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Archive-name: tv/x-files/ukfaq_part7
Posting-Frequency: monthly Last-modified: 31 March 1997 Version: 4.05 URL: http://www.netvision.co.uk/x-files/home.html See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Part 7 of The UK TXF FAQ The X-Files CD-ROM Game By the end of 1996, Seattle-based multimedia producer HyperBole Studios, in collaboration with "X-Files" creator Chris Carter and his production company, Ten-Thirteen, will be working to create an interactive episode of "The X-Files" for Fox Interactive, featuring the show's regular cast, to be released on CD-ROM sometime during 1997. HyperBole's CEO and creative director, Greg Roach, will be employing the latest version of a software engine specifically devised for creating interactive, dramatic works: VirtualCinema. VirtualCinema, which Roach designed and first employed on "Quantum Gate," is designed to make watching a story on a PC as much like going to the movies as possible. There are none of the usual distracions that appear on a computer screen. There's no frame surrounding the video image, no icons or toolbars. Occasionally you'll be prompted for a response to a question, and icons can be brought up by placing the mouse pointer on a certain part of the screen, but for the most part all the viewer sees is a movie-screen-shaped image. To do this, VirtualCinema grades your responses to different situations on a number of scales and adapts itself accordingly. "We track a series of what we call 'ubervariables,'" is the way Roach puts it. Depending on the decisions you make throughout the story, characters will react to you differently. Subtle changes in the environment may occur, the background music will shift in emotional tone, and, of course, the story itself may end in a totally unexpected manner. There are definite advantages in applying VirtualCinema to a universe as morally ambiguous, paranoid, and conspiracy-driven as that of "The X-Files" (high-level government cover-ups of inexplicable events, like alien abduction, are a large part of the show). As an example, Roach says that the "X-Files" CD-ROM will track the viewer's "paranoia level." When you watch the program, you actually become a part of the action, in the role of a third FBI agent working with Mulder and Scully. Along the way you interact with the other characters, pick up clues, and make decisions. If your decisions, or even just the way you interact with the other characters and your environment, reflect a belief that someone, or something, is out to get you--and, in "The X-Files," they probably are--then the program will react to that. The music may become tenser and more eerie, objects in a room may appear more suspicious. You may hear footsteps behind you, or find a mysterious letter on your desk, or perhaps receive a visit from that most sinister of all "X-Files" characters, Cancer Man. The final product will be delivered to Fox sometime late spring or early summer next year. Fan Clubs The X-Files Organisation - the official TXF fanclub Titan Books, the publishers of the TXF magazine, will be launching The X-Files Organisation, the UK's only officially licensed X-Files association, in co-operation with 20th Century Fox and Ten Thirteen Productions, and will offer: * An exclusive letter from the TXF producers. * Poster Magazine '0' - An intro to TXF with a collage mini-poster and a Scully and Mulder Poster. * Poster Magazine #1 - a quarterly magazine plus a large format poster in each issue. * Collectors Cards - 2 glossy, large format cards that has a portrait photo on one side, plus character profile and additional photos on the reverse. * TXF logo pin. * Membership card, entitling a 10% discount on TXF merchandise at particpating X-Files Bureaux. The cost of a 1-year membership will be 19.99UKP. Elsewhere... UNOFFICIAL CHANNELS - UNOFFICIAL UK FAN CLUB FOR THE X-FILES A brilliant year old X-Files club, for UK-based X-Philes. Club offers the cheapest membership rates for an X-Files club *ever*, and on joining you recieve more than in the other fan clubs. Membership gets you a free personalised FBI Card, and a year's subscription to the Unofficial Channels 16-page, bi-monthly newsletter. The newsletter is full of all the latest news, interviews, information on the show (episode guides, profiles, etc.), fan-fiction and much more. Our latest interview subjects have been Steven Williams (who plays X) and Stefan Petrucha (writer of X-Files comics 1-16 and other specials). We plan to have many more X-clusive interviews. For a membership form (which contains more info on the club) send an SAE to; Mike French Unofficial Channels 127 Carlton Road Gidea Park Romford Essex RM2 5AU or visit the WWW page, Department-X at (sometimes is inaccessable due to updating): [http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Unofficial_channels/] http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Unofficial_channels/ Mike can be e-mailed at 100620.3546@CompuServe.COM Newsletters None! Mike Mullen's "X-Philes UK Newsletter" has since ceased. Credit where credit is due Thanks go to "Martin Williams" for the section on Posting Guidelines "S'teN" for getting the newsgroup off the ground, for the original FAQ, and for arranging the FAQ to be available via auto e-mail! Lee Staniforth for the ManchesXter '97 Convention details Pat Gonzales and everyone that contributed to the Character Background section David Nattriss for various updates Mike Mullen for The UK X-Philes Newsletter details. Mike French for his Unofficial Channels fan club details. Rich Crozier for the details about TXF on IRC. Compiled, edited and rejuvenated (hopefully ;-) by Paul Tang. Original FAQ by S'teN Submissions and/or corrections to : txf@asfafa.demon.co.uk Martin Williams Mik Stevens Paul Tang S'teN (Stephen Beckwith) David Nattriss Lee Staniforth Mike Mullen Mike French Rich Crozier If you want to get *your* name in there, just send me a submission/correction and you'll automatically get listed! *wow* ;) Legalese If there is anything in here that breaks copyright, please inform me. Anything that has a registered trademark is a registered trademark of their respective companies. [er, yeah... :] This guide may be freely distributed, provided it is kept in its entirety and original form. Please only distribute in its entirety. Permission to reproduce, print, or publish portions of this guide must be obtained from the author. 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