[Groop] Re: Question for ME on DVD etc format

[Mark Evanier]

On Tue, 25 May 2004 01:23:23 +0300, "Greg Craill" <grooless at yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Mind you how would people rate animated games on computers/consoles as cartoon artforms.
>They have cartoon graphics and sound effects, they have story lines, the difference being that the player/reader can alter the course of the plot by controlling some of the characters and influencing the final story.
>
>How different to the old Steve Jackson fighting fantasy books ? And how removed from actual comics, they could be construed as an interactive comic.
>
>MARK - Do you ever see this type of "interactive comic" being a viable artform ? 
>
>(More of a story with possible plot directions based on limited "reader" input, than 
>as a game where every action is controlled, and possibly using mainstream characters from the marvel or DC universe ?)

ME: To me, if you have readers inputting anything that controls the
material that way, it's a game.  And I do think games are viable and
that what you describe could be a viable art form.
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