{"id":6205,"date":"2014-12-17T11:22:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T18:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6205"},"modified":"2014-12-28T11:31:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T18:31:52","slug":"6205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/17\/6205\/","title":{"rendered":"ENDGAME: A fascinating project in collective storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2014\/12\/17\/googles-niantic-labs-embarks-on-a-giant-interactive-transmedia-project-with-novelist-james-frey\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from VentureBeat<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Google\u2019s Niantic Labs embarks on a giant interactive transmedia project with controversial author James\u00a0Frey<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<a class=\"url fn\" style=\"color: #4479bd;\" title=\"Posts by Dean Takahashi\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/author\/dean-takahashi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Dean Takahashi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-single wp-post-image\" style=\"font-style: inherit;\" src=\"http:\/\/1u88jj3r4db2x4txp44yqfj1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/end-game-boomerang-780x386.jpg\" alt=\"Endgame boomerang\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" data-src=\"http:\/\/1u88jj3r4db2x4txp44yqfj1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/end-game-boomerang-780x386.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Endgame is going to be a fascinating project in collective storytelling. The project started as\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; color: #4479bd;\" href=\"http:\/\/thisisendgame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Endgame: The Calling<\/em><\/a>, a novel published in October from\u00a0best-selling (and controversial) author James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton. It is the first of three books.<\/p>\n<p>Before the second novel comes out, Google\u2019s Niantic Labs division\u00a0will launch\u00a0its Endgame mobile game. Much like its predecessor, the geo-location game\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; color: #4479bd;\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/tag\/ingress\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ingress<\/a>, Endgame is an alternate-reality game, set in real-world locations as the battlegrounds that 12 factions will fight over. Fans form their own factions based on the\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; color: #4479bd;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientsocieties.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ancient Societies<\/a>\u00a0in the<em>\u00a0Endgame<\/em>\u00a0novel. In the book,\u00a0societies compete with each other to be the one faction that survives the apocalypse. One of a cast of\u00a0teen characters leads each, and that individual has received training\u00a0for the moment when they will face their\u00a0tests.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s the interesting twist. The real-world players and factions affect the outcome of the story. In fact, Frey and Johnson-Shelton will weave the stories of the most active players into the second and third novels, said Jim Stewartson, a member of the Niantic Labs team, in an interview with GamesBeat.\u00a0Fox, meanwhile, is working on three movies based on the franchise. It\u2019s one of the ultimate \u201ctransmedia\u201d projects, or a single entertainment property that crosses multiple media.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2014\/12\/17\/googles-niantic-labs-embarks-on-a-giant-interactive-transmedia-project-with-novelist-james-frey\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at VentureBeat<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from VentureBeat Google\u2019s Niantic Labs embarks on a giant interactive transmedia project with controversial author James\u00a0Frey by\u00a0Dean Takahashi Endgame is going to be a fascinating project in collective storytelling. The project started as\u00a0Endgame: The Calling, a novel published in October from\u00a0best-selling (and controversial) author James Frey and Nils Johnson-Shelton. It is the first of three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}