FIVE MINUTES is a live-action game created for zombie-lovers, gamers and other tough-as-nails audiences. The experience blurs the line between a zombie game and branded interactive film.
I participated in the creation of the interactive short fiveminutes.gs in creating the game concepts and planning and supervising User testing to tweak the mini games and the user interaction. The interactive short was written and directed by Maximilian Niemann and published under the UNIT9 PRESENTS label.
FIVE MINUTES is an HTML5 experience and can be played on all desktop and tablet devices.
“A fantastic project, incredible production and interactivity. Delighted to see it scoop our coveted Site of the Year People’s Choice Award.”
Rob Ford, Founder & CEO of The FWA
With over 4.2 million players from 200 countries and dozens of viral Let's Play videos on YouTube, the interactive film became a viral hit.
FIVEMINUTES was honoured with several awards including:
Lovie Awards Gold, Lovie Awards Audience Award, Favorite Website Awards (Site of the Day, Site of the Month, Mobile of the Day, The Cutting Edge Award, People´s Choice Award Best Website of 2014), Awwwards, Clio Awards Best Digital Technique 2015, Clio Awards Best Game Student 2015, Art Directors Club Germany Junior Gold, New York Festivals World's Greatest Advertisement First Prize Award, Art Directors Club Germany Silver award, Deutscher Digital Award Silver
You can experience the interactive short here: http://fiveminutes.gs
Cast: Kieran Bew, Hannah Chinn
Credits: Idea, Script & Director: Maximilian Niemann | Producer: Felix Faisst | Interactive Media Producer: Jonas Kirchner | Director of Photography: Christopher McKissick | Game concepts, UX & User Testing: Ricarda Saleh Rojas I UI/UX & Interactive Art Direction: David Brenner & Philipp Mooren I Production Design: Tonia Hochsieder I Editor: Fabian Gustus I Music:Daniel Brenner I Sound Design: Jascha Viehl I Production Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg & UNIT9 I Tech Lead: Zbigniew Czarnecki & Kamil Cholewinski I Lead Developer: Karol Altamirano I Developer: Michal Przyszczypkowski & Marek Sklodowski I Project Manager: Sandra Popescu I Creative Partner: Piero Frescobaldi