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check it out: the first custom movie i've bothered to put any effort into, and i'm fairly pleased with the results :)
clicky (http://www.hlj.me.uk/Dogs%20Of%20This%20Parish.wmv)


any opinions? be kind since it is a first try ;) :)
its a horror flick from the 80s btw (and it gets interesting after the first minute of set-up or so...) no voices cos a) not particularly needed (simple-as-hell plot) and b) lazy. also there are quite a few continuity errors :D

took over 11 years (game time) to film lol, and my entire cast and crew... i just left the game running on fast forward while i went and had my shower :p





as for a more general note, anyone else play The Movies? its well worth getting if you either enjoy managment sims, sim games in general (its a fair bit like The Sims itself), or have ever felt the need to make your own movie epic (and have the creativity and - importantly - patience to do so)

To be honest, I wasn't too impressed with the tycoon part of the game. It's fun at first, but as soon as you have more 12 or so actors/directors it becomes a bit confusing. I was always lacking enough staff/extras/etc. for my productions because there were never enough people to hire around, even though I had lots of money. They should have concentrated more on this Hollywood glamour thing I think.

It's a nice game, but not that innovative as I hoped. The make-your-own-movie-feature is nice though.

To be honest, I wasn't too impressed with the tycoon part of the game. It's fun at first, but as soon as you have more 12 or so actors/directors it becomes a bit confusing. I was always lacking enough staff/extras/etc. for my productions because there were never enough people to hire around, even though I had lots of money. They should have concentrated more on this Hollywood glamour thing I think.

It's a nice game, but not that innovative as I hoped. The make-your-own-movie-feature is nice though.
yeah i'm finding something similar. the managment side of things is too easy (to make money), but its hard/confusing to actually run your studio... which makes the ease with which you make money all the more silly.
plus, once you get to the late 90's, there doesn't seem that much else to research/do other than make your (aging) staff happy (also too easy) and churn out more and more movies... entertaining but in no way challenging.

but the movie making thing is cool and i sadly ignored it for the first week of having the game or so... just getting into fiddling about with it properly now :)


got any movies to share with us then? ;)

i enjoyed it. nice fight scene. so suspenseful :)

i enjoyed it. nice fight scene. so suspenseful :)
thanks :D
:P

yeah i'm finding something similar. the managment side of things is too easy (to make money), but its hard/confusing to actually run your studio... which makes the ease with which you make money all the more silly.
plus, once you get to the late 90's, there doesn't seem that much else to research/do other than make your (aging) staff happy (also too easy) and churn out more and more movies... entertaining but in no way challenging.

but the movie making thing is cool and i sadly ignored it for the first week of having the game or so... just getting into fiddling about with it properly now :)


Another problem I had was that the studio lot was so small. I always had to tear down some sets to build new ones.


got any movies to share with us then? ;)

No, I uninstalled it completely because I needed disk space. I need another harddrive I guess.

Nice movie btw. - but it's a bit slow in the beginning. Maybe you should take it to the edit room and shorten some of those first scenes. The fight in the wood could be a bit faster too.

Interesting sidenote: it seems that if you upload your movies to the Lionhead site, they gain rights over your movies. Read here (http://www.secretlair.com/index.php?/clickableculture/entry/the_moviesuser_created_content/) for more information.

LMAO at the rocket launcher

Another problem I had was that the studio lot was so small. I always had to tear down some sets to build new ones.


amen.


No, I uninstalled it completely because I needed disk space. I need another harddrive I guess.
fair enough

Nice movie btw. - but it's a bit slow in the beginning. Maybe you should take it to the edit room and shorten some of those first scenes. The fight in the wood could be a bit faster too.
yeah i wanted to pick it up at the beginning but i couldn't be bothered to re-move all the sound effect cues after i'd put them in (and already moved them about a dozen times or so :mad: ...another annoying niggle!)

Interesting sidenote: it seems that if you upload your movies to the Lionhead site, they gain rights over your movies. Read here (http://www.secretlair.com/index.php?/clickableculture/entry/the_moviesuser_created_content/) for more information.
really? hmm not gonna be doing that too much then :(
i haven't posted up any there yet cos they'll remove movies that use copyrighted music in them, and i don't make any of my custom movies without (at least some) decent/real/non-game music :p

Ha! That is awesome Pure Metal. I HAVE to get that game!

