Our Work

Disney, the BBC, Channel 4, Penguin…

Since 2007, we’ve worked with many of the world’s most influential media companies and brands to create online games and storytelling experiences that create lasting connections with massive audiences.

Explore our previous work through our extensive Case Studies:

In the BBC Two series The Code, Marcus du Sautoy explains how mathematics underpins everything in the world around us – and he unlocks the door to a next-generation online and real world treasure hunt…

Produced for the BBC

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A cutting-edge game about life online. Explore websites, search for clues, receive phone calls, chat on IM, and tackle puzzles and minigames. On Smokescreen, who can you trust?

Produced for Channel 4 Education

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An online extension to the BAFTA award-winning drama Misfits, where we extended the fictional universe to Twitter, Facebook, and online games.

Produced for Channel 4 with Clerkenwell Films

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A new way of telling location-based stories through smartphones, using mobile HTML5 with Foursquare and Twitter integration.

Designed and created in-house as a Six to Start project

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A four week online puzzle hunt across Twitter, Foursquare, and the real world for Death Cab for Cutie’s new album, Codes and Keys.

Produced for Death Cab for Cutie, Atlantic Records, and eBay (RedLaser)

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A thrilling worldwide treasure hunt to promote Muse’s album, The Resistance, with online and real world challenges in Paris, Dubai, Moscow, Tokyo, New York, and more.

Produced for Muse and Warner Music

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Six Authors. Six Stories. Six Weeks. A groundbreaking experiment in digital storytelling for Penguin Books.

We worked with six of Penguin’s top authors – Charles Cumming, Toby Litt, Kevin Brooks, Nicci French, Matt Mason, Mohsin Hamid, and a secret seventh author, Naomi Alderman – to create six online stories native to the web. Each story was completely original, ranging from thrillers to horror stories to fantasy, and each was also based upon a Penguin Classic – for example, The 21 Steps being inspired by ‘The 39 Steps’.

Winner of the SXSW Interactive Award for Best Experimental project and Best in Show in 2010.

Exhibited at MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art in New York) in the Talk to Me exhibition in 2011.

Produced for Penguin Books

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A rollicking alternate reality game adventure for Charlie Higson’s Young Bond series, spread over seven weeks.

Produced for Puffin Books

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A dynamic, social and fun way of exploring the UK Top 40 music charts – add your ‘love’ to the chart and see how plays on BBC Radio and DJ’s ‘love’ boost your favourite songs!

Produced for BBC Radio 1

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Uncover Britain’s hidden history with David Dimbleby, through seven weekly quests. Decipher an Old English story, find out the truth behind the Round Table, and read Henry VIII’s love letters – all in the Seven Ages Quest.

Produced for The Open University and the BBC

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Breaking News from 2013, every minute of every day: an extended world experience for Spooks: Code 9, designed by Six to Start and Kudos for the BBC.

Set in 2013 after a nuclear bomb has destroyed London, Spooks: Code 9 created a fascinating world for primetime viewers. We extended that world with Liberty News (not accessible in the US), an online news site where viewers could read articles and contribute their own content about the UK in 2013.

Produced for the BBC with Kudos Film and TV

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The Royal Observatory Greenwich (ROG), in partnership with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) and Zooniverse recently launched Solar Stormwatch, a new web project where anyone can help spot and track solar storms and be involved in the latest solar research.

Six to Start was brought in by ROG to consult on the ways game design mechanics could be used to derive the best possible engagement from its citizen science project.

Designed for the Royal Observatory Greenwich

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What People Say

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“By using the freshest of writers and production companies in Howard Overman and Clerkenwell and hottest digital talent in Six to Start and Preloaded, we’ve delivered a uniquely engaging, playful and hilarious exploration of the drama.”

Louise Brown, Head of Cross Platform Commissioning at Channel 4, on Misfits

“An amazing edugame about privacy and security online, presented in the form of overlapping IM windows social network site pages. I can’t begin to list the things it does right. It’s one of the best media literacy projects I’ve ever seen.”

Professor James Grimmelmann at NYU, on Smokescreen

“Each week is a different exercise in imagining the future of storytelling … We Tell Stories is the most ambitious project yet.”

Newsweek, on We Tell Stories

Partnerships and Quality

We want to do the best job that can possibly be done for all of our clients. And we see our clients – who include Disney, the BBC, Channel 4, Kudos Film & TV, Penguin Books, Warner Music, and The Open University – as creative partners.

We’ve worked with them to create fantastic high-quality entertainment, and at every stage of the design and development process, we make sure that everything we do, and everything we make, is geared directly towards your goals.