NoKnownSurvivors.com is an experiential site that allows visitors to explore the narrative world of Dead Space. Over nine weeks, the site employs interactive components, 3D animations, voice acting, original video and animation, as well as Papervision 3D technology to tell two equally tragic four chapter stories. The First, "Misplaced Affection", is the story of an organ replacement technician who falls hard for a capable female security officer. The second, "13", tells of a sleeper agent who makes the wrong decisions for the right reasons. For an exclusive look behind the scenes of the launch check out IGN (http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/902/902628p1.html) complete with exclusive assets including lost audio logs between a doctor and her patients, organ replacement forms, and video of the 3D body parts.
We worked really close with the studio team on this for story and creative, and have used some technology here on the execution that is really necessary in bringing an interactive narrative to fruition online. If anyone wants to chat with us on how we accomplished it we can set up interviews as well with the creative team.
With two stories, eight chapters and an intermission unfolding over nine weeks, NoKnownSurvivors.com has a multitude of exciting, immersive content. The "hub" manages all of it. A vast cosmic deathscape, the hub features 9 severed body parts, each one representing a content release. The week before a content piece goes live, its assigned body part begins to mutate, finally evolving in to a mature Necromorph body part (Necromorphs are re-animated, mutated corpses of fallen crew members). Each Monday (beginning today, August 25th) a new Necromorph part will be live and clickable, ready to take users deep into the content featured on NoKnownSurvivors.
