“Merging previously disparate technologies of communication and representation into a single medium.”
Janet Murray
“It would be a mistake to compare the first fruits
of a new medium too directly with the accustomed
yield of older media.”
“The technical and economic cultivation of this
fertile new medium of communication has led to
several new varieties of narrative entertainment.
These new storytelling formats vary from the
shoot-’em-up videogame and the virtual dungeons
of Internet role-playing games to the postmodern
literary hypertext.”
Matthew Gonzalez
The Holodeck Today
-Machinima
-World-Wide Online Gaming
-Professional Gaming
-Movies About Games
-Books About Games
Video Games & Film
In all games, you are faced with choices, but some
give off even bigger changes in the outcome.
Star Wars Galaxies
Internet Role-playing Games
MMORPG’s are Online Role-playing Games where you interact with people from around the world and fight side-by-side, in a virtual
world, where you can do just about anything.
Mass Effect 2
Role-playing Games
In RPG’s you play along a story but at the same time, you are capable of making decisions that can change the outcome.
This is the latest form of Linear Narrative story gaming.
Halo: Reach Beta
First Person Shooters
Also known as FPS games, the user sees from your characters perspective and are either able to play against/with
other people from around the world, through the web or private networks.
Halo Wars
Real Time Strategy
In RTS games you control not a single character but, a whole army.
You command your forces to move/attack/defend wherever you wish, while fighting off other armies.
Story Telling In Videogames
In Video Games, there are two types of story
telling:
 Linear Multistory Narrative: Where the
character is faced with choices that alter the way
the story moves.
 Or, what I call, Direct Narrative: Where the
character moves along a set course and is only in
charge of how long and who they kill or interact
with on their way, while keeping the same ending.
Example: In Mass Effect you play as the
first Human Spectre and can decide how
you play the story. Choose to be bad, or
good.
Example: Halo is a story where you play
as the last of a group of Super Soldiers
and can only decide what weapons, and
vehicles you use to get to the final
destination.
Machinima
 “Using a real-time graphics rendering engine (a game
engine) to generate computer animation.
 It’s a more efficient way of creating large projects by
using established routine to animate individual
characters. It’s called, uh, Machinima, and it’s gonna
be a more and more popular way of doing animation
projects.” -- Private Leonard L. Church {Red Vs
Blue}
 Red Vs Blue is the first Machinima series to make
it into the popular Media.
Within the Holodeck
Machinima is basically another form of
media that combines film and the newest
media: Video Games.
It combines the themes of Video Games,
while at the same time, displaying it in film.
Red Vs Blue System Setup
A scene from Rooster Teeth Productions' popular machinima series Red vs. Blue:
The Blood Gulch Chronicles
Mirror’s edge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQS8aKC4oP8