Story World Explorers

Join us as we have fun, in-depth conversations with creators about their passion projects. Together exploring their story world, characters, themes, and potential transmedia outlets.

Story World Explorers is a tv podcast hosted by Frank & Jack Konrath, with 77 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Frank & Jack Konrath hosts Story World Explorers, a tv show with 77 episodes published.

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  Episode #2

  SWE #23 B.E.A.R.S. with Davence Young

  Mar 31, 202658 minS5

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Embark with us and transmedia producer Davence Young as we explore the future of warfare and it’s hidden past in the B.E.A.R.S story world! </p><p>Dragonesque Studios: https://davence.wixsite.com/dragonesque-studios </p><p>B.E.A.R.S the Awakening takes place in the not-too-distant future where there is an arms race to create the super soldier.  The year is 2120 and the world’s superpowers are actively trying to develop bio-engineered soldiers to guarantee their safety and effectively have phycological power over their rivals.  Shadow Core, a piece...

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  SWE #22 A Story World in 8 Days - Winter 2026

  Feb 17, 202656 minS5

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Kicking off Season 3 of the Story World Explorers Podcast is our inaugural transmedia competition "A Story World in 8 Days"!</p><p>We had the absolute pleasure of having 8 fantastic artists from around the world participate in a intense, 8 day world building competition.  The only things they knew was that they had 8 days to build a fully functioning world and that they'd have to present it to a panel of judges in 15 minutes.  If that sounds impossible, you underestimate the talent of these creatives!</p><p>This episode is a compilation of the competition.  Wha...

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  SWE #21 Jancroon with Louie Olivas

  Nov 6, 20251h 2mS4

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Embark with us and transmedia producer Louie Olivas as we explore the future of mankind on the galactiport, Jancroon! </p><p>Jancroon: https://jancroon.com/</p><p>Jancroon takes place over a thousand years in the future deep in space on a galactiport named Jancroon.  Humankind has long since left Earth and now exist in these self-contained galactiports.  Jancroon is one of these havens but is also the first of its kind.  Spanning 800 miles in diameter and featuring star-scrapers, Jancroon is home not to just mankind, but an entirely different species of intelligent life...

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  SWE #20 Show Sold Separately with Jonathan Gray

  Aug 21, 20251h 1mS4

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Embark with us and fandom studies expert Jonathan Gray as we explore the importance of paratexts in transmedia storytelling! <br/> <br/>Jonathan is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Show Sold Separately.  His work examines how media entertainment and its audiences interact and examines how and where value and meaning are created.  A principal part of this research is found exploring paratexts; the secondary and tertiary texts produced by both the fandom and entertainment entity to support, hype, and contextualize the larger pieces of content.  Think the movie poster for a...

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  SWE #19 Unknown 9 with Chris Masson

  Jul 29, 20251h 13mS4

  <p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Embark with us and transmedia producer Chris Masson as we explore transmedia lessons learned from the rise and fall of the Unknown 9 story world! <br/><br/>Chris was the Transmedia Architect of Reflector Entertainment’s Unknown 9 story world up until the world’s cancelation with less-then-ideal reception of the video game, Unknown 9: Awakening.  Unknown 9 was a pure transmedia franchise, with stories expanding from novels to podcasts. Chris’s responsibilities where that of a lore master, owning the transmedia bible and ensuring world continuity throughout the Unknown 9 story world.  <br/><br/>Chris experienced the dizzying...

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