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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. :)<br>
<br>
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 :)<br>
<br>
What to put actually as the brief glossary entry though...well, then we
come around to this again, groan...good point to raise though.<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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type="cite">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.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Andrew
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Yeah, that definition leaves
a lot to be desired. My questions in my
previous post were a lot more varied.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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<div class="h5">So we would differentiate these from real-time
video
because RTV does not use human players?
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>I'm going to leave the rest of the defining to Henry for now
as
he's covered more terrain than I have.</div>
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<div>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).<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Andrew
Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:andrew@aarmstrong.org" target="_blank">andrew@aarmstrong.org</a>></span>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">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 ;)<br>
<br>
Just an example as it were.<br>
<br>
<h3>Machinima<br>
</h3>
<dl>
<dd><i>Pronounced:</i> "Ma-shin-e-ma" </dd>
</dl>
<p>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 <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Anachronox%22%20AND%20collection%3Aanimationandcartoons"
title="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Anachronox%22%20AND%20collection%3Aanimationandcartoons"
rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anachronox</a>). </p>
<p>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. </p>
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