Story World Explorers

Send us Fan Mail Embark with us and transmedia producer Davence Young as we explore the future of warfare and it’s hidden past in the B.E.A.R.S story world! Dragonesque Studios: https://davence.wixsite.com/dragonesque-studios B.E.A.R.S the Awakening takes place in the not-too-distant future where there is an arms race to create the super soldier. The year is 2120 and the world’s superpowers are actively trying to develop bio-engineered soldiers to guarantee their safety and ...

Send us Fan Mail Kicking off Season 3 of the Story World Explorers Podcast is our inaugural transmedia competition "A Story World in 8 Days"! We had the absolute pleasure of having 8 fantastic artists from around the world participate in a intense, 8 day world building competition. The only things they knew was that they had 8 days to build a fully functioning world and that they'd have to present it to a panel of judges in 15 minutes. If that sounds impossible, you underestimate ...

Send us Fan Mail Embark with us and transmedia producer Louie Olivas as we explore the future of mankind on the galactiport, Jancroon! Jancroon: https://jancroon.com/ Jancroon takes place over a thousand years in the future deep in space on a galactiport named Jancroon. Humankind has long since left Earth and now exist in these self-contained galactiports. Jancroon is one of these havens but is also the first of its kind. Spanning 800 miles in diameter and featuring st...

Send us Fan Mail Embark with us and fandom studies expert Jonathan Gray as we explore the importance of paratexts in transmedia storytelling! Jonathan is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Show Sold Separately. His work examines how media entertainment and its audiences interact and examines how and where value and meaning are created. A principal part of this research is found exploring paratexts; the secondary and tertiary texts produce...

Send us Fan Mail Embark with us and transmedia producer Chris Masson as we explore transmedia lessons learned from the rise and fall of the Unknown 9 story world! Chris was the Transmedia Architect of Reflector Entertainment’s Unknown 9 story world up until the world’s cancelation with less-then-ideal reception of the video game, Unknown 9: Awakening. Unknown 9 was a pure transmedia franchise, with stories expanding from novels to podcasts. Chris’s responsibilities where that of ...