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Sigaboley—the secret language

When I was 5 and under, I had a secret language called "Sigaboley" and only my friend Peter and I could speak it.

Things are not as they seem

Moments I recall from my childhood are rarely straight forward. If I am honest, I remember them as a mix of magical and real. This is a...

My Origin Story

“Fantasy is true, of course. It isn’t factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of...

Dianne and Darcy

I sat down with Dianne to talk about her imaginary friend Darcy who she invented around the age of four-years-old. Here's what she said:...

Katie the orange button-eyed kangaroo

Many of us remember moments in our childhood play that shaped us. Below are a few memories shared very graciously by Jonathan: I think I...

Thank you Puffin Foundation

Thanks to the Puffin Foundation for awarding a grant to My Secret Country to extend our documentary film narrative into a Minecraft game.

Hidden Worlds at 826 Valencia Tenderloin

Image above by workshop participant Brandon I just finished teaching a "collaborative worldbuilding" workshop at 826 Valencia. This was...

First Trailer Released! Watch It Now

The My Secret Country Teaser Trailer

Participants Choice Award Winner

We’re POV’s Participants’ Choice Award winner! Thanks to POV Digital Labs and to all of the teams there. It was an honor to be among you....

Minecraft Adventure Map prototyped at the POV Hackathon

Our team spent the weekend hacking a Minecraft Adventure Map prototype as part of the My Secret Country Project at the POV Hackathon. My...

Anecsonoj - an other world in the restroom

Our worldbuilding workshop at 826 Valencia has wrapped up, and in a mere number of hours a world is born

World building workshop launches

The first day of our collaborative worldbuilding workshop at 826 Valencia went down this week.

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