IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Let your audience do more than just watch your content - let them become a part of it.
Online
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Web activations
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Interactive livestreams
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Online games,escape rooms, and story experiences
IRL
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LBE
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World Top 20 Escape Room
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Festival and Event activations
PARTNERS
Led interaction design for YouTube’s new flagship End of Year Wrap-up, Escape2021.
AR STORYTELLING
With an eye for creative direction and a strong technical understanding, Five Story House has worked on many projects in the Augmented Reality (AR) space, creating AR interactions for mobile or HMD. Our emphasis is on narrative, including character development and voice-driven interactions.
From 2012's Cathedral to 2021's Dream with the Royal Shakespeare Company and an upcoming release with a major tech company, our team understands how these new technologies can be used across a wide variety of use cases.
PARTNERS
“Magpie Mysteries” – AR-driven story developed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Qxr Studios
NARRATIVE DESIGN
Founder Sean Stewart has published twelve novels, including Cathy’s Book, the New York Times international best-seller widely considered the first transmedia novel.
At Five Story House we combine deep understanding of traditional narrative with unmatched experience in turning stories from things your audience can read or watch by themselves, into worlds they can explore and adventures they can go on with friends old and new.
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ALTERNATE REALITY GAMES
Sean Stewart co-created the genre, acting as Lead Writer and design partner on the experiences that shaped the genre, including I Love Bees for Halo 2, The Nine Inch Nails collaboration Year Zero, and the first ARG, The Beast for Steven Spielberg’s AI: Artificial Intelligence.
PREVIOUS WORK
The AI Web Game, now known as The Beast. By building the world of Steven Spielberg’s film with websites, phone calls, newspaper ads, email, secret messages, video, and live events, The Beast pulled its audience into a compelling mystery unlike anything they had experienced before - and created an entirely new kind of storytelling native to the internet age.
"The Citizen Kane of online entertainment." – Internet Life
INTERACTIVE TELEVISION & THEATER
After winning an Emmy Award for Interactive Television in 2012, Sean joined Xbox Entertainment Studios as its Creative Director, with a mission to explore lean-forward video.
In 2020, his interactive play Roundabout, live-streamed on Twitch, headlined Australia’s Digital Theater Festival
There are more (and better, and cheaper) ways to do this than traditional branching narrative approaches. Let’s talk about it.
PARTNERS & PREVIOUS WORK
This workplace comedy about a crime scene clean-up crew won the first Prime Time Emmy ® Award for Interactive Television.
SPEAKING & CONSULTANCY
Five Story House has consulted on immersive design for the biggest companies in the world, and our team has given keynote talks in the most prestigious venues in the field, including TED, the Immersive Design Summit, Cannes Interactive, World Economic Forum, Mediatech Berlin, Sandbox Immersive Festival, Power to the Pixel, and SXSW.
PAST ENGAGEMENTS
