her projects - dreamer

contact her@shenerd.com site updated november 2000

h2g2.action is an online high bandwidth documentary project. Inspired by 'Last Chance to See' h2g2.action brings you the latest news, features and evidence about three of the world's most endangered species.

h2g2 takes the enduringly popular fiction of the original Hitchhiker's Guide the Galaxy and makes it real, creating a collaborative on-line Guide to Life, the Universe and Everything.

From 1995 to 1998, I ran my own new media company called lush. I produced both independent work as well as specific commissions.

A point-and-click adventure game, it is stocked with beautifully observed characters. Your mission is to blag your way from the Titanic's steerage to first class by puzzle-solving and verbal interaction with the characters.

http://www.dreamer.org.uk

Dreamer is a project currently in development, we will be taking the demo out to publishers in 2001 for further funding.

It will be a game with a difference. From the first moment I saw it I knew I was looking at a new type of experience, one that closely meshed story and gameplay to create a dramatic emotional engagement within a magical world.

I believe that people will always want to surrender their attention to another's vision and that wherever interactivity takes us, the power of the story-teller to address our human self remains sacrosanct.

When I talk about game as story, I don't mean branched narrative or wide-option based experiences, I mean immersion through deep involvement in a great story.

I believe there needs to be an independent publishing channel encouraged in the games industry, one that encourages and allows for different types of experience and player.

I hope this will be built on the internet.

'Gaming for grown ups' best describes the fundamental principle of Dreamer. Essentially a platform game, Dreamer builds an interactive fictional world that combines high action, absorbing game play with emotional drama.

I was Production Director at Zone (UK) Ltd., my responsibilities ranged from producing the original Vid Zone consoles to contributions to UnZip (the UK's first CD-ROM magazine) published in 1995.