Timeline for How do we handle interactive films?
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| Jan 10, 2019 at 20:20 | comment | added | Thunderforge | By this definition, Plumbers Don't Wear Ties counts as on-topic for this site, despite being made for PC and the 3DO game console. Do we need to have something about the media format in this definition? | |
| Jan 8, 2019 at 0:47 | comment | added | iandotkelly Mod | @OrangeDog .... no ... to me it means pre-recorded, not "generated" video (like game content under your control). It can be animated as well as live action. | |
| Jan 8, 2019 at 0:06 | comment | added | OrangeDog | @iandotkelly "full-motion video" means live-action doesn't it? | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 20:10 | comment | added | iandotkelly Mod | Minecraft: Story Mode seems to be clearly a game, so I would propose it to be off topic. Hidden Agenda is a grey area in my mind .... you play as a group and have objectives - so in a definite sense you can "win" as an outcome. However it does seem to be just influencing the story. | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 20:01 | comment | added | iandotkelly Mod | @Chronocidal ... then I agree, a "movie" with puzzles or other game like activities, in my mind count as games and not interactive movies. I'm interested in keeping our scope as wide as possible, but I don't think we can spread to cover the entire genre of video games that have any form of cinematic story telling. | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 19:02 | comment | added | Chronocidal | @iandotkelly If nothing else - "Minecraft: Story Mode" was originally released as a Video Game in 2015. But in a broader respect, it includes puzzles that involve more than "pick the next video to watch", like the "assemble these items to create a sword" puzzle, or other video game style activities such as "aim at the target" | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 14:11 | comment | added | iandotkelly Mod | @BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft ... it would help if you said why Minecraft falls outside this definition. | |
| Dec 31, 2018 at 4:36 | comment | added | BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft | So according to this definition, "Bandersnatch" on Netflix is on-topic, but "Minecraft: Story Mode", also on Netflix, is not on-topic? Even though other non-FMV films are on-topic? (Though, if we allow that, it'd make sense to also allow Hidden Agenda which is not on Netflix) | |
| Dec 30, 2018 at 23:02 | comment | added | Napoleon Wilson Mod | @wizzwizz4 That's a bit of a useless comparison, though, since SciFi.SE is already not medium-driven. They're doing books and full-on video games already, too. | |
| Dec 30, 2018 at 22:45 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | Science Fiction & Fantasy allow CYOA, so it wouldn't be dissimilar to other site's policies. | |
| Dec 30, 2018 at 15:09 | history | answered | iandotkellyMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |