Space Quest Machinima.

[Tawmis]

First - let's tackle "What the hell is Machinima?" Machinima, in short, is when you use a pre-rendered environment (say, like a computer game) - to make a movie, skit, music video, etc. So in short - it's using a video game to make a silly skit of some kind. The most popular is "RedvsBlue" (google them if you want). Well, Adam and I had started our own called "Neverending Nights" (NeN Youtube Channel or NeN website)... Well Machinima has always been about using newer games - like HALO 1, 2, and 3, or Sims 2 or Sims 3 or other such games... Well one day while filming NeN, I decided I wanted to try it with an old game. I was originally going to go with LSL - but LSL changed so much for LSL1 to LSL2 to LSL3 (graphically) - so I went with something that stayed pretty close to the same - which was SQ. SQ1, SQ2, and SQ3 were all pretty close graphically.

So anyway, here's two episodes (as far as I got) of utter silliness. I had no idea where I was going. Just wrote up two quick episodes to test it out. All the voices provided in this are done by yours truly!

Episode 01: The Red Pill (link to Youtube Video)

and

Episode 02: As Long As There's No... (link to Youtube Video)

Enjoy the stupidity!

[DeadPoolX]

First - let's tackle "What the hell is Machinima?" Machinima, in short, is when you use a pre-rendered environment (say, like a computer game) - to make a movie, skit, music video, etc. So in short - it's using a video game to make a silly skit of some kind.

That would've been my first question!

[Tawmis]

First - let's tackle "What the hell is Machinima?" Machinima, in short, is when you use a pre-rendered environment (say, like a computer game) - to make a movie, skit, music video, etc. So in short - it's using a video game to make a silly skit of some kind.

That would've been my first question!

Heh. Figured as much. I figure I may or may not have blabbed about Neverending Nights, so folks here might or might not know what Machinima is.

[DeadPoolX]

First - let's tackle "What the hell is Machinima?" Machinima, in short, is when you use a pre-rendered environment (say, like a computer game) - to make a movie, skit, music video, etc. So in short - it's using a video game to make a silly skit of some kind.

That would've been my first question!

Heh. Figured as much. I figure I may or may not have blabbed about Neverending Nights, so folks here might or might not know what Machinima is.

Is it just me or does "Machinima" sound like a Japanese surname?

[Tawmis]

First - let's tackle "What the hell is Machinima?" Machinima, in short, is when you use a pre-rendered environment (say, like a computer game) - to make a movie, skit, music video, etc. So in short - it's using a video game to make a silly skit of some kind.

That would've been my first question!

Heh. Figured as much. I figure I may or may not have blabbed about Neverending Nights, so folks here might or might not know what Machinima is.

Is it just me or does "Machinima" sound like a Japanese surname?

Heh - it's pronounced (depending on who you ask) - Ma-Shin-Uh-Muh.

[Maiandra]

I figure I may or may not have blabbed about Neverending Nights...

Are you kidding? You've "blabbed" about Neverending Nights so many times even I got over my laziness and watched it. Although it may have been on other forums than this one.

I'll have a look at those above as well.

[Tawmis]

I figure I may or may not have blabbed about Neverending Nights...

Are you kidding? You've "blabbed" about Neverending Nights so many times even I got over my laziness and watched it. Although it may have been on other forums than this one.

I'll have a look at those above as well.

I figured as much... Since I am pretty much an advertising whore.

[Jules]

Yes you are! And I love it! (with my Popcorn game)

[Tawmis]

Yes you are! And I love it! (with my Popcorn game)

I do need to make another round of pimping that out again.

[Tawmis]

Actually I found my original scripts...
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ROGER:
Yawns. Ah man. It can’t already be time to go to work? I feel like I just went to sleep…

ROGER:
You know there’s got to be more to this life than being a crummy janitor for this ship. There’s got to be something better out there for me…

Alarm on watch.

ROGER:
Oh crap! Not again! This is like the 10th time I’ve done that… today!

Might as well see who the heck is on the com-link.


BOSS:
Roger Wilco, tell me you did not just lose another broom! That’s like the 12th one today!

ROGER:
10th one actually, sir.

BOSS:
ROGER WILCO! Do not correct me! Now listen up! We just got a waste disposal ship in… and it had a rough landing. It would seem it’s contents have spilled within the ship! And guess who I am assigning to clean it? That’s right, Wilco – YOU.

ROGER:
Thanks there, chief. Appreciate you always looking out for me and making sure I’ve got things to do. Like clean up a waste ship’s interiors… like I don’t have anything better to do in this life. Okay… so maybe I don’t – but still! You’ll see, one day – I am going to do something great! Pause. Who the heck am I even talking to?

ROGER:
Decontamination … such a … ouch … painful process.

Well, might as well jump into the standard MCSM-2000 Space Outfit. Ah! Quick change artist! And of course, I can’t forget my effects.

ROGER:
You know… no matter how many times I ride through the tube transport… it still makes me feel sick. You’d think that here we are in the year 4190 – they could develop a method of transport that wouldn’t make my stomach feel like it’s being left behind when this thing launches. I mean, it’s not like I am in any hurt to clean dumped waste inside some space craft…

(Whoa!)


