Sci-Fi

[itvt] has just published a video interview with Robert Allmand, a UK-based freelance graphic designer who is creating a multiplatform, multifaceted interactive story entitled "Howard Glitch."

The first implementation of the story is a YouTube Annotations-based interactive game accompanied by music that Allmand composed himself. Other completed elements include a novel; while planned elements include a documentary, an Annotations-based co-operative multiplayer game and a conceptual music album, as well as a "multimedia jigsaw puzzle" for which Allmand has successfully raised funding on Kickstarter.

[itvt] has just published "10 REASONS TO LOVE COMIC-CON," a photo essay by our "Jet Set" columnist, Brian David Johnson, consumer experience architect at Intel Corp. (note: the "Jet Set" column explores the future of TV through the prism of the places, people and conversations that Johnson experiences as he goes on a global tour for his new book, Screen Future).

Here is a round-up of some other recent interactive TV-related stories that we didn't have room for in this issue:

Microsoft's MSN service has teamed with Endemol UK and Pure Grass Films on an interactive sci-fi series, called "Kirill." The series consists of 10 three-minute episodes, hosted on MSN Video (it can be viewed in HD quality by downloading Microsoft Silverlight) and supplemented by various blogs, images, "secret" Web sites, and additional audio and video files scattered throughout the Internet. It tells the story of a man who is trying to make contact with a young woman who holds the key to the future of humanity, and it places various Microsoft products and services--including Vista, Live Search, Live Messenger, Live Spaces and MSN--at the crux of the story.