Assassin's Creed: Transmedia

With society's growing emphasis on convergence, and fan's want to know more about the universes that they love so much, transmedia storytelling (or TMS) isn't simply limited to books and movies anymore. Video games have joined in on the TMS craze, and I believe that Assassin's creed is a great example of this.

Assassin's Creed was first released in 2007 and has since had several sequels and spin-offs for almost any platform you can think of. Along the way there have also been low-budget short films released as an attempt to fill in some back story information and fillers that take place between the main games in the series. More recently, there have been a series of books that follow the events of the games, but in a written format rather than playing them.

Coming up this year there is a full-length feature film that follows the life of someone within the same universe, but completely separate from the characters from the games.