I made this stylised miniature football pitch a while ago to be used in an iOS game, but I ended up not being involved in that. Shame really, as I had a lot of neat ideas for different directions the game could have gone.
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Everyone remembers the first time they stepped onto the Black Mesa Transit System and into the shoes of the unexpected hero, Gordon Freeman. Half-Life Origins is a short film that takes you back to where it all began.
Half-Life: Origins by Infectious Designer
Short, but very sweet. If Half Life were to become a television series, this would be the perfect title sequence.
Trivia: In the tram you can spot a poster for another Half Life short film by Infectious Designer: Beyond Black Mesa.
An 8bit hero fights in a 16bit universe.
A woman wakes up in a room with no memory of who she is or how she got there…
[The documentary] follows 4 MMORPG players taking about their online persona’s. As they tell their stories we see them go about their everyday lives against the mundane backdrop of city life…but as their Avatars.
I used to draw out Mario levels and characters on graph paper. I’d move them around and make the little paper Mario jump on the paper Goombas and think, “Man, I wish I could record this.” Fast forward some 20 years later and I’ve finally gotten around to doing something like it. Here’s to the 6 year old in your past who always liked to draw cartoons.
Final Fantasy stop motion.
TURBO is a high adrenaline short film in the tradition of The Karate Kid and Tron. It tells the story of Hugo Park (Justin Chon, Twilight) a troubled youth whose only outlet for angst is a 4D fighting videogame called “Super Turbo Arena”. When Pharaoh King (Jocko Sims, Crash the Series), the Michael Jordan of cyber-sports, announces a tournament to determine who will join his pro-team, Hugo sets his eyes on the prize. But, Hugo isn’t the only gamer who wants fame and glory.
Join Twig (Zack Finfrock), a former Vault 10 Dweller, as he searches the barren wasteland of eastern California for ice-cold Nuka Cola. Along for the ride is Ben (Aaron Giles), a radiation-ravaged ghoul, and Scarlett (Tybee Diskin), a sexy former slave. Together, the three attempt to survive both the harsh wastes and a relentless group of bounty hunters while trying to find the coveted beverage — Nuka Cola.
Nuka Break by Wayside Creations
If you really like the film, you can help the creators raise $20,000 to make it into a web series.
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The end of days are upon us. Zombies now walk the earth 24/7. The ultimate weapon must be crafted so that Niko and Sam can escape on the last remaining minecart out of the infected city!
A fan film inspired by VALVe’s masterpeice video game title Portal. With the fate of the main character of the game, Chell, left up in the air at the end of the game, we took the liberty of creating a fan film under the assumption that Chell lived to escape the Aperture Science Labrotories, and must now face life out in the real world. She finds an abandoned house, still stocked with food, and begins a new life with her trusty Portal Gun at her side.
A short narrative about human interplanetary exploration.
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