Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Interactive Storytelling Game

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was redirect to interactive fiction. This is not an official result, and anyone who thinks they know better is invited to change the redirect or turn this into a disambig. Johnleemk | Talk 11:21, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interactive Storytelling Game

Here's a real kick in the pants: I just read through my downloaded PDF version of Fantasy Imperium, and right there on page 11 of the .pdf (page 1 of the Introduction) is the quote, "Fantasy Imperium is a Historical Fantasy Role Playing Game set in Medieval Europe."

Since the term "Interactive Storytelling Game" does not appear in the text of the game itself (though it is on the website), I nominate this article for deletion. The Bearded One 06:49, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete or possibly trim down and merge somewhere. Appears to be little more than a type of role playing game with a fancy name. -- Saberwyn -08:03, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as unverifiable. No Google hits. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-01-18 11:27Z
• Delete per WP:NOR. Mark K. Bilbo 19:26, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Interactive storytelling is a big field which gets 450,000 google hits. Its a far broader category than just RPG's. Sometimes its used as an educational tool such as STORYSMITH. I found many other exampels of the term. I think there is a sufficently broad disctinction between Interactive storytelling, storytelling games and interactive strorytelling games. I've done a bit aof a trim down of the article and added a few more examples. --Salix alba (talk) 21:51, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

The article on Interactive storytelling which Pfafrich linked to is listed as a computer game stub. I am unfamiliar with any of the other examples which were added, but one of my concerns is that the current article on Interactive Storytelling Games utterly fails to distinguish itself from Role-playing games. If there is insufficient distinction, the ISG article should be deleted and turned into a redirect to the RPG article. The Bearded One 05:07, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

maybe a three way disambig to Interactive storytelling Storytelling game and Role-playing game, the terms is used in all three fields. At least three examples I've found Bag of Stories', Storysmith and Abantey don't fit in RPGs. --Salix alba (talk) 17:28, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.