Sunday, June 30, 2013

SEASONS

Seasons is an enchanting little flash story thing (you can't exactly call it a game) where you steer Thomas - a sort of egg-man on a unicycle - through various pastoral, surreal scenes. Don't hurry through the environments. It's worth it to take your time pedaling around and seeing what Thomas discovers.

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Saturday, June 22, 2013

The KING KONG stage musical doesn't look like what you'd expect



When I heard a King Kong stage musical was on the way, I expected something heavy on spectacle and camp. But this promo clip, featuring Esther Hannaford's performance of the haunting song Full Moon Lullaby, is momentous but also melancholy, capturing the tragedy at the heart of the story. I'm impressed.  

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Friday, June 7, 2013

THE BARSTOW BONES INTERACTIVE AUDIO GAME





I recently collaborated with my dad to produce THE BARSTOW BONES INTERACTIVE AUDIO GAME, a new kind of YouTube annotation game based on my dad's new mystery novel Barstow Bones. The game is produced in the pulpy style of an old-time radio thriller. As you listen to the story you make choices that determine the destiny of Tommy, a young Asian American trying to drive across the California desert not long after Pearl Harbor.

The road ahead is dangerous, so choose carefully.

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