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"Most Full Motion Video footage in a videogame"

The game has 42 hours, 57 minutes and 52 seconds of video in it. The previous record was 7 Hours and 11 minutes!

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/88911-most-full-motion-video-footage-in-a-videogame

Sure.

FMV (Full Motion Video) means footage of live action actors and real sets shot on real cameras. There's a long history of FMV games dating back to the 80s, games like Night Trap in the 90s and more recent additions like Her Story.

The vast majority of FMV games try to merge live action film with CG locations etc for a feel that is more like an interactive movie. What Her Story and us have done is to keep the video footage AS video footage. The character in the game knows they are watching video footage and that creates a much more immersive and interesting experience. We have built the entire game and its mechanics around this.

You are a TV editor tasked with creating a live news broadcast from the footage coming in. You pick the camera angles, censor the language and make editorial decisions. As far as we know, it's the first time anyone has tried to do something like this in a game.

There was a famous interview on BBC news where a kid interrupted this serious interview and we really liked that idea. The first interview (where the lawyer gets divorced) we tried to match the original reference and then each following scene we tried to top the ridiculous of that....

Alex: I started out as an actor before becoming a game dev so an awful lot of teh cast are friends from my acting days.

Yes! We found most actors didn't really understand the world of gaming and as this is a completely new way of approaching it - they didnt really always get what we were trying to make!

Paid !

We were supposed to be shooting Episode 2 and then there was a pandemic so we had to cancel it. We quickly needed to find a way to do SOMETHING because we didn't want to let the fans down. The Snugglehugs was because we needed to have a reason for the characters to be locked down - but didn't want to do a pandemic. we thought people would be sick of that sort of stuff by the time it was out and also at that time in March 2020 we weren't sure how deadly Covid would be and didnt think it would be very funny to do a comedy pandemic as lots of people lost their lives.

There's a documentary on youtube about how we did it.