The Movies

[Skul]

I just found this video made using a game called The Movies (which I have). It's called A Nerd's Revenge and is pretty funny.

Ok this is about a nerd called Justin that is bullied by Brad, a highschool jock. He gets beat up real bad one day, and goes home to get his gun and show brad how it feels.
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I feel that some Americans that have witnessed gunshootings at school should not watch this, for it is of "bad" taste, i for one have never witnessed it so i thought it might be good for a laugh, to spice it up a bit.

You might have to turn your volume up a bit, since the voices aren't too clear.

A Nerd's Revenge

I'm thinking of making a video series based on Sports Suck with us forum members as the cast (yes, including the sports bores). You'd have to settle for text when characters are speaking, since I'm not a very good voice actor. I just need a good storyline. Anyone here a scriptwriter? I've got a pretty good imagination, but it sometimes takes me a while to come up with something.

P.S. 200 POSTS! WOO!

[Fitz301]

Do tell me more! Very intriguing...

I'll help anyway I can.

Fitz301

[Skul]

I just need some ideas for this series, which will be exclusive to SportsSuck.org.

I've finished the tycoon (main) mode, so I've unlocked everything in the Sandbox mode, plus I got a bonus disc with my copy, so I've got everything available, and them some!

I've made two non-sports related movies, so far. You can download them from the links below.

Above the Clouds of War (Genre: Action, Sci-Fi Size: 3.78 MB Length: 2:41)

and

Breath of Despair (Genre: Action, Horror Size: 5.55 MB Length: 3:42)

The second one, Breath of Despair, is finished, but I'll have to re-export it at a higher quality level, because the actors look like shit at medium due to the fog effects used. Above the Clouds of War is passable, though.

There are only a few select scenes you have available, so you can't have spaceships crashing onto alien worlds, or have two armies fighting each other in real-time. There is a big selection available, though.

EDIT: Breath of Despair uploaded and lengths added. The image quality is higher, so now the actors' faces resemble human beings. The videos are blurry on fullscreen mode only. Admittedly, they look better when not maximised, but it a strain on your eyes to squint at an image for a length of time.

[Ray]

I just found this video made using a game called The Movies (which I have). It's called A Nerd's Revenge and is pretty funny.

Ok this is about a nerd called Justin that is bullied by Brad, a highschool jock. He gets beat up real bad one day, and goes home to get his gun and show brad how it feels.
Full V/O
SFX
MUSIC
I feel that some Americans that have witnessed gunshootings at school should not watch this, for it is of "bad" taste, i for one have never witnessed it so i thought it might be good for a laugh, to spice it up a bit.

You might have to turn your volume up a bit, since the voices aren't too clear.

A Nerd's Revenge

I'm thinking of making a video series based on Sports Suck with us forum members as the cast (yes, including the sports bores). You'd have to settle for text when characters are speaking, since I'm not a very good voice actor. I just need a good storyline. Anyone here a scriptwriter? I've got a pretty good imagination, but it sometimes takes me a while to come up with something.

P.S. 200 POSTS! WOO!

That's interesting. What kind of software do you need to make a movie like that? That's pretty cool.

[Ray]

I just need some ideas for this series, which will be exclusive to SportsSuck.org.

I've finished the tycoon (main) mode, so I've unlocked everything in the Sandbox mode, plus I got a bonus disc with my copy, so I've got everything available, and them some!

I've made two non-sports related movies, so far. You can download them from the links below.

Above the Clouds of War (Genre: Action, Sci-Fi Size: 3.78 MB)

and

Breath of Despair (Genre: Action, Horror Size: Not uploaded)

The second one, Breath of Despair, is finished, but I'll have to re-export it at a higher quality level, because the actors look like shit at medium due to the fog effects used. Above the Clouds of War is passable, though.

There are only a few select scenes you have available, so you can't have spaceships crashing onto alien worlds, or have two armies fighting each other in real-time. There is a big selection available, though.

Wow, that is amazing! I haven't seen anything like that before. You can make your own movies?! That looked really professional. Was the character at the beginning supposed to be talking? Nice soundtrack too. I bet that was a lot of fun to make.

[Skul]

To create these things, you need a game (it's more like a simulator, to be honest) called The Movies. It simulates running a movie studio. You start from the 1920's, making really short, silent black-and-white films and continue through the years, hiring stars and directors, creating scripts (or getting scriptwriters to do them for you), winning awards and shaping your studio into something wonderful. The game/simulator ends eighty years later in 2005 where you can either start again or continue playing. The cool thing is, real-world events (such as World War II and Saddam Hussein's rise to power) will change the public's interests in different genres. There's also a Sandbox mode that allows you to do practically anything you want. And yes, Ray, it is a lot of fun!

I ripped some voices and music from other games for my movies. For AtCoW, I couldn't find any suitable voice clips for the conversation at the start, so I left it 'blank'. The voices and music track for the battle are the ripped audio pieces. The rest are in-game. It's sometimes better to put in your own sounds and music, since some of the game's sounds are pretty low-quality (much like a lot of the scripts created by your scriptwriters).

