[game_preservation] More Retro Machinima (with Andrew raving about glossaries, oh yay)

[Andrew Armstrong]

I know I'm being pedantic, but of course terms change and get reused - 
is one studio enough to say it's a key definition? :) Even the largest 
studio is hardly a fraction of a percent of the industry after all. :)

It's a tough call - for this though, anything further then the 
glossary-size would go in a full article on the subject, which allows 
that kind of depth :)

What to put actually as the brief glossary entry though...well, then we 
come around to this again, groan...good point to raise though.

Andrew

Devin Monnens wrote:

> Hmm. Well, this might be something we could get game developers 

> interested in contributing to. If a term is used differently in your 

> studio, then you would say 'at our studio, we use this term in this 

> way'. I think this works as well for definitions of game - don't just 

> have one definition, but outline several key definitions that are in use.

>

> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Andrew Armstrong 

> <andrew at aarmstrong.org <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>> wrote:

>

>     Yeah, that definition leaves a lot to be desired. My questions in

>     my previous post were a lot more varied.

>

>     Glad you think a glossary might be useful. I dare not put it on

>     the wiki, not because I care about being wrong (it can be

>     corrected) just I've got it as a huge wiki list right now and it's

>     impossible to find anything (the TOC is a few pages long...). I'm

>     still slowly working on other php stuff so this was going to be

>     part of that. Technical content is important. For browsing I'll

>     have to make sure they can be separated - the main terms for

>     videogame things are more specialised then most, if not all,

>     graphical and programming terms, which is where there is little

>     information available.

>

>     Andrew

>

>     Devin Monnens wrote:

>>     So we would differentiate these from real-time video because RTV

>>     does not use human players?

>>

>>     The reason I brought up blue screens is because if we had a

>>     modern equivalent to Who Framed Roger Rabbit (say a sci fi war

>>     film with some guy from Unreal in it). Roger Rabbit is animation,

>>     but it is not a fully animated film.

>>

>>     I'm going to leave the rest of the defining to Henry for now as

>>     he's covered more terrain than I have.

>>

>>     Regarding your glossary, I think such a book would be incredibly

>>     helpful, especially if it is including technical terms used by

>>     artists and programmers. Someone who is familiar with all the

>>     terms will be able to communicate with fellow artists and

>>     programmers (something that seems to be a problem in the industry

>>     as well as in education).

>>

>>     On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Andrew Armstrong

>>     <andrew at aarmstrong.org <mailto:andrew at aarmstrong.org>> wrote:

>>

>>         Oh, hold my own horses, my mini-glossary I did write a mini

>>         machinima definition for myself, I wonder if this fits.

>>         Again, I wanted to find examples (there should be a lot more

>>         blue links or references!) but not too bad re-reading it now

>>         for 2 paragraphs despite being a bit "meh" on the descriptive

>>         side of content. Note while I want to get pronounciations,

>>         alternative spellings etc. I've obviously not done it to any

>>         standard here ;)

>>

>>         Just an example as it were.

>>

>>

>>               Machinima

>>

>>             /Pronounced:/ "Ma-shin-e-ma" 

>>

>>         From the words "Machine", "Animation" and "Cinema", it is the

>>         description of a range of videos made from filming

>>         videogames. These sometimes are specially made for a game to

>>         explain some story (released separately from the game, so

>>         thus not a cutscene), or be a fully released online video of

>>         a games content and playthrough (such as Anachronox

>>         <http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Anachronox%22%20AND%20collection%3Aanimationandcartoons>).

>>

>>

>>         Most commonly they are fictional films, based sometimes on

>>         the original characters but often new ones, with their own

>>         plot and filming unrelated to the normal game. There are also

>>         music videos, films, and series of works rather then one

>>         off's, or series based on the original characters. Usually

>>         the "cast" is played by player avatars in the multiplayer

>>         mode of the game.

>>

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