Diary of a Camper is the first known example of machinima, the art of using real-time, virtual 3D environments, often game engines, to create animated films. It was created by United Ranger Films, then a subdivision of a popular group of video game players, or clan, known as the Rangers. The film was first released over the Internet as a non-interactive game demo file. It is built on the ability to record gameplay, which appeared earlier in id Software’s 1993 computer game Doom, and later in Quake’s successor, Quake 2.
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Diary of a Camper is the first known example of machinima, the art of using real-time, virtual 3D environments, often game engines, to create animated films. It was created by United Ranger Films, then a subdivision of a popular group of video game players, or clan, known as the Rangers. The film was first released over the Internet as a non-interactive game demo file. The story centers on a lone camper, a player waiting in a strategic location instead of seeking active battle, who faces five members of the Rangers clan in a deathmatch. It is built on the ability to record gameplay, which appeared earlier in id Software’s 1993 computer game Doom, and later in Quake’s successor, Quake 2. The video is considered one of the first examples of the use of text-based dialogue in a video game demo, instead of merely showing gameplay.
It has been called primitive, but acknowledge its importance in establishing video games as a medium for filmmaking, and in increasing use of the term “Machinima” in response to other films made using the same technology in the 1990s and early 2000s. The term was later used to refer to a number of other films, including “Quake 2” and “The Godfather”, which were made using Quake 2’s multiplayer multiplayer deathmatch mode, as well as “The Lord of the Rings” “Diary” was released on October 26, 1996, and was the first Quake-based film to be released in the U.S.
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