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Our Narrative Work

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My work usually involves translating existing stories into a VR experience, and I work with creative teams to help them evoke the moments, emotions, perspectives and insights they’re aiming for.

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This ideally sees me involved at the earliest creative stages to figure out the design side of the equation (interactions, systems, player affordances, environment design, narrative delivery, etc.) to enable them to hit the story beats they want to.

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Sometimes it involves shaping the stories around a technology, more often than not it’s about suggesting different ways and options to deliver a story beat or sequence that will be more effective.

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I often struggle to define what I do - too many strings on a complex bow! - but somebody recently commented that I’m the punch-up/script doctor guy for VR, which was both amazing to hear and also a pretty accurate metaphor as to how I can help!

Jed Ashforth

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VR narrative projects I’m credited on include –

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  • Unearthed (VR Game), Hold The World with David Attenborough , Painting the Future, unannounced survival project - Factory42

  • HiStory of a Painting Parts 1 & 2 with Fat Red Bird,

  • Ghost Dinosaurs and My Robots,  (location-based MR experiences) with Nat History Museum, Science Museum, Factory 42 and Almeida Theatre. These were 2 co-developed Audience of the Future winners, which were location-based and got cancelled midway due to COVID. The robot one ended up being an AR app.

  • Border Bots VR (VR Game) for vTime

  • A Discovery of Witches and Brittania VR  (VR experiences) for Sky Immersive

  • Narrative VR training projects with HeadSet covering and extreme weather, civil unrest and border security amongst others.

  • Therapy experiences for OxfordVR

  • Unannounced work (under NDA) with NBC Universal, Vince Gilligan, Catches.ai, Skyhook Games, Fowers Games, Crocodile Media and NovaIdea.

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Additionally -

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  • I’ve mentored multiple teams for IN4 Group, Creative England, Digital Catapult and various software developers and continue to do so.

  • We run workshops for Immersive Storytelling and Interactive Storytelling - contact me to find out more!

  • I was a Game Director and Green Light Developer at Sony PlayStation and worked with hundreds of pitches and ideas to help them develop their stories

  • I've been helping VR, MR and AR developers since 2010 overcome their design, story, and comfort challenges.

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