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We have a Let's Play namespace. It should probably either go there or Web Original.
Edited by KyleJacobs
If it doesn't exist, it goes in Darth Wiki. We do allow Just for Fun for this stuff on occassion, but I think that needs mod approval
@Kyle: no, things that are hoaxes do not go in media namespaces, unless you're describing it as a hoax, they go in Just for Fun or Darth Wiki.
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From watching the first video, I'd put it in Web Original. It's not really a Let's Play, since the game doesn't exist, but the videos themselves do exist.
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I do not think that whether a game actually exists or not influences the namespace status of an actually existing Let's Play.
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What Septimus said. Plus, Web Original is kinda a "last resort" namespace when no other fit, mostly used for memes. If it has the format of a Let's Play, then it goes in LetsPlay/. Namespaces are flexible.
I agree - if there is a Let's Play or something similar about an imaginary game, then the Let's Play is the work we're troping, and it does exist.
This makes me think about a book by Stanisław Lem that consist entirely of made-up reviews of works that don't exist. This doesn't make the book unworthy of a work page (I don't know if such a work page exists or not), it just changes the genre of the book from criticism to fiction.
I originally was thinking Let's Play, but the more I've thought about it, the less that makes sense. It's vaguely in the form of an LP, but it's really manipulated images a la WebVideo.Ben Drowned.
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Let's Play seems like the best place. Even if faked, it has all the trappings of one.
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Then should the tropes be modified to be about the Let's Play, rather than the game? Because the trope listing treat it like a real game, with entries like Artificial Brilliance and other video game tropes.
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I suppose you could make an analogy to characters in a fictional movie: we trope the characters, their habits and actions, even though they are not real people. Similarly, you could argue that the fictional game is a kind of character in a piece of fiction, hence it can be troped.
On the other hand, almost a year ago I wrote (see above) that it's the Let's Play that is the work to be troped. However, then I was writing about whether the work page should be about the fictional game or about the Let's Play. So I suppose what I'm saying is that the work page should be for the fictional Let's Play, but that it can be OK to trope the fictional game on that page.
Edited by GnomeTitan
We should not be troping the fictional game as if it is real. We can list the tropes that the Let's Play uses to describe it, as we would any Show Within a Show.
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^I didn't mean that it should be troped as if it were a real game. But you expressed it better than I did. A Show Within a Show is a good comparison.
The trope description for Show Within a Show already makes it for any fictional medium, not just tvshows. :-)
We could do a page for the fictional work (we do it in other places) but that should be made after the work it exists in. :-)
Edited by crazysamaritan Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
The Let's Play is trope-able. The fictional game, having not been "released" outside the LP, is not.
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^^ Although Fictional Video Game or Game Within a Game are specific subtropes of Show Within a Show for video games.
Good call. I wasn't aware of them.
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Also, Sugar Wiki.Watchmen - should probably be a Just for Fun.
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Upon giving it more thought and learning more ins and outs about TV Tropes, I'm pretty positive this should go to Just for Fun/ as-written because it's troping the fictional game like it's real. We could make a separate page in the Let's Play/ namespace, but we'd have to rewrite every single example to make it fit.
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Separate discussion, please. Also, I believe the normal precedent is that we have nothing against jokes in the article spaces so as long as they are funny and stay very rare.
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@Septimus: What do you mean when referring to "jokes in the article spaces"?
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VideoGame.Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Special Edition is about a hoax videogame. The trope list mostly presents it In-Universe, but it's basically a Let's Play (of something that doesn't exist, so maybe it should be a Just for Fun page?).
What namespace should it be in?