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Something else

Has anyone ever heard of Machinima? I remember reading about it a few months ago. It's where you take a game, such as Unreal Tournament of The Sims, and use it to create animated movies. Check it out @machinima.com, it might be fodder for discussion as well as a springboard for critique.

What happens when game narratives are translated into other kinds of narrative? With Tomb Raider, could always see Lara Croft onscreen, so in the translation, there are certain visual techniques that could be used to connect the game and the film. However, what about something like Doom? There is a film of this coming out. Does there necessarily have to be first-person shots in the film?

I'm sure there will be, but what I want to know is this: Does there have to be these first-person, POV shots for the film to be satisfying for those who have played the game?

Also, regarding Ms. Pacman: Anyone remember the cartoon for the game? Or the Pac-Man Cereal? If kids are eating the ghost/marshmallows and sugar-pop dots, does that make them Pac-Man? What if they eat the pac-man marshmallow? Does that make them ghosts?

Finally, what about the Pac-Man game where people actually became the Pac-Man, eating virtual dots on a real world overlay by walking through them? Again, specifics are fuzzy, but I think some kind of VR glasses were used.

Stuff I think about before class.

Anyone else get the impression that nobody really knows what's going on in the game world?

posted by Sue @ 5:03 PM