Pitch Dictionary by pitch.dog
Genre families · Working

Procedural

Also called: case procedural, procedural format

ELI5

A genre or format whose recurring pleasure comes largely from a professional process applied to new cases or problems.

Used in conversation

“The pitch describes the project as procedural; the scene examples need to prove that promise.”

Definition

A genre or format whose recurring pleasure comes substantially from a professional process applied to new cases or problems.

Here “Procedural” means: A genre or format whose recurring pleasure comes substantially from a professional process applied to new cases or problems. Other meanings are stored as separate sense entries and must be chosen explicitly.

Pitch context

Use this when explaining how the story works on the page or across the finished screen experience.

Why it matters: Helps describe who the project follows, where it lives and what kind of experience it promises.

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