Category:Interactive Comic: Difference between revisions

Content added Content deleted
m (remove bogus category)
m (cleanup categories)
Line 8: Line 8:
For obvious reasons, these comics cannot use a [[Strip Buffer]] at all.
For obvious reasons, these comics cannot use a [[Strip Buffer]] at all.


Frequently these comics straddle the boundary between [[Web Comic]] and [[New Media]]/[[Web Original]]. General precedent seems to be to put [[Interactive Comic|Interactive Comics]] in the Webcomic category. More and more however, traditional web comic creators are experimenting with the medium.
Frequently these comics straddle the boundary between [[Web Comic]] and [[New Media]]/[[Web Original]]. General precedent seems to be to put [[Interactive Comic|Interactive Comics]] in the Webcomic category. More and more however, traditional web comic creators are experimenting with the medium.


== Tropes often used include ==
== Tropes often used include ==
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: ''Homestuck'' has proven that as any [[Interactive Comic]] becomes popular enough, it begins to defy the medium. The creator of ''Homestuck'' has said that before ultimately closing the suggestion boxes, there were so many suggestions that he could pick any direction he wanted, subverting the idea of the interactivity.
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: ''Homestuck'' has proven that as any [[Interactive Comic]] becomes popular enough, it begins to defy the medium. The creator of ''Homestuck'' has said that before ultimately closing the suggestion boxes, there were so many suggestions that he could pick any direction he wanted, subverting the idea of the interactivity.
** ''Homestuck'' is also an interesting case study in that the author eventually got incredibly fed up by endless streams of countless moronic suggestions; something usually considered a strength of this genre.
** ''Homestuck'' is also an interesting case study in that the author eventually got incredibly fed up by endless streams of countless moronic suggestions; something usually considered a strength of this genre.
* [[Ontological Mystery]]: Often of the [[You Wake Up in a Room]] kind. [[Sturgeon's Law|Fortunately or unfortunately]], this type of beginning to a story is ''incredibly'' easy to pull off.
* [[Ontological Mystery]]: Often of the [[You Wake Up in a Room]] kind. [[Sturgeon's Law|Fortunately or unfortunately]], this type of beginning to a story is ''incredibly'' easy to pull off.
Line 25: Line 25:
[[Category:Web Comics]]
[[Category:Web Comics]]
[[Category:Webcomic Tropes]]
[[Category:Webcomic Tropes]]
[[Category:Interactive Comic]]
[[Category:Index Index]]