Man that sucks. Poor zombie. I wanted him to fuck up all those bastards.

Bah! My media player is crocked - it's all in psycadelic colours
... unless it's supposed to be like that?

LMAO at the rocket launcher
:D every home should have one :P

Man that sucks. Poor zombie. I wanted him to fuck up all those bastards.
the zombie was a facist, it just didn't come out in the movie too well. he owned a number of shoe factories and payed his workers awful wages, and made them walk to work too. he had to go ;)

Ha! That is awesome Pure Metal. I HAVE to get that game!
thanks, and do! :)

Bah! My media player is crocked - it's all in psycadelic colours
... unless it's supposed to be like that?
no, but i'm intending to make a cool psycadelic 60s flick at some point :)

Oh Peter Molyneux, is there any game you can make that isn't a TOTAL letdown?

Music is out of place.

Oh Peter Molyneux, is there any game you can make that isn't a TOTAL letdown?

He did the one with the thing, right?:confused:

Music is out of place.
yeah. *knows*

*is lazy* ;)

what game is that???

what game is that???
The Movies. www.themoviesgame.com (*is not advertising other games, is just answering a question*)

He did the one with the thing, right?:confused:
he's the Black & White dude. disappointment supreme.
he's done a million other great games though (none of which spring to mind though :()

not to be confused with Will Wright who did the Sims and Sim City etc (i often confuse em)

he's the Black & White dude. disappointment supreme.
he's done a million other great games though (none of which spring to mind though :()

not to be confused with Will Wright who did the Sims and Sim City etc (i often confuse em)

Ah, that guy.

B&W was a bit cack.

check it out: the first custom movie i've bothered to put any effort into, and i'm fairly pleased with the results :)
clicky (http://www.hlj.me.uk/Dogs%20Of%20This%20Parish.wmv)


any opinions? be kind since it is a first try ;) :)
its a horror flick from the 80s btw (and it gets interesting after the first minute of set-up or so...) no voices cos a) not particularly needed (simple-as-hell plot) and b) lazy. also there are quite a few continuity errors :D

took over 11 years (game time) to film lol, and my entire cast and crew... i just left the game running on fast forward while i went and had my shower :p

as for a more general note, anyone else play The Movies? its well worth getting if you either enjoy managment sims, sim games in general (its a fair bit like The Sims itself), or have ever felt the need to make your own movie epic (and have the creativity and - importantly - patience to do so)

It's praise of a sort... :) It reminded me very much of (Season 2-ish) Buffy... the zombie, the cheesy martial arts, the Giles-like Preacher who rushes in... only to get bashed senseless, the unkillable-by-weapons-forged badguy, the rocket-launcher finale... etc.

I may have to obtain the game at some point.

I didn't get to see the ending because the feed flopped out, but I'm guessing that it involved a rocket launcher.

yeah i wanted to pick it up at the beginning but i couldn't be bothered to re-move all the sound effect cues after i'd put them in (and already moved them about a dozen times or so ...another annoying niggle!)
Pff, you aughtta try it in a real film. Ugh, ugh I say.

The metal song in the middle that spans so much makes the whole thing feel a bit more like a music video (ala Thriller) than a film unto itself. Though I like the Kung Fu Zombie, that's a nice touch.

You had some good camera moves in there. Pretty cool game. Doesn't play well on Macs it looks like. Which is okay, I knew I wasn't getting games on this when I bought it. I need my computer to do more important things...wish I could play that game though.,,

It's praise of a sort... :) It reminded me very much of (Season 2-ish) Buffy... the zombie, the cheesy martial arts, the Giles-like Preacher who rushes in... only to get bashed senseless, the unkillable-by-weapons-forged badguy, the rocket-launcher finale... etc.

I may have to obtain the game at some point.
lol yay! i love buffy, and especially the early series :)
that wasn't intentional, but i'm gonna take it as praise (thank you) :D

I didn't get to see the ending because the feed flopped out, but I'm guessing that it involved a rocket launcher.


