Our guest today is Nick Tierce, a narrative designer who has been playing in the world of immersive narrative for the past decade. His latest project is Hollow Medium, a podcast and multimedia project over at https://www.hollowmedium.com.
Nick was a pioneer player of Disney’s early experiments in immersive storytelling such The Optimist, an alternate reality game (ARG) tied to the film Tomorrowland, and Legends of Frontierland at Disneyland. Check out this prediction that Nick made in 2014 as Legends of Frontierland was winding down:
“If I may be so bold as to project speculation decades down the road, I can imagine a future where — rather than grafting these experiences onto existing locations — original themed environments will be constructed to exclusively house this type of open, immersive, exploratory story world.”
Luckily for us, we didn’t have to wait long for Nicks speculation to become reality. The Galactic Starcruiser is the end product of these experiments. We were able to chat with Nick about these and many other subjects. He is an expert on the subject and we learned a ton.
NOTE – This is an abridged version of our full conversation with Nick. There is one spoiler warning about 30 minutes in. We’ll drop the full conversation with Nick in our next released episode as it was a spectacular interview filled with too much fun to keep to ourselves. Enjoy!
Nick’s article at Micechat.com from 2014 about Legends of Frontierland
