[game_preservation] More Retro Machinima (with Andrew raving about glossaries, oh yay)

[Devin Monnens]

So we would differentiate these from real-time video because RTV does not
use human players?
The reason I brought up blue screens is because if we had a modern
equivalent to Who Framed Roger Rabbit (say a sci fi war film with some guy
from Unreal in it). Roger Rabbit is animation, but it is not a fully
animated film.

I'm going to leave the rest of the defining to Henry for now as he's covered
more terrain than I have.

Regarding your glossary, I think such a book would be incredibly helpful,
especially if it is including technical terms used by artists and
programmers. Someone who is familiar with all the terms will be able to
communicate with fellow artists and programmers (something that seems to be
a problem in the industry as well as in education).

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


>  Oh, hold my own horses, my mini-glossary I did write a mini machinima

> definition for myself, I wonder if this fits. Again, I wanted to find

> examples (there should be a lot more blue links or references!) but not too

> bad re-reading it now for 2 paragraphs despite being a bit "meh" on the

> descriptive side of content. Note while I want to get pronounciations,

> alternative spellings etc. I've obviously not done it to any standard here

> ;)

>

> Just an example as it were.

>

> Machinima

>  *Pronounced:* "Ma-shin-e-ma"

>

> From the words "Machine", "Animation" and "Cinema", it is the description

> of a range of videos made from filming videogames. These sometimes are

> specially made for a game to explain some story (released separately from

> the game, so thus not a cutscene), or be a fully released online video of a

> games content and playthrough (such as Anachronox<http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Anachronox%22%20AND%20collection%3Aanimationandcartoons>).

>

>

> Most commonly they are fictional films, based sometimes on the original

> characters but often new ones, with their own plot and filming unrelated to

> the normal game. There are also music videos, films, and series of works

> rather then one off's, or series based on the original characters. Usually

> the "cast" is played by player avatars in the multiplayer mode of the game.

>

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