conspiracy for good. It’s a balancing force to such well-known villains as the mega-corporation Blackwell Briggs. Tim Kring explains the concept:
Join The Conspiracy for Good.
The Company P now works with Tim Kring
The Company P is not resting on its laurels after Dollplay with Joss Whedon, but moving forwards. Tim Kring and The Company P are joining up to create the massively participatory experience TEVA. The first part is launching in the UK.
It’s still super secret, but there’s slightly more information on the P blog…
Beyond the World 