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[Archive for August, 2007]

Moviesandbox goes crayons

Posted by fiezi

After a nice and busy weekend at the Leipzig Games Convention, i am very happy to announce that Moviesandbox is now available in version 1370 and with tutorials! Video tutorials that is. If you have been a fan of crayons before, you probably like the one big new addition to the show – instant painting.
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State of Play V 19-22 August in Singapore

Posted by Erik

Well SOP V was ostensibly on virtual worlds, regulations, and the sheer tragedy that there is so far little or even no infrastructure (read: bureaucracy and litigation) that lawyers can get involved in. However, there was also just a touch of “virtual world” machinima, movies from there.com and that streaming software that just won’t [...]

Gamecasts are machinima, too

Posted by Michael

It seems gamecasts are turning into profitable enterprises these days. Or at least they are trying to. I have to admit, I was always a bit skeptical about things like Unreal TV or Half Life TV. I want to grab the controls and play if I have the time and chance. But it seems others [...]

Why no adaptations?

Posted by Michael

Why are there so relatively few adaptations of literary and/or classic pieces in machinima? To answer that question, I returned to an older discussion. Some time ago we discussed here what the most innovative machinima films might be. Hugh Hancock’s Ozymandias came up – an adaptation of a poem of all [...]