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39 Clues - visit the website
39 Clues was created by Scholastic and the initial creative team behind the launch included Patrick Carman, Rick Riordan, and Gordon Korman - all multi-million selling children’s authors. The project included multiple off-the-page elements:
50 collectible playing cards built into books with codes to access bonus web content.
Dozens of video games and learning tools. When completed, these activities provided power ups and hidden downloads.
A national contest for one reader to win $100,000.
Massive touring machine with hundreds of events across the United States.
To date, the 39 Clues series has sold over 30 million books in 26 countries.
Skeleton Creek - visit the website
All aspects of the project created by Patrick Carman for Scholastic including web design, 40+ narrative videos scripted, shot, and edited, writing six books, and developing all web assets. This project is told in alternating words and videos unlocked with a password online. Videos have been watched over 40 million times. Other elements of the project:
Viral Skeleton Creek is Real campaign and website, with over five million visits.
State by state haunted investigation videos.
Videos of the haunted back-lot for the filming.
Easter egg based website with 20 hidden objects.
Skeleton Creek has about two million books in print and going strong.
Dark Eden
All elements created by Patrick Carman for Harper Collins. A teen novel transformed into an immersive app that takes the reader through a storytelling system comprised of:
Maps the user explores, searching for numbered icons.
Videos the user watches.
Audio files the user listens to.
Written diary entries the user reads.
This product is no longer active in the app store.
Towervale - visit the website
All elements created by Patrick Carman. Towervale is a book and a video game at the same time. The book is written out of order, and the only way to find your way through the story is to win the game levels encountered along the way. The game tells players what page to turn to, but the book tells readers how to beat the game levels. A diabolical way to get kids reading, they have to read the book to win the game, and play the game to read the book. Patrick is a retro gamer and designed the game to look and play like his favorite classics.
Patrick also built the entire world of Towervale inside Minecraft, where readers can visit and find seven hidden video game levels not found in the book.
Voyagers - visit the website
All creative overseen by Patrick Carman for Random House. All six books and the world of Voyagers outlined by Patrick Carman, and he wrote the third book in the series. A variety of off book activities include:
An alien language printed in the margins of the book can be taken to the web site for decoding secret messages.
Customize and collect robots.
Play half a dozen games based on events in the books.
Explore the Voyagers universe.
Thirteen Days to Midnight
A dark teen thriller, Thirteen Days to Midnight included an online destination designed by Patrick where readers could explore the car crash that opens the book. Open the door, enter the car, find hidden clues and objects, and watch videos.
Aftershock
A narrative podcast created and written by Patrick Carman and sold to Salmara for distribution through iTunes (production complete, release date December, 2020). Voice actors for the production: David Harbour (Stranger Things), Russell Hornsby (The Hate You Gave), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead), and Tati Gabrielle (The 100), among others.
The Claw
When pocket.watch wanted a narrative horror podcast for their millions of fans, Patrick created The Claw. A 10-part narrative podcast, The Claw explores artifacts collected in the Claw warehouse, all of which are haunted and very dangerous. Patrick created the Claw character, including the sketches and 3D rendering, and wrote the world bible and all episodes. Available as an Audible original series.