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ORANGE AND LEXIS NUMÉRIQUE TAKE INTERACTIVE FICTION TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH ALT-MINDS

Bold new detective adventure combines gaming, smartphone apps, social media and web TV to provide an unprecedented degree of immersion

Participants can chose to follow the story through various media, or enter the story themselves and participate an interactive game

Orange and transmedia specialists Lexis Numérique have announced Alt Minds – an exciting, new approach to interactive fiction. Crossing the boundaries between gaming, social networking and traditional storytelling, Alt-Minds is an episodic, paranormal thriller that takes players on a captivating journey throughout Europe as they attempt to solve a series of mysterious kidnappings.

 Utilising the latest technological innovations from Orange, players in Alt-Minds actively conduct investigations, in real time, via a series of traditional and casual games on their computers, smartphones, tablets and social networks. Only by interacting with each other within the fictional world can players unravel the mystery, and maybe even earn themselves a place in its mythology.

Alt-Minds is the latest in a wide range of transmedia projects that Orange has supported since 2009, creating new forms of storytelling that allowing participants to interact with the stories and characters online and in real life. Previous transmedia projects from Orange have included Detective Avenue (www.detective-avenue.com) which involved more than 20,000 players in France alone, and FanFan2 (www.fanfan2.fr) which had nearly 3 million interactions on the story’s Facebook page.

Jean-François Rodriguez, Head of Games and Transmedia at Orange says:

"Our partnership with Lexis Numérique, a pioneer in transmedia fiction, has allowed us to combine gaming, online TV and social networks to create a new type of multi-media experience for our customers. For Orange, this is an opportunity to show that the tools we offer artists can be used to bring something new and very exciting to the public."

Eric Viennot, co-founder and Artistic Director of Lexis Numérique, explains:

"We are working with Orange to explore a new type of fiction, one which I hope will become part of the history of transmedia, a format which we started with In Memoriam back in 2003. These online experiences break down the walls between fiction and reality by offering spectators/players an unprecedented level of immersion in the story."

The Alt-Minds transmedia adventure is scheduled to start in Autumn 2012, and will be available in Europe in English, French, German and Spanish.