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# Transmedia Manifest gets down to brass tacks of alternate reality
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/transmedia-manifest-gets-down-to-brass-tacks-of-alternat/
- Published: 2011-11-11T18:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:50:56.000Z
- Description: Until now, transmedia has been held to the obscenity test. You know it when you see it, but its hard to come up with a definition. When I interviewed Jim Babb for the Public Play issue, even he had trouble summing it up-and he has helped create several successful transmedia projects! Thankfully, a g
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Until now, transmedia has been held to the obscenity test. You know it when you see it, but its hard to come up with a definition. When I interviewed Jim Babb for [the Public Play issue](http://shop.killscreendaily.com/products/issue-4-public-play?ref=killscreen.com), even he had trouble summing it up-and he has helped create several successful transmedia projects!

Thankfully, a group of transmedia-ists have came up with a list that explains the confounding storytelling technique.

> Thesis 1\. Claiming reality: Fiction supersedes reality, becoming as immersive as possible.  
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> Thesis 2\. Rabbit holes: The story offers multiple entry points to the experiencer, depending on the medium and situation in which it is used.  
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> Thesis 3\. Story universe: The experiencer no longer follows one dramatic thread but chooses among several intersecting storylines, which merge into a single story-universe.

And so on…

Or they could have just said it’s like reading a book while surfing the net, playing a videogame, playing on the playground, watching YouTube, going on a scavenger hunt, listening to an iPod, and sometimes dancing.

[Read the rest here.](http://www.transmedia-manifest.com/?ref=killscreen.com)

*\-Jason Johnson*