Harmonize | Licorice Film

Harmonize is a site-specific collaborative team game designed by Jon Williams, where one player takes the role of ‘the seeker’ on the street armed with a PDA and a two-way radio and the other members of the team work together using a large screen installation.

Using Hewlett Packard’s mscape technology and a custom web-based interface, Harmonize explores behavioural dynamics of team play across physical and virtual worlds.

Jon Williams has worked with Licorice film on a number of pervasive gaming projects, including co-creating the Meigeist Alternative reality game and developing gaming content for HP’s mediascape technology. He has also worked as a freelance motion graphic designer, developing online promotional content for feature film, band promos and individual companies.

Harmonize Executive Producer Hazel Grian has worked as a director, writer and performer in film, animation, radio, and street theatre and has been hailed as a 'funny film-making genius' by The Simpson's creator Matt Groening. In the past few years Hazel has increasingly concentrated on developing cross-platform entertainment. Hazel created the successful Alternate Reality Game Meigeist, which in early 2007 was avidly followed by an on-line community of thirty thousands worldwide. Later in 2007, Hazel was the story and script writer for season one of KateModern, the Bafta nominated interactive drama hosted by Bebo and produced by the US creators of hit online series LonelyGirl15. In 2007 Hazel was also script writer for British Red Cross AIDS Awareness campaign hosted by Bebo. In 2008, in partnership with Hewlett Packard, Hazel has just launched The Sky Remains an Alternate Reality Game that has its own social networking site and includes a world wide GPS treasure hunt.
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