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MMOG Machinima

Posted by Zonk on from the machinima-from-beyond-the-looking-glass dept.

An Anonymous Reader wrote in to tell us about a Massively Multiplayer Machinima series entitled A Galaxy Far Away, made in Star Wars Galaxies. MMOGs are increasingly seeing use in Machinima productions and music videos, in works such as SWG's Fallen, WoW's Shutup and Dance, Dark Age of Camelot's Remember, and City of Heroes' Justice.

19 comments

  1. oops by portwojc · · Score: 5, Informative

    made in Star Wars Galaxies

    That should be Star Wars Battle Front

    1. Re:oops by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      <jedi>I sense a great cease and desist letter in their future.</jedi>
  2. Quality by Meagermanx · · Score: 1

    Not to dis the guys who did this, but it's no Red VS Blue, if you know what I mean.

    1. Re:Quality by biryokumaru · · Score: 1

      and red v blue wasnt mentioned in the article, and they practically invented the genre

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    2. Re:Quality by imr · · Score: 2, Informative

      mmog was the other important word of the news.

    3. Re:Quality by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      First off, RvB stopped being funny after episode 3, season 1.

      Now it's just a bunch of clowns playing Halo, which I have on my couch at any given time. I don't even have to cough up money to sponser the clowns on my couch.

      Secondly, machinima was invented long before Halo, the Xbox, or Roosterteeth. People were making better movies with Quake 1 many moons ago.

  3. And from FFXI... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And from FFXI, there was that machinima of someone killing all the people in Valkrum Dunes. Except you can't PVP in FFXI (Conquest doesn't count), so they had to train this level 50 mob onto the players instead.

    Funny as all hell. Only worthwhile thing ever to come out of that game.

    Unfortunately it appears that it's been removed from the 'net, I can't find it anywhere. :(

  4. Not... good? by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 1

    Not only is it from Battlefront which is in no way a MMOG, but it's.. it's not very good. It's.. Just really bad. I started watching, not even expecting something on the level of RvB.. thank god for that, because the comedy is more along the lines of Garfield: The movie.

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  5. if marvel were to do a mmorpg by imr · · Score: 1

    They would sue their users doing machinimas.

  6. Thriller! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


    Don't forget Second Life and the recently released remake of the Thriller video.

  7. More WoW links... by antdude · · Score: 1

    here.

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  8. Re:Not... good? by antdude · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it was dumb. I only saw episode 1. People, move along if you were expecting decent. It is not. :(

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  9. Another Piece by Sta7ic · · Score: 1

    There's also ClanBob's "Dreams in Digital" machinima.

    http://www.clanbob.net

  10. Machine cinema? What a cool combination. by Myself · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Do you know a lot about machinima, or are you interested enough to research its history, culture, present state, and future directions?

    Would you like to introduce other curious geeks to machinima?

    Are you unafraid of, or capable of drinking enough to be unafraid of, getting up in front of 20-50 of your peers to give a presentation?

    You should come present at Notacon! It's a conference about technology, community, art, culture, hacking, music, and you. The call for papers is currently open. What would you like to talk about?

  11. The key to humor... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    is to use the "F" word as often as possible, even if it makes absolutely no sense in the context you're using it in, or even obscures what you're actually trying to say.

    These "Galaxy Far Away" kids seem to be on the right track, but maybe they could just try to use it a little more...

    No?

    Fiddlesticks.

  12. Gnomevasion -- funny WoW video by antdude · · Score: 1

    Click here.

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  13. How to shut up and dance by flibuste · · Score: 1
    Can anyone point us to an article on how to have those World of Warcraft characters do all this funny things and how to record a whole sequence and not just a screenshot?

    WoW Interface commands don't do *that* much, do they?

    /dance
  14. Windspire Entertainment by AntipodeanJim · · Score: 1

    These guys have made a few very decent movies in SWG. My personal favourite so far is Fetts Vette.
    Check it out: http://www.windspireentertainment.com/.