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December 05, 2005
The Movies Game - First Educational Film?
I just came across this on Water Cooler Games, a posting (excerpt below) describing how a new video game called The Movies in which you play as a Hollywood movie studio executive with the ability to actually create movies and distribute them has been used to produce a film on the recent riots in France.
"I learned this morning about The French Democracy, a machinima film created with The Movies. The film deals with the recent riots in Paris' suburbs and seems to have been created by a French player. While some details are questionable (cops don't ask for passports but for I.D.'s) the film is a quite powerful example of the potential of The Movies. When The Sims was launched, some players started creating social commentary photo albums in order to tell stories of abuse. Technically, the quality of these videos is impressive"
When I first heard of this game in PC Zone several months ago, I suggested it could/would be used to produce inexpensive educational films and here's the first example I've found. It's consistent with Will Wright's (creator of The Sims) view that people creating their own content is very powerful and is the next trend in game creation (you can hear him discuss the "future of game content" from the Game Developers Conference here (you may have to register for free to access).
Posted by Ron Edwards at December 5, 2005 10:13 AM
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