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EVE Online Developers Help Player Make Fan Movie
Enfors writes "CCP, developers of the sci-fi MMOG EVE Online, continue to impress with their open attitude towards players. In a thread on the EVE forums, an EVE Online player named Dire Lauthris describes difficulties he was having while making a fan movie that would illustrate a portion of EVE Online's background story. To make it 'historically correct,' he contacted CCP, the developers, to check on some facts. Instead of threatening to sue him for infringing on their intellectual property, they ended up inviting him to their offices to set him up with better movie-making software than the one he was using. Also, they had an employee record the narrator voice for his movie. The movie is now finished and available online. Massively is running a related article about storytelling in EVE."
... I'd really like it of gamers/customers had the ability to take back rights of abandonware or games and
properties that are just being sat on, and also have their rights expanded as investors/co-owners in some capacity because right now the indivduals rights are being abused willy nilly.
I would have loved to see what would have happened to the fan made chrono trigger resurrection if Square had not threatened them:
http://www.opcoder.com/projects/chrono/
Can't wait until I can make a decent movie using nothing but Second Life / Eve Online characters, or even better... when someone with actual creativity can. This is my favorite machinima yet... by far. http://www.vimeo.com/609147
We're getting there!
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Pretty cool. Someday I'd like to see an entire movie done in machinima that uses different games depending on the scenes. Something with space battles filmed in EVE, ground battles in an RTS, and then some close up action and everything else using an FPS engine (source is pretty good for machinima). Would be neat.
The world you experience is only a close approximation of reality.
So like some people on planet A may or may not have bombed something on Planet B. People planet B build a fleet and go to kick the ass of Planet A. Planet A is caught by ?suprise? but sneaks out a remnant fleet to go kick planet B's ass? But they fail. So they crash their ship into Planet B killing millions of civilians and ?helping people back on Planet A somehow escape?"
I don't get it. What happened in this movie? I give it a C- for clarity.
I wonder how much help could I get to make a fan movie of "playboy, the mansion".
It's a well known fact that GMs bend over backwards to help EVE Players..
Just google for -> BoB EVE GM
It's already been done in EVE.
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=783871
While the video linked in the story is very good, Clear Skies (linked in parent) is an awesome experience. Changed how I think about machinima.
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http://www.eveonline.com/download/videos/Default.asp?a=download&vid=229
It should be no mystery why CCP would help a fan who was taking the game's back story seriously. Eve's back story makes that of Magic: The Gathering look like "The Brothers Karamazov."
Now, I'm a huge Eve fan -- huge -- but the whole set-up, like that of the great tabletop space opera game that preceded it, "Battletech," is merely a balsa wood framework designed to prop up as many reasons for different races to be at war with each other as possible. Eve is to Science Fiction what Everquest is to fantasy.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
nothing happens. very slowly. then there are some shots of space ships fighting.
the *good* thing about this is unlike most of the awful "made" stuff on youtube it doesnt have a 3 minute title sequence.. you know where you get one name on screen at a time and its the same bloody name...
starring
jim scrote
written by
jim scrote
directed by
jim scrote
etc etc etc ad nausem
A company with a sensible attitude that realises the value of "free" advertising using their customer base, not shafting them at the first opportunity!
You might be able to make a movie but the best stories are the one that one guy thinks up and makes. Committees do not make things great. Please do not hold Linux up as an example of otherwise. Linux is a collection of successful programs, each of which is run by a benevolent dictator of some kind.
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Let me be the first to say that I, for one, welcome our new robot hobbyist-community-collaborators.
I hope they will be handsomely and visibly rewarded for this move---preferably with a positive dollar amount attached to the reward---such that the OMG-DOLL4RZ corporate leaders might follow their example, and in the long term change their mind about a thing or two.
Umm yeah great work on the video and wonderful job by CCP to actively encourage and help but...
'grinded into action' - Um no, not even close, "ground into action" would be more correct, jeez
come on people don't let the new technology turn you into idiots! grammar is what separates you from fools and buffoons. You have a brain for a reason USE IT!
a 7 minute clip is now refered to as a movie
Look at the "Eve Never Fades" trailer (halfway down this page).
That was made by a fan who, IIRC, was given a high-end rig to make it on, and i assume someone got the rights / permission from JunkieXL to use that song. I seem to remember the creator being someone who'd made a bunch of movies that impressed everyone, and was thusly equipped to make the trailer, but that's where my recall of the facts might get hazy.
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an eyestrain tale.
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I applaud the Eve gang supporting its fan base.
Unfortunately, the Eve UI remains the worst I've seen in any game made in the last 20 years. You'd have to pay me to play this thing (see Worst IT Jobs).
Furthermore, while a back-story is nice, its rather difficult to be part of a story with ships and voice-overs. Eve still doesn't let you get out of your spaceship, still doesn't let you even see around your ship, you are your spaceship, its about the most aseptic stage to ever try to create a "story" unless you've got the power of Pixar behind you.