Pff, you aughtta try it in a real film. Ugh, ugh I say.

The metal song in the middle that spans so much makes the whole thing feel a bit more like a music video (ala Thriller) than a film unto itself. Though I like the Kung Fu Zombie, that's a nice touch.

You had some good camera moves in there. Pretty cool game. Doesn't play well on Macs it looks like. Which is okay, I knew I wasn't getting games on this when I bought it. I need my computer to do more important things...wish I could play that game though.,,
i can only imagine doing it with real film :eek:
i mean, the tiny bit of real video editing i do is pain-in-the-arse enough to make a (half decent) 5 minute short vid :p
what kind of real film editing have you been involved in, out of curiosity?

and the metal song in the middle probably was a bit OTT, but it was what "inspired" me to make a horror movie in the first place... i've been gunning after (and working on) a cops n' robbers 70s style action movie for a while but this was easier and quicker to make so i did this one first :)


(shame about the mac thing... cos this game really is worth getting, and thats coming from someone whos been generally disillusioned with and skeptical about videogames for the last few years, too)

(shame about the mac thing... cos this game really is worth getting, and thats coming from someone whos been generally disillusioned with and skeptical about videogames for the last few years, too)

That's a sentiment I hear more and more often on the internet. People are getting tired of Return of the Sequel: Part II, half-baked attempts of innovation and mindless hyping campaigns.

I find myself spending more and more time reading about gaming culture instead of playing games. What was the last game that really impressed me? Can't even say. Vice City perhaps (hadn't played GTA III before).

lol yay! i love buffy, and especially the early series :)
that wasn't intentional, but i'm gonna take it as praise (thank you) :D


Ha ha... it was intended as praise... but some people get all offended when you tell them their artistry reminds you of something else.... (A good friend who used to have a band would get MOST offended at such suggestions).

But, of course, Buffy ROCKS.

I play the game but i havent made my own film yet. The problem is there are never enough people around to hire. and the lot is too small, can you ever get a bigger one? Hell, they didnt have these problems in theme park, its like theyve stepped back ten years. and the framerate sucks.

I still love it though

That's a sentiment I hear more and more often on the internet. People are getting tired of Return of the Sequel: Part II, half-baked attempts of innovation and mindless hyping campaigns.

I find myself spending more and more time reading about gaming culture instead of playing games. What was the last game that really impressed me? Can't even say. Vice City perhaps (hadn't played GTA III before).
vice city was great (not much of an improvement over III but still, was good). similarly, san andreas was quite good and featured a few good gameplay advances, but mostly games nowadays seem to concentrate on the graphics and leave gameplay to an afterthought :(

i miss the old days of sam & max hit the road and the like :D


Ha ha... it was intended as praise... but some people get all offended when you tell them their artistry reminds you of something else.... (A good friend who used to have a band would get MOST offended at such suggestions).

But, of course, Buffy ROCKS.
yeah i understand that, but if my little piece-of-crap movie reminds you of something thats actually good (like buffy) then that can only be a good thing in my eyes :)

Pretty entertaining, I liked the look of the zombie and the knife fight/kung-fu was cool.

I was disappointed that there was not more gore, I wanted to see gallons of blood :(

You might wanna work on your pacing, it's a little stilited, I think the movie could afford to be quite a bit shorter.

The reveal of the zombie at the beginning works a little against your favour by being not scary at all, it's more like "oh look, there's a zombie" then "HOLY %^*!! It's a ZOMBIE!" If you get my meaning.

Tighter camerawork would have been nicer too, can you do close-ups in that game?

Also the music might need some reworking.

Sorry, I'm a niggly film student prick who has just finished a large horror piece myself, thus I'm being judgemental to work out my own failings. ;)

Pretty entertaining, I liked the look of the zombie and the knife fight/kung-fu was cool.

I was disappointed that there was not more gore, I wanted to see gallons of blood :(

You might wanna work on your pacing, it's a little stilited, I think the movie could afford to be quite a bit shorter.

The reveal of the zombie at the beginning works a little against your favour by being not scary at all, it's more like "oh look, there's a zombie" then "HOLY %^*!! It's a ZOMBIE!" If you get my meaning.

