Online gaming documentaries
Posted on June 18, 2003 @ 10:51 in Games
Last week I discovered that there are a couple of independent projects trying to capture online gaming in documentary style. The projects I found mainly seem to focus on the role-playing variety of online gaming, such as Everquest. Still it's really good to see this kind of attention for games and gaming.
A short, but well-linked article at the BBC site provides some background information for a documentary that was recently released online: Modern Day Gamer by Simon Bysshe.
Another online available documentary is the (untitled?) EverQuest Players LFG film by Nathan Bramble. It's available as a Real stream, but as I detailed before, you can capture those if you want to keep the film around as reference material.
Then there is the Avatars Offline documentary by Daniel Liatowitsch, which you can order for $25. Unfortunately the order form is not secure, so I haven't made up my mind whether I want to take that risk.
Last is the still running MMORPG Documentary Film Project, produced and directed by Tracy Spaight. This looks like an interesting project and they have people like Julian Dibbell and Sherry Turkle on the advisory board.
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