Template:Did you know nominations/Alone in the Dark (1992 video game)

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The result was: promoted by Edge3 (talk) 15:23, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Alone in the Dark (1992 video game)

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... that Infogrames hired Hubert Chardot to write the story of the game Alone in the Dark which he would outline in just three afternoons and write most of the game's dialogue? Source: Ichbiah, Daniel (2009). La Saga des Jeux Vidéo [The Video Game Saga] (in French) (New ed.). Triel-sur-Seine, France: Éditions Pix'n Love. ISBN 9782918272021. Retrieved 15 May 2023 – via The Internet Archive. Page 153-154
ALT0a: ... that Infogrames hired Hubert Chardot to write the story of the game Alone in the Dark - which he would outline in just three afternoons - and write most of the game's dialogue? Source: Ichbiah, Daniel (2009). La Saga des Jeux Vidéo [The Video Game Saga] (in French) (New ed.). Triel-sur-Seine, France: Éditions Pix'n Love. ISBN 9782918272021. Retrieved 15 May 2023 – via The Internet Archive. Page 153-154
- ALT1: ... that the decision to allude H. P. Lovecraft's creations rather than an directly adapting in to Alone in the Dark led to Chaosium removing Infrogames's Call of Cthulhu license? Source: Ichbiah, Daniel (2009). La Saga des Jeux Vidéo [The Video Game Saga] (in French) (New ed.). Triel-sur-Seine, France: Éditions Pix'n Love. ISBN 9782918272021. Retrieved 15 May 2023 – via The Internet Archive. Page 154
- ALT1a: ... that the decision to allude to H. P. Lovecraft's creations, rather than directly adapting them, in Alone in the Dark led to Chaosium removing Infrogames's Call of Cthulhu license? Source: Ichbiah, Daniel (2009). La Saga des Jeux Vidéo [The Video Game Saga] (in French) (New ed.). Triel-sur-Seine, France: Éditions Pix'n Love. ISBN 9782918272021. Retrieved 15 May 2023 – via The Internet Archive. Page 154
- ALT2: ... that despite Alone in the Dark being advertised as a game inspired by the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Raynal has admitted that the works of Argento and Romero were stronger influences? Source: Stobbart, Dawn (2019). Videogames and Horror: From Amnesia to Zombies, Run!. Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press. ISBN 9781786834386. Page 33 , Roux-Girard, Guillaume (2009). "Plunged Alone into Darkness: Evolution in the Staging of Fear in the Alone in the Dark Series". In Perron, Bernard (ed.). Horror Video Games: Essays on the Fusion of Fear and Play. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. pp. 145–167. ISBN 9780786454792. page 149
- Reviewed: Antonio Cano
- Comment: first of two qpqs.

Improved to Good Article status by Gen. Quon (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 23:26, 27 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Alone in the Dark (1992 video game); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Promoted 21 May, nominated 27 May, so OK. Each body para. sourced. Earwig and manual checks look OK. Interesting and very substantial article. ALT0 is OK (the short writing time is interesting), but phrasing leads me to suggest consideration of small changes as in ALT0a; ALT1 is solid for a point of interest but grammatically flawed - consider small changes as in ALT1a; and ALT2 is also of some interest, though not all will get the director references. @Onegreatjoke: Thanks, mostly sound, and a good read. But only Alt0/0a meet the length criterion - even allowing for piping, ALT1/1a and ALT2 just seem too long. Maybe they can be worked on a bit? Best of luck, happy to finish review if this one area of concern can be addressed, or to approve just ALT0/0a. SeoR (talk) 20:22, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

@SeoR: What about this:

ALT0b: ... that the story for Infogrames' 1992 computer game Alone in the Dark was outlined by Hubert Chardot in just three days? Source: Ichbiah, Daniel (2009). La Saga des Jeux Vidéo [The Video Game Saga] (in French) (New ed.). Triel-sur-Seine, France: Éditions Pix'n Love. ISBN 9782918272021. Retrieved 15 May 2023 – via The Internet Archive. Page 153-154

Also, I apologize if I put this in the wrong spot.--Gen. Quon_[Talk] 15:29, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, that reads well. So, approving for Alt0b then. SeoR (talk) 22:38, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

@SeoR and Gen. Quon: I can't seem to find it, but I thought we have a rule that says that a person without an article (in this case, Hubert Chardot) should not be named in the hook. If you'd like, I can ping other DYK editors to see if they're aware of such a rule. Edge3 (talk) 22:50, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

@SeoR and Edge3: If that's the case, we could just cut the name and have the 'fun fact' be that the story was written in three days.--Gen. Quon_[Talk] 14:59, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Ok, so we'll go with ALT0c: "... that the story for Infogrames' 1992 computer game Alone in the Dark was outlined in just three days?" Edge3 (talk) 15:22, 5 July 2023 (UTC)