The official Jamie Kane site works as a typical, record company designed fansite would.
Built in Flash, players can stream audio tracks and view artwork from three phases of JKs musical career- ‘boyband’, ‘boyband member goes solo (ie cheesy pop)’ and then ’serious-solo-artist-phase’.
The songs, while not to my taste, are professionally produced and the attention to detail and charaterisation is astounding. If you were to were to come across the site randomly, you would never guess it was part of a game, and that’s why it works -it is so slick, the alternate reality is maintained. Also, buying the correct domains is imperative – if Jamie’s offical site stemmed from bbc.co.uk, its realness, would be instantly negated.
It again demonstrates the puppetmasters‘ through understanding of its intended audience, and their technological expectations. A basic HTML based site, would have shattered the illusion.
The only thing that is missing from a site of this ilk is a ‘contact us’ function, which is uncessary here – if players could contact the site, it would add another ludic layer that doesn’t really add anything to the overall game, and would result in lots of unnecessary behind-the-scenes work.
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