Linked Theory is Interlinked Media’s first channel. It makes long-form narrative films inside Minecraft, published on YouTube.
Long-form storytelling inside game worlds already moves 7.9 billion views a year. The audience is there. Nobody has to be convinced it exists.
The game is not the point and it is not the plan. It is where the audience for this kind of story already is, which makes it the cheapest place to prove that the system works before taking it anywhere else.
Measured at advertising rates alone the category is worth $24 million a year. Counted the way a production company counts revenue, with sponsorship and licensing included, it is closer to $79 million. The record inside it is 254 million views on a single film, and the median feature runs 72 minutes, so length is an asset rather than a penalty.
The target here is a one to five million dollar company. That is a small share of the smallest honest measurement above, so it does not need the market won or the largest channel beaten. It needs the system to work more than once.
Original stories filmed inside Minecraft. The next one runs forty minutes and is being shot and cut.
Shorts built out of worlds that already exist for the films, so one build serves two formats.
Hiring out of Texas A&M, so the written system gets run by people who did not write it.
Every stage a film passes through is being turned into something written down that someone else can run.
Find the world, write the story, build it inside the game engine, shoot it, cut it. Each of those is being given a written standard and a defined handoff to the next one, and each finished film is one full pass through the whole thing.
That is what turns it into a system rather than a streak. When one stage gets better, every film after it gets better, not only the next one.
The films come first, and the shorts are cut out of worlds the films already needed.
Short-form has its own written rulebook: how long a piece runs, what counts as a pass, and what the first three seconds have to accomplish.
Because the world already exists, a short costs a fraction of what it would cost to originate. That is the cheapest way to take more shots on goal without splitting the production line in two.
If someone who did not build this can produce to standard, the system is real.
The first hires come out of Texas A&M. They are trained on the written system rather than on anybody’s instinct, because instinct is the one thing that cannot be handed to a second team.
If they cannot produce to standard, then the system is still a person, and that gets fixed before anything scales.
If you want to work on this, email hello@interlinkedmedia.com with something you have made. That is the whole application.