Launched in October of 2011, PlayStation Home Destinations is a total redesign of the public spaces of PlayStation’s virtual world. Celia Pearce worked as a consultant for Sony developing the basic concept, the genre-themes and components for each area, the hub functionality, the questing concept, and the over-arching refocusing of Home as a community for gamers. She then brought in Friends Jay Fisher and Justin Jorgensen, theme park designers extraordinaire, to art direct their very first video game project. Destinations also includes games from Codename, the indie game label I co-founded with partners from IndieCade and Psychic Bunny. PlayStation Home is also an IndieCade sponsor. Check out the promo video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuOZgndEBRk

Image and Video Copyright 2011 Sony Computer Entertainment

Client: Turner Broadcasting/Gametap
Role: Uru Anthropologist

Second Life's Uru Island, created by fans, and reopened through Gametap to promote Myst Online: Uru Live

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