Tighter camerawork would have been nicer too, can you do close-ups in that game?

Also the music might need some reworking.

Sorry, I'm a niggly film student prick who has just finished a large horror piece myself, thus I'm being judgemental to work out my own failings. ;)
thanks for the advice and i'll be taking that onboard for the next flic i make... but i'm not trying to make a blockbuster here :p
i'm still pretty happy with crap :D

thanks for the advice and i'll be taking that onboard for the next flic i make... but i'm not trying to make a blockbuster here :p
i'm still pretty happy with crap :D Hey, that's what the 80's were all about! :D

Hey, that's what the 80's were all about! :D
yeah... it was intentional *shiftyeyes*

well at least my style is accurate :p

lol yay! i love buffy, and especially the early series :)
that wasn't intentional, but i'm gonna take it as praise (thank you) :D


i can only imagine doing it with real film :eek:
i mean, the tiny bit of real video editing i do is pain-in-the-arse enough to make a (half decent) 5 minute short vid :p
what kind of real film editing have you been involved in, out of curiosity?

and the metal song in the middle probably was a bit OTT, but it was what "inspired" me to make a horror movie in the first place... i've been gunning after (and working on) a cops n' robbers 70s style action movie for a while but this was easier and quicker to make so i did this one first :)


(shame about the mac thing... cos this game really is worth getting, and thats coming from someone whos been generally disillusioned with and skeptical about videogames for the last few years, too)
My degree is in Film and Digital Media with a concetration in production. I had to make a few films in school and sound editing was one of the things that took me fooooooorrrrrrrrreeeeeeeevvvvvvvveeeeeerrrrrr. I also edit the docs that I work on covering dirt track racers. I don't do much sound there though, as the producer usually uses wall to wall music.

Good job, but who the hell keeps rocket launchers in their kitchen?

:eek: :eek: :eek:

what is that awsome heavy metal in the middle??? I must know!

Good job, but who the hell keeps rocket launchers in their kitchen?

What, you mean you don't? :eek:

What, you mean you don't? :eek:

Oh aye, a rocket launcher is pretty good for starting a fire on that barbeque set when it simply refuses to light. The backblast that is. And sometimes, when you need to crack that darn shell of a lobster for preparation, sometimes, a hammer just won't do. :p

I thought it pretty decent for a 1st effort. The Rocket Launcher that just happened to be on the floor was the kitchen was a nice touch. :)

Good effort, keep it up. You'll be George Lucasing before you know it. :cool:

That game looks kickass. The only thing missing from that movie is tits and lesbian sex. I'm guessing they aren't an option though. I'll buy it anyway :p

:eek: :eek: :eek:

what is that awsome heavy metal in the middle??? I must know!

The song is What Doesn't Die by Anthrax.

That game looks kickass. The only thing missing from that movie is tits and lesbian sex. I'm guessing they aren't an option though. I'll buy it anyway :p

What's a movie without tits and lesbian sex!?

I demand an investigation!

What's a movie without tits and lesbian sex!?

I demand an investigation!

I think the lack of plot and violence make up for it, but it's only decent rather than brilliant as a result :(

i miss the old days of sam & max hit the road and the like :D


Heretic! Zork is where it's at ;)

That game looks kickass. The only thing missing from that movie is tits and lesbian sex. I'm guessing they aren't an option though. I'll buy it anyway :p

Someones most probably made naked skins.


Wait till Jack Thompson hears that games are teaching children to make skin flicks! :eek:





(For some odd reason I'm tempted to email him, just to see his reaction)

Someones most probably made naked skins.


Wait till Jack Thompson hears that games are teaching children to make skin flicks! :eek:



(For some odd reason I'm tempted to email him, just to see his reaction)
Don't send him Gary's Mod comics.

The song is What Doesn't Die by Anthrax.
:) Thanks!!! :)

I thought it was OK, somewhat funny actually. Like the preacher randomly comming in with an axe. I mean, WTF, is he some axe murderer or something, lol? He must be thinking, "I'm gonna kill that bitch. Oh shit, zombie!"