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Documentary about Professional Gaming
Simon Bysshe writes "My name is Simon Bysshe, I'm 22 & am currently studying film at the Bournemouth Arts Institute in the UK. For the last 3 months I've been working on a unique new freely downloadable film about the advent of professional gaming [there's also a BitTorrent mirror via GameTab]. The main purpose of the documentary 'Modern Day Gamer 2' is to ask whether we will ever see gaming become a mainstream spectator sport. The film features the UK based Four Kings Wolfenstein team as they compete at the Quakecon gaming event in Dallas Texas. The film also features interviews with John Romero, Sujoy Roy (iGamesUK), Paul 'Locki' Wedgwood (Splash Damage) & many other industry/gaming figures. This is the sequel to my original documentary which focused on the growth of gaming as a sociable hobby & received over 50,000 downloads worldwide. Running time: 17minutes 47seconds. Filesize : 157MB. Format: WMV."
"Professional Gamer?" What, they are state licensed?
But seriously, with all that press coverage, and repetitive stress injuries, expect to see PG's form basic organizational structures, like unions, licensing boards, nickname boards!, and stuff, before developers/computer programmers ever develop just one of those.. sheesh!
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On the other hand, you have to consider that the skills you develop aren't useful for just one game. If you had played Doom for months, you'd be better at Quake when it came out, then you'd practice on that and you would be better at the next game, and so on. Even unrelated games can help, by improving your coordination, strategies, etc.
"The main purpose of the documentary 'Modern Day Gamer 2' is to ask whether we will ever see gaming become a mainstream spectator sport."
Ahem, JAPAN.
Heck, we'll even throw S.Korea in there.
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To avoid an unnecessary page load on their server, here's a direct link to the bittorrent version.
I used to play Desert Combat a lot a while back. I started playing with a clan (to get the whole 'teamplay' experience) who were involved in gaming league. During these games, there would be two spectators present, one on either team. These two specs would do a play by play of the game, both in contact with each other at the same time, and they would shoutcast these matches to the masses. These broadcasts also had a slight time delay to avoid cheating by either team.
One of these shoutcast groups is Team Sports Network you can listen to live games, or download past matches.
In case of slashdoting here is a still of the John Romero interview.
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Hell, Korea has computer games televised. Japan does too. Spectating videogames seems to have caught on there, why not here?
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You have edited his comment so that it seems he is saying that it doesn't take effort to play games at the professional level.
This is not even close to what he wrote. Since you seem determined to misrepresent the author's actual sentiment (or maybe you just misread it and didn't realize that your edit grossly distorts what he wrote?), here is the complete thought:
(Emphasis mine.) Please, read it again. You will see that the author stated that IT IS NOT THE CASE THAT PEOPLE ENJOY VIDEO GAMES VICARIOUSLY. The author does NOT state that it is not the case that it takes effort to play at the professional level.
Please, read the comment you are replying to next time. Slashdot thanks you.
Hmm... maybe Linux on SPARC, or Linux on PPC, or for that matter, Linux on anything !x86. For that matter, anything !Linux on !x86.
You might not know this but 3ivx jsut released a 2 pass mp4 encoder on Tuesday. When using the proper settings, 3ivx creates pretty sweet video with good quality/size results.
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I know previour reports indicated otherwise but the reviewers didn't use the proper compression settings.
They also have an mp2 transcoder called Diva.
Http://www.3ivx.com
http://www.3ivx.com/downlo
Enjoy.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
I'm sorry I am going to have to get some of those pinhead moderators to waste points on me here as I hear crybaby gamers all the time whine and moan. (Usually over things they don't understand because they can't stop playing long enough to read and research.)
Gaming is *NOT* a sport!! Shit, you waste away hours leading to weeks of your life twitching only a few muscles for a digital score...sporty as a Gremlin next to a Porsche. The use of the term "professional" when speaking about a gamer is just sickening and demeaning to *REAL* professionals like the programmers who coded the game or the Network engineers at the ISP who maintain connections so the _game_ can be played. Tournaments are great, but lets put things in perspective. If you win a ribbon at your local or even state fair for your chili, do you think that gives you the right to start putting yourself on the same level as a real professional such as Emril Lagasse?
I love to spend a good 3 hours playing an online game, but in keeping touch with reality it's just a game. When I'm done thats it, I don't try to make it more than what it really is to compensate for a critical lacking in my life. Personally, I would not watch this sort of stuff online or in person with free admission, free food, and free beer. Strikes me kinda like watching golf...you have to be the right kind of person.
-1 Overrated (Too many big words for me to comprehend)