ROGER:
Yup. Still not used to that thing. And – holy! – what a wonderful smell I’ve discovered. If someone came in that thing – they’re braver than I thought. Oh well. Another day another buckazoid, I suppose. Not like anything exciting is ever going to happen in my life. It’s my lot in life… to be miserable. Just once… I wish something exciting would happen… like I go inside the ship and see it’s not a waste ship, but a cover for something far more sinister…

Inside Ship: Hey! Who are you? Urpmh!


SLUDGE:

Well, well, well. Someone decided to snoop into my business did they? (Jabba Laugh.) Well that was a mistake, human! You see, I used the waste on the ship to cloak the smell of my clones! You see, one by one, I shall replace everyone of significant importance, and they shall follow my command! Soon, Sludge Vohaul will rule all of the world! And you were the only one close to figuring it out! But now, I will just ship you off to Pota, to be a slave in the mines – so you will be mining minerals needed for my quest of World Domination!

ROGER:
This so can not be happening to me. Any minute now, my alarm is going to go off and I am going to wake up complaining how I didn’t get any sleep, and how I hate my crummy little life, my crummy little job, and that I wish something – well, something like this – would happen in my life! See, all that complaining is effecting my dreams! That’s it! That’s what’s happening here!

ROGER:
Ohhh… I hurt way too much to be dead… and why haven’t I waken up? Tell me this isn’t real…
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And the second episode:

ROGER:

Man! I can’t believe I am still alive! Good thing this hairy little monkey here broke my fall. Of course, he’s not looking so good right now. Not sure his face is supposed to be that color… being a monkey person thing and all.

Let’s check if there’s anything in the ship worth saving. Or maybe I can use their radio to call and warn them about Sludge Vohaul’s clone army idea! And they can come rescue me and I will be a hero – without having done much to be a hero! What a great idea! And look at this! There’s the lever for the com-link. Wait. Hold in. No. That’s some kind of organ. Ew. Yeah. The com-link is about as dead as the monkey laying on it.

I better see if I can find another way off Pota. Got to keep my heroic wits about me! My instincts are alive! I am – WHOA!

Where the heck am I? What’s that sound? Why do I have to pee suddenly?

Holy! An underwater cavern! Hey, this is pretty cool. Okay. Not a problem. I know how to swim from all those times those bullies at the Academy would throw me in the pool! Just got to dive in and –

WHOA!

That was is FRIGGIN’ COLD!

Oh man.

This sucks.

All right. It’s now or never Wilco.

Hey… this ain’t so bad… once you get used to it… you know… once the chilling water pretty much numbs your entire body… basically making you a floating icicle…

As long as there’s no whirlpool or something at the end of all this… and it just leads to the other side of the shore… everything will be just peachy…

Oh man…

Could this get any worse?

WHOA!

Weeeeee!

URMPH!!

Well… I suddenly have a new appreciation for what gets flushed down the toilet… been a janitor for most of my life… and never experienced that before… and don’t care to experience anytime soon…

Well at least I haven’t encountered any of the planet’s wild native animalistic kingdom… I have that going for me, at least.

You’re kidding me right?

Any minute now I have got to wake up…

I suppose I could wait here until it gets dizzy and falls over…

Or not.

Maybe it will leave?

Or… it could just be waiting for me to get out of the water, which doesn’t seem like the best of ideas, really…

I’ve got to distract it! Ah ha! My handy dandy Cubix Rube!

Somehow I would have never really thought of that… if this were some kind of video game, I would have probably called the hint line for that one…

What the heck is this now?

It looks like a mailbox?

Out here? In the middle of nowhere?

Oh you have got to be kidding me! How the heck do I have mail here? Who even knows I am here? And if they know I’m here why haven’t they sent someone to come get me! Bills… bills… of course. All the bills find me…

Okay… Well, that’s great. Might as well head back –

Er. No. Scratch that. The Cubix Rube is probably no longer holding that creature’s attention…

I guess I could just… uh… jump.

URMPH!

You know, I think I’ve seen it all now. An evil master mind using clones to replace important people… I’ve been “flushed” down a stream through one of nature’s toilets… nearly got shredded by some wild beast that spins around in circles… Not sure what else could even be waiting for me around here. As long as there’s no … man eating plant with a big pulsating brain… now that would freak me out.

Okay. I’m officially freaked out.

[Tawmis]

Datadog's amazing King's Quest II Made Easy! made me seek this thread out and bump it!

[Datadog]

Hurray!

[Tawmis]

Cleaning up the General Chatter area (going through old posts) - and moved this over to the Space Quest section of the forum!

[Rudy]

Cleaning up the General Chatter area (going through old posts) - and moved this over to the Space Quest section of the forum!

Thanks, Roger

[Collector]

Cleaning up the General Chatter area (going through old posts) - and moved this over to the Space Quest section of the forum!

Thanks, Roger

Don't disturb the sanitation engineer.