Talk:The Runaway (video game)

Expansion

Hey. If some of you has access to any means of playing this VR game, could they please provide some more info on the page; specifically the plot and references to anyone or anything? Thanks. :) --DCLM ☎ 17:05, May 20, 2019 (UTC)

Never mind. I found a YouTube video from "savage hamzter" called "Doctor Who: The Runaway VR experience", which shows the entire playthrough including the end credits. --DCLM ☎ 17:24, May 20, 2019 (UTC)

Invalidity Rationale?

So I've got some idea, but for the record, we're calling this invalid because…? There doesn't seem to be much of a branching story, unless you want to count the order in which one picks up the toys meant to quiet down Volta. It may be VR, but storywise, it's less interactive than Attack of the Graske was.

If the Invalid tag wasn't simply slapped on before much info surface as a reasonable assumption for a VR game, I suppose one might justify it with the fact that the new companion of the Thirteenth Doctor is offscreen and seen in first-person, implying the companion is the player, implying a fourth-wall break. Was this the idea?

Mind you, in my opinion, that's a lot of implication and not a lot of actual problem. Given that, again, the player doesn't really get to decide the companion's actions (being merely asked to perform them by the Doctor), there would be no trouble in creating a Companion (The Runaway) page that would simply lack a picture, but otherwise be little different from any page about a minor character. The fact that the unseen companion apparently entered the TARDIS following a spaceship crash seems to point away from the fourth-wall-break of the player literally being the companion, too.

If it does turn out that this was the reasoning we may have to hold a proper inclusion debate, but for now, just a query. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 20:11, May 21, 2019 (UTC)

There is precedent, but I've been searching off and on for a few days and haven't found it yet. I will keep searching later tonight and post the info here when I find it. Shambala108 ☎ 20:45, May 21, 2019 (UTC)

Ok, I found it (seriously my life would be easier if I had a better memory). It's located at Forum:Doctor Who: Worlds in Time. Completely off-topic, but the current color scheme on this wiki has to go. It's hard enough to read white on blue, much less white on very-light-gray. Shambala108 ☎ 22:52, May 21, 2019 (UTC)

So I got round to watching it and was wondering what everyone felt surrounding validity? I agree with the original statement, there really isn't anything that would make it not valid. It follows rule 1, for it has a story and 2, 3 and 4 are also all followed. StevieGLiverpool ☎ 17:10, July 3, 2019 (UTC)

If there's nothing to call it invalid, then I don't see why it couldn't be a story of equal validity to fx Series 11. This would then bring me to a question... should the game be given a "Previous Story"/"Next Story" section like the TV stories? --DCLM ☎ 21:13, July 3, 2019 (UTC)

Scroll up to see the forum decision that also applies here. Shambala108 ☎ 22:50, July 3, 2019 (UTC)

Webcast

Should we create a new page for the YouTube release? It is not a video game since it is not interactiv at all so I guess we should but i would like to see some opinions before I start creating the page.RingoRoadagain ☎ 23:21, January 29, 2020 (UTC)

I'm no admin but that seems like a tremendous idea. What with the Official Doctor Who YouTube Channel even releasing a clip from it like they would from any regular TV story, I think it's clear we should have a page about the webcast version for its own sake — especially considering the precedent of Shada (webcast) vs. Shada (audio story), where the same story and line-readings was repackaged in a different format and that counts to us as a separate story. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 18:06, January 30, 2020 (UTC)

While I believe the video game itself should be valid, I feel creating another page as a webcast is a good idea. There's literally no difference between the YouTube video and the VR release after all (it barely classifies as a video game as it is, and was even categorized as a "VR short" in some publication surrounding it). I think a separate page would be worth it, though just like Scrooge above, I am no admin, I just wanted to put my two cents in! Liria10 ☎ 18:17, January 30, 2020 (UTC)

is it

is this video game in the doctor universe n-space is it connected to the tv show oe is it not in the universe. Clarklloyd ☎ 18 April, 2020, 17:55

It is undoubtedly meant by its creators to take place in the mainstream Doctor Who universe. It is currently considered an "invalid source for in-universe articles" by our Wiki specifically, because we have rules that preclude using "interactive stories" (where you play as the companion) as valid sources. The Runaway is a bit of an edge case in any event, but while it is currently "invalid" on this Wiki, that has nothing to do with it being set in another universe. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 17:03, April 18, 2020 (UTC)

oh okay its just that this games the runaway, The Edge of Time, Worlds Collide and A Dalek Awakens are in the Thirteenth Doctor's list of appearances. Clarklloyd ☎ 19 April, 2020, 11:47 (UTC)