Crew Call: Game Changers

The Project
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This summer, Megaverse is hosting a two-part live interactive narrative game that will empower audiences to make collective decisions in the fight against climate change.

We are seeking experienced camera operators with backgrounds in live event broadcast and/or shooting documentaries, and new talent to join us as runners to keep the production on track.

Game Changers is a multiplatform collaboration between climate researchers and educators, games experts and enthusiasts, and immersive theatre creatives and communicators, live streamed to audiences who can be part of the action, voting in polls to change the direction of the story, and using chat to provoke conversation.

Funded by UK Research & Innovation, this action research pilot explores how gaming and non-gaming audiences can galvanise and act towards positive change to tackle the climate crisis.

Each chapter will introduce new challenges and character dynamics which gamers must come together to help resolve, with the audience having complete agency to shape narrative outcomes, engaging with our motion-captured actors and AI-bot ECO in real time.

About Megaverse
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Megaverse is an interactive studio that uses digital innovation to develop bespoke immersive experiences. By merging digital innovation with theatre, film, gaming, storytelling and the visual arts, we push the creative potential of XR technologies (augmented, virtual and mixed realities).

Alongside developing AR and VR apps for clients, Megaverse is also developing a series of ‘in-house’ location based experiences. One of which, called SURGE, premiered at Sage Gateshead in 2022. The piece is an immersive performance exploring climate change using monolithic LED screens, motion capture and VR and featuring music by Anna Meredith, spoken word poetry by Vanessa Kisuule, and a live performance by The PappyShow.

Megaverse is led by directors Ben Carlin and John Ingle who work with an interdisciplinary team of highly skilled employees and freelancers to create unforgettable and novel experiences by synthesising new and emerging technologies with storytelling - where the audience become active participants rather than passive spectators.