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Announcing a new project — “SILENT HILL: ASCENSION”

Often, I am not allowed to talk about what I'm working on. So it's always exciting when I can share something about a project. For the past year I've been working with folks at Genvid, DJ2 Entertainment, and Martian Brothel on a new kind of interactive storytelling experience. And today, we get to share the first teaser trailer for SILENT HILL: ASCENSION. Coming later this year.

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The Peabody Awards Announce “Legacy” Winners for Digital and Interactive Storytelling

The Peabody Awards Interactive Board of Jurors announced an initial slate of “legacy” award winners, projects that paved the way for digital and interactive storytelling.

ATHENS, GA (March 24, 2022)—Today, the Peabody Awards Interactive Board of Jurors unveiled 12 winning digital and interactive projects alongside four Special Awardees that have achieved outstanding feats in storytelling across interactive, immersive and new media categories. The distinguished “Legacy class” of winners whose mediums altogether span Virtual and Augmented Reality, Gaming, Interactive Journalism, Social Video, Interactive Documentary, Transmedia Storytelling, and more, demonstrate the depth of these digital formats and emphasize the foundational standards for future award recipients.  

“To recognize the present and future of storytelling in digital spaces, Peabody has taken the unusual step of looking backwards, recognizing landmark pioneering projects that have shaped and defined powerful stories in interactive and immersive media forms,” said Dr. Jeffrey Jones, executive director of Peabody. “We are honored to highlight these legacy projects and their creators, all of which signal the type of meaningful stories we will be recognizing each year going forward.”

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