Strange Company's 2008
It's been quiet over here on the Strangeco website, but that's because we've been madly busy with our projects!
Overall, 2008 was a great year for Strange Company; one of our most productive years ever. We:
- Launched 2 DVDs, including the mammoth, feature-packed BloodSpell double-DVD set
- Launched our first non-Machinima series, the "geek cooking" show Kamikaze Cookery, the first series of which has been pretty darn popular, with showcases on Slashfood, in the Guardian, on Boingboing, and more.
- Got involved in politics with our "Everyone Hates Stealth" campaign against Three Strikes laws in the EU (which went really, really well)
- Hugh keynoted his first conference, speaking at the DMFest conference in Singapore on the future of guerilla showrunning and TV-on-the-Internet
- Were featured on the front page of YouTube with our adaption of "When We Two Parted" by Lord Byron
- Ran Machinima workshops and talked about Machinima all over place.
- Finally finished the multi-year, award-winning, hit, as-featured-in, etc, etc BloodSpell feature film project.
- And kept commentating on and discussing Machinima over at the Machinima for Dummies blog.
And there's probably more I've forgotten.
Next year? Well, we're figuring out where to take Kamikaze Cookery next, we're investigating new technology - there's all sorts of stuff in the pot, but right now I'm trying to figure out what our next move is out of the many, many options. Whatever it is, I hope it's as productive as this year has been!