Interesting: I wonder if they more closely mean the five-act structure of classical theatre, rather than the three-act structure of modern Hollywood. Because the first act for introducing characters, worldbuilding and setting up the premise is classical five-act structure right down.
Does your game have a fifth act -- a denoument?
(The place the difference between Hollywood and five-act structure is most visible to me is what they did to The Lord of the Rings to film it. Tolkien wrote five-act structure: much of the Shire and Bilbo's birthday was written as Act 1, and Act 5 was the Scouring of the Shire and Frodo and Sam going to the Grey Havens. So Hollywood had to truncate it, replacing the exposition at the start with a voiceover, and dropping the Scouring of the Shire altogether.)
(If it was good enough for Shakespeare mumble grumble... )
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2012-12-20 15:18 (UTC)Does your game have a fifth act -- a denoument?
(The place the difference between Hollywood and five-act structure is most visible to me is what they did to The Lord of the Rings to film it. Tolkien wrote five-act structure: much of the Shire and Bilbo's birthday was written as Act 1, and Act 5 was the Scouring of the Shire and Frodo and Sam going to the Grey Havens. So Hollywood had to truncate it, replacing the exposition at the start with a voiceover, and dropping the Scouring of the Shire altogether.)
(If it was good enough for Shakespeare mumble grumble... )