Resource Pack #1 now available

We have now released our first Resource Pack which is available to buy via Paypal for £19 ($29).

Featuring the Flash source code of Capped, The Rut and Floppy, this digital download pack reveals how Dreaming Methods projects are assembled and contains a 9 page hints and tips document 'Dream Building' - highly useful for anyone wanting to produce similarly atmospheric and complex digital fiction.

The Capped source code includes all of the original graphics files, compressed Flash video sequences and raw prose originally written for the piece, plus additional 3D renders and artwork of the alien machines that appear in the work. There are also 7 bonus source files - from an imaginary ocean to the basics of an atmospheric, mouse-responsive interface.

The graphics, material and source code in the Pack can be freely used or adapted for use in your own creations.

Click here to take a look

Facelift

We've given Dreaming Methods a little bit of a clean-up - the site now looks somewhat tidier and more modern, we hope you like it. We've added drop-down menus to find what you're looking for quicker - and, if you're already subscribed, feel free to sign in to the new Subscribers' Area for some exclusive goodies.

New projects are underway - Impossible Journal, WaterDreamer and a Resource Pack which reveals the Flash source code to some of our routines (a small fee will apply to download.)

Radio Interview Feature

This month Andy Campbell was interviewed by Zuzana Husarova. The final recording which includes atmospheric music was fantastically mixed by Zuzana and will be featured on Slovakian arts radio at http://www.tlis.sk/

The interview will also be available in the future on the Dreaming Methods website, shortly to be relaunched with a new project and an all-new subscribers-only area.

Jawbone TV Feature

Dreaming Methods is featured as the lead article on Jawbone TV.

"In a space cluttered with useless information and mindless entertainment so easily accessible, Dreaming Methods has created a world where the user has to work to find the story and to find the meaning of that dream’s story... It’s the closest one can come to living inside of a painting - or someone else’s mind."

Updates for June 2009

Consensus Trance Part #1

The first sequence of chapters of Dreaming Methods' latest digital fiction project are now online to experience - with future chapters to follow. Told through a series of semi-interactive scenes and video sequences where narrative fragments have to be "found" in order to progress through the story, Consensus Trance begins with a protagonist who has just returned from a school rejunion where strangely none of his old friends remember the same things he does.

Note that if you were a beta-tester for this project on the initial limited mailout, the project now contains an additional chapter, revised writing and extra effects.

Launch the work now

Inside translation and Dim O'Gauble feature

Dreaming Methods' 2002 collaboration Inside: A Journal of Dreams by Judi Alston and Andy Campbell is featured in the current issue of bleuOrange - a journal of multimedia/hyperliterature - translated into French by Sandra Dubé. The piece features alternative pages and dream sequences not found in the English version and can be viewed at full screen.

Dim O'Gauble is currently featured in the current issue of New River Journal - the first online journal dedicated exclusively to writing and digital art, established in 1996. Be sure to check out the excellent editors comments about the current state of e-literature and digital fiction.

Digital literature exhibition

Searching for a New(er) Digital Literature opened on 15th January 2009 at terminal, a space sponsored by the Department of Art and the Center for the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee USA to showcase and examine internet and new media art. Dreaming Methods' Dim O'Gauble is showcased alongside other examples of digital literature by Jim Andrews, Marvin Bell, Sommer Browning, Jody Zellen, Alexander Mouton, Jason Nelson, Victoria Welby, Stuart Moulthrop, J.R. Carpenter, Tammy McGovern, Chris Joseph and Kate Pullinger. The exhibition is curated by Alan Bigelow - www.webyarns.com - and runs until January 30.

To find out more and view the work online, click here