Newish Media focuses on projects that exploit unique aspects of digital games and creative social networks to create unique mixed media events and products. Newish Media brings together young designers and researchers to create unique games for unexpected places. Newish Media adapt simple mobile and web technologies to host complex location-based games for multiple museums and city parks, experiment with public installations, develop village simulators for urban developers, produce game authoring tools for schools as well as provided training for local artists and teachers.

some recent works that Newish Media members have completed:

1. A Location Based Game Event scootgame.com supported by multiple community and museum orgs. SCOOT is an episodic ARG game that can appear anywhere, anytime!
2. Mobile events public authoring tool ciphercities.comfunded by ACID
3. Mobile events composition tool for schools milkit.com.au funded by ACID
4. alternative input console games exhibited with the SCOOT events are designed in collaboration with undergraduate students at the Queensland University of Technology
5. Farm It Right simulation interface. Funded by the Bradford University, UK. To experiment and reflect on Nordic farming techniques in the 7th century.
6. SCAPE - the Urban Village Simulation Game

email Deb Polson with any questions - deb@newishmedia.com

We are looking for new opportunities…

http://www.newishmedia.com/deb/

Newish Media are sponsors for the Interactive Entertainment Conference hosted in Brisbane Australia in December 2008.

We have designed the web site and are involved as members of the Conference Committee.

http://ieconference.org/ie2008/

Katie Huges, Associate Dean at Victoria University - the latest location for SCOOT Game 2008

go to SCOOT GAME to see the latest website

SCOOT was run as an orientation event for new students of the Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development at both the Footscray Park and St Albans campuses. At various orientation sites students received a series of SCOOT Mission Cards that contained basic orientation codes. A task code was to be SMSed to the SCOOT HQ, after which they received a list of mission tasks that took them on a tour of the campus. Along the way they were challenged to collaborate and compete with other students to win SCOOT installation games.

The Synergy Project is a Helpmann Academy funded media arts
forum/workshop.

The forum will discuss interdisciplinary processes & creative exchange
within the discipline of media arts. Experts in their specific fields
will give talks about their practice & their experience working
collaboratively within a technological environment & how technology
might inform or hinder the artistic/collaborative process.

Speakers for the forum are; Ross Bencina (VIC); Matthew Gardiner (VIC);
Deb Polson (QLD); Fee Plumley (UK); Melinda Rackham (SA); Danielle
Wilde (VIC);

All enquires to Lynne Sanderson on Lynne.Sanderson@tafesasouth.org
All events are FREE - no booking required

SCOOT is now propagating the online worlds. You may of seen Junior and ShardUps Myspace profiles… and the Professors Wiki… and the You Tube Channel… now Facebook is the latest space to be invaded by the charms and chaos of Omega Carnegas Sideshow…

Facebook group - for updates on current events.

The lastest SCOOT event on Facebook

We are currently working on a Facebook application that invites members to publish their very own SCOOT comic strip!!! Stay tuned for the release!

Maybe we’ll see some of you in Melbourne on February 20 and 21 for the latest SCOOT adventure!!!

SCOOT’s next victim is the Victoria University. On Febuary 20 and 21 the Footscray Park and St Albans Campuses will be invaded by Omega Carnegas Carnival of Chaos.

All commencing students of the Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development will be called on to register as SCOOT AGENTS to seek out evidence and compete in challenges… as usual, the Agents will recieve and send mission information via an Agency SMS frequency!!!

This year the SCOOT game is undergoing a transformation to cater to a new demographic, venue and expected social interactions.

Our Faculty collaborators simply want SCOOT Game to give new students the opportunity to orient themselves to their new ‘digs’ in a new and fun way… but most importantly they desire all students to meet and interact in an effort to welcome them here as long term members of a dynamic community of students, staff and services.

SCOOT AGENCY Players web site
Victoria University - Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development

The SCOOT mixed reality game has successfully been hosted in Brisbane, Australia. This is the fourth major SCOOT event that Newish Media has designed and hosted across Australia.
SCOOT is a virtual world, a mobile game, a treasure hunt, a local exploration…

Brisbane Times Article
Channel Seven SCOOT story on the Queensland Weekender program

MORE INFO
Mobility Conference Presentation in Singapore Sept 12, 2007
Book Chapter (”Worlds in Play. International Perspectives on Digital Games Research”)

A big story on this years SCOOT event was on TV last night as part of the River Fire Special… The weekly lifestyle show, the Queensland weekender - Channel 7