As a Bristol + Bath Creative R+D prototype team, we explored the future of immersive horror for their Amplified Publishing programme.

This was funded by the Creative Industries Clusters programme managed by the Arts & Humanities Research Council as part of the Industrial Strategy

During this project we created three prototypes to explore the use of:
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- Intelligent design
- New forms of storytelling
- Web3 technologies

We discovered two needs for immersive horror producers:
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1: To quickly iterate meaningful interactions
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2: The desire for original, robust monsters

So we ended up creating:
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1: A Monster Design toolkit which is a framework that can be used during design sessions
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2: A Stormjam workshopping format, this is a fusion of video game and theatre devising techniques that don’t require any budget and gets makers testing their interactions

Both the Monster Design Toolkit and Stormjam are live sessions that we run for ourselves to create work but also is something we have been using for other immersive companies

We played with new forms of storytelling by prototyping a video game and film that will connect to a live event using Web3 technologies

This led to building the foundations of 'The Nightmare Market', a hybrid experience that incorporates Web3 technologies within a live show

BLOCKCHAIN WEBSITE AND AUTOMATED NFT GENERATION DEVELOPED BY DIGITAL MASSIVE AND STORMJAR

Special thanks to Ossian Whiley