Darkstar: The Interactive Movie
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A promotional flyer for the game.
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| Developer(s) | Parallax Studio |
| Writer(s) | J. Allen Williams |
| Composer(s) | J. Allen Williams, Jimmy Pitts, Bill Bruce |
| Platform(s) | Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows |
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Mac OS X
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| Genre(s) | Interactive movie |
| Mode(s) | Single-player video game |
| Darkstar: Musical Score from the Interactive Movie | |
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| Soundtrack album by Jimmy Pitts, Bill Bruce, and J. Allen Williams | |
| Released | 5 November 2010 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Length | 145 minutes |
Darkstar: The Interactive Movie is an interactive movie video game written, produced, edited, animated, and directed by J. Allen Williams, owner of the American animation studio Parallax Studio. It starred the actor Clive Robertson and the original cast of the comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Joel Hodgson, Mary Jo Pehl, and J. Elvis Weinstein). The game also featured animations by the comic book artist Richard Corben and was the final work of actor Peter Graves, who narrated the game. Darkstar was released online on November 5, 2010 through the company website and as a downloadable through Strategy First. It was re-released in stores December 9, 2011 in the United Kingdom and Ireland through Lace Mamba Global.
Darkstar differs from the standard game format in that it contains over thirteen hours of live action cinema–far more than any previous full motion video game. Creator and Parallax Studio CEO J. Allen Williams gave a brief description of the project to the website Slightly Deranged saying:
The entire "tour" is peppered with cinema, so when you encounter certain objects or plot points, the "game" breaks into "film" mode for brief story enhancements. My idea from the start is that somebody watching you play Darkstar might wonder whether they are watching a game unfold, or if they are watching a movie. Also, there is a "back-story" that is nearly an hour long that is broken into ten chapters plus a prologue. Ten "bioloks" correspond to each chapter, and as you find them the chapters are unlocked so that you may view them, giving more insight from the past as to what is going on right now in the present. The "bioloks" can be opened in different order depending on the routes you take in the ship and in the story, but they open the story chapters in order 1-10. The prologue is available immediately for free, and any of the flicks may be viewed at any time after they are unlocked. After combining this footage with in-game cinema, you’re looking at over four hours of cinema. And any of it may be clicked past if you wish to just explore.
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