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1. TRANSMEDIA
GAMING
Jocelyn Antl
Social Media Mashup Fall 13’
Final Project

2. What Is Transmedia Gaming?
Transmedia Gaming is the phenomenon of
console gaming evolving into a more
connected experience.
○ This does not mean that gaming is no longer taking
place on game consoles; it means that gaming is
now using other forms of media and technology to
better engage the audience.

3. The Beginning
Types of Transmedia Gaming: The Beginning
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Console Multiplayer Gaming
○ What started as just playing Mario Kart with 2 or 3 of your friends on
your Gamecube, or split screen racing on your Xbox, has now been
multiplied to having several hundred of your friends, and strangers
alike occupy a single online server.
MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game)
○ With World of Warcraft being one of the oldest and most successful
MMO’s, it may not be as graphically ahead as console gaming, but it’
s sense of community is what a lot of developers are now using as an
example of future gaming.

5. THE PRESENT
Types of Transmedia Gaming: The Present
● Xbox Kinect & Playstation Move
○ Ditch the controller and use your body to navigate
through a game instead. Aimed to become more
submerged within a game.
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Many gamers argue this isn’t necessary, and that with a
strong engaging storyline, the ability to create and mold
your own character (RPGs), is enough to immerse yourself
within a game.

8. The Present Cont.
Types of Transmedia Gaming: The Present
● Mobile Games
○ With the advancement of smartphone
technology, the graphics and quality of
gameplay of mobile games have some looking
identical, or even better than console games!
● Social Media Gaming
○ With the rise of social media, you can find that
consumers are spending a lot of time playing

9. Mobile Games
Facebook Games

10. The Present Cont.
Types of Transmedia Gaming: The Present
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Walkthroughs
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One of the most interesting things that has come out of Transmedia Gaming is
consumer created game walkthroughs.
● Gamers have taken game guides into their own hands by either typing
out or uploading videos on the internet of their own gameplay. So, if
you’re stuck on a quest, chances are, someone uploaded a video on
Youtube of how to get through it successfully.
● Link: http://www.ign.com/wikis
Live Streams
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Another development that has grown out of Transmedia Gaming is live streams.
Any and all gaming events- whether it is corporately large like E3 (Electronic
Entertainment Expo), or smaller, local and geared towards specific games like
Fighting Game Tournaments, chances are, someone is streaming it live online.
Twitch.tv and MLG.tv are a few streams you can watch a varity of gaming streams.

11. The Future
Types of Transmedia Gaming: The Future
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Xbox One
■ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP4E3xNU9pU
Playstation 4
■ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiLEYegpOP8
Steam Box
■ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TxKv78IZDQ
PC Gaming
■ Elder Scrolls Online

13. BUILDING A GAMING COMMUNITY
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With the ability to “mash up” the ways in which we engage in gaming,
whether that be through tweeting or instagramming screenshots of our
game play, or creating and uploading game reviews on Youtube, this
interconnectivity and engagement with others on the internet has jump
started a large online community.
Not only has this built strong communities, friendships and given us our
own ability to all be journalists, the direction gaming is going in has also
opened new pathways whether that be career oriented or not, to engage
on deeper levels with each other, and with the content itself, making
gaming as we know, never the same again.