The Future of Machinima

First of all, Next Generation’s print edition was one of the truly great game magazines. I think it’s long since toast. Anyway, they’re writing about Machinima. And that means Rooster Teeth. Writing about Machinima without Rooster Teeth is like trying to write sentences without vowels. Theoretically possible, but so impractical as to be futile.

The Future of Machinima

“I think that machinima begins the moment a player stops interfacing with a virtual world in the context of a game,” says Burns, when probed for a definition of the genre. “A videogame is simply an amazing piece of technology that displays a virtual space in realtime. The ‘game’ is the set of rules you are given to interact with that world. The moment you choose to stop interacting with that place by the rules—and to start exploring the world on your own terms—then the game has ended and machinima has begun.”

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