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Title: What is a Cinematic Game


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What is a Cinematic Game?
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vs.
  • Are these art forms compatible?

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  • Cinematic Game
  • Does it mean
  • Lots of cut-scenes?
  • Heavily scripted?
  • Limited interaction?
  • Linear narrative?

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  • Cinematic Game
  • Does it mean
  • Glitzier award ceremonies?
  • Hang out with celebrities?

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  • How about a better meaning for cinematic?
  • Cinematic Game Design
  • (Rouse Stoltz at GDC 06)
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  • http//www.paranoidproductions.com

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  • Another meaning
  • Story driven (pre-written)
  • Player is part of something important
  • Highly immersive
  • Minimum of gamey elements
  • High production values

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  • Story driven (pre-written)
  • Metal Gear Solid 3

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  • Player is part of something important
  • Call of Duty 2

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  • Highly immersive
  • Half-Life 2

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  • Minimum of gamey elements
  • The Chronicles of Riddick
  • Escape from Butcher Bay

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  • High production values
  • Resident Evil 4

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  • I want to play a movie!

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  • I want to play a movie!

A Jerry Bruckheimer Movie
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  • Does every game have to be the equivalent of a
    Bruckheimer production?
  • - Warren Spector

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  • You guys do power fantasies so much better than
    we ever did!
  • (paraphrased)
  • - Scott McCloud

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  • A power fantasy where youre in control is
    fundamentally a much stronger power fantasy.

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  • Almost all games are power fantasies, of one type
    or another.

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  • Call of Duty 2

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  • Grand Theft Auto III

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  • Civilization III

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  • Guitar Hero

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  • The Sims

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Tetris
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Tetris
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  • All storytelling games are power fantasies, of
    one type or another.

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  • Yet only a portion would work as movies.

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  • Yet only a portion would work as movies.

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  • The Overlap

Movie Stories
Game Stories
Game or Movie Stories
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  • Many movies wouldnt
  • work as games.
  • (Particularly ones that arent power fantasies.)

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  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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  • Titanic

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  • Three Colors Red

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  • Citizen Kane

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  • The Overlap is Small

Game Stories
Movie Stories
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  • A supposition
  • All art is about eliciting emotional response
    from the audience.

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  • Games can evoke some emotions that no other art
    form can. (At least, not as well.)
  • Tension
  • Transgression
  • Pride
  • Nurturing

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  • Tension
  • Doom

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  • Transgression
  • Grand Theft Auto III

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  • Pride
  • Civilization III

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  • Heavy Metal Transcendence
  • Guitar Hero

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  • Nurturing
  • The Sims

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  • The best games evoke emotions exclusive to games.

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  • One day soon, calling a game cinematic will be
    a backhanded compliment, like calling a movie
    stagy.

- Jordan Mechner
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  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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  • Gilmore Girls

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  • The Bell Jar

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  • Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth

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  • The Sims

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  • The best storytelling fully embraces the nature
    of its medium.

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  • The best storytelling fully embraces the nature
    of its medium.

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  • The best storytelling fully embraces the nature
    of its medium.

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  • The best storytelling fully embraces the nature
    of its medium.

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  • The best storytelling fully embraces the nature
    of its medium.

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  • The best storytelling fully embraces the nature
    of its medium.

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