If you want, I could upload the stupidest, most incoherent pile of random funnyness ever created by my 'experienced' scriptwriters (seriously, their experience was really high)!

Breath of Despair is actually a remake of something I made the first time I played the game. The game stopped working due to a registry key changing from '0' to '1'. For some reason, the game wouldn't load properly; all I'd get would be a black screen with audio. That sucked.

Well, now it's working and (almost) everything's dandy.

[Ray]

I'm impressed. I'll have to check it out. Do you have to make it frame by frame and specifying the intervals, etc --wow, just think of the things you could do, the storylines you could make. Does it make animations too --like those animated gifs--or just movies?

Sure, I'd like to see the other projects. Where can I download them? Thanks!
Ray

[Skul]

Do you have to make it frame by frame and specifying the intervals

It's all a set of pre-made animations. You choose which set you want, then the scene (for example, people walking somewhere, people shooting things, etc).

The scenes are all shot seperately. You can put them into Post Production and add fades and sound effects to make them more attractive to your real-world audience (although it has no effect on the in-game ratings. The game rates movies differently).

Sure, I'd like to see the other projects. Where can I download them? Thanks!

Here it is -- the Zen Garden of Randomness. This is what my experienced scripwriters wrote for me.

The Doughboy (Genre: Drug-induced fantasy Size: 1.88 MB Length: 1:42)

The first time me and my sister watched this, we were laughing so hard, tears were coming out of our eyes! It just makes no fuckin' sense!

[Ray]

A HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAHA --that is funny! I thought that ape wanted to dance. It reminded me of that Kurt Vonnegut style of writing --first he's in a bar --then in the future on the deck of a spaceship --and then running for his life on a battleground --with an APE in hot pursuit! ha ha ha ha ha

I bet the possibilities are endless --yes! make a movie about how stupid jocks are! but what... (thinking...) we'll have to dream up the storyline --I can't think of anything now.

[Skul]

I tried making a test episode back before I had the black screen bug I was talking about. It had little coherency and no real story or plot -- just 'us' arguing with jocks and then proceeding to kick their asses, after which they left the scene in shame at being beaten up by nerds. I hadn't saved it, since it was kind of lame and wasn't going anywhere.

The Doughboy... I don't know what caused them to make that! Who is the doughboy? The ape? The guy at the bar? I mean, it's like, what were they thinking?

I think they mixed up the sets (there are some scenes you can only get with certain sets). But still... switching from a western bar to the bridge of a spaceship? What the hell is that? Couldn't they just stick to western sets? There's a rural field set for them to run through, so why are they running across a battlefield?

Ugh. Anyway, if you want to try out The Movies, you can download the demo from here (285 MB). The FileFront mirror should guarantee a download.

If you do try it and get the dreaded black screen of frustration (where you only hear audio), let me know -- I've got the solution for it.

EDIT: Changed thread title.

[Ray]

I'll give it a try when I have time. Yeah --that was a mixed up movie but still kind of interesting for something created at random.

I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with. The test episode you described sounded OK to ME.

[Skul]

It may take a while. You know what they say -- "True genius can't be rushed!" (or something).

I've got a utility that allows me to customise my stars so they look exactly how I want them. If you want, I could try and create a digital alter-ego for you. What hair colour and eye colour do you want? What kind of clothes do you usually wear? Give me some information.

Well, you don't have to -- I could always just hire a random actor who looks cool.

I'm not sure if I can make custom clothes with the utilities I got, but there should be a way. I could have a go at making in-game anti-sports shirts and jackets. Or would that be going a bit far?

[Ray]

It may take a while. You know what they say -- "True genius can't be rushed!" (or something).

I've got a utility that allows me to customise my stars so they look exactly how I want them. If you want, I could try and create a digital alter-ego for you. What hair colour and eye colour do you want? What kind of clothes do you usually wear? Give me some information.

Well, you don't have to -- I could always just hire a random actor who looks cool.

I'm not sure if I can make custom clothes with the utilities I got, but there should be a way. I could have a go at making in-game anti-sports shirts and jackets. Or would that be going a bit far?

no, that sounds appropriate to me but it might be too much trouble. What kind of clothes do I wear? The standard American uniform: blue jeans, t-shirt and sneakers. You can make me look like Napolean Dynamite!

Have you ever seen the Venetian Princess movies? --I just stumbled on them last night. She's pretty creative too. And hot.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gXjPRkUEgAM

[Skul]

So, you want curly orange hair and glasses? Can do!

That Venetian Princess... well there's a lot of blue screen action going on, that's for sure. However, I don't find her that hot, to be honest.

[Ray]

So, you want curly orange hair and glasses? Can do!

That Venetian Princess... well there's a lot of blue screen action going on, that's for sure. However, I don't find her that hot, to be honest.

is that how it's done? blue screen? She's better in her other videos --she has a series of them. But I mainly admire how clever she is with her soundtracks and effects. Pretty smart. for a girl. he he he

ha ha ha ha does he have orange hair?! I guess I never paid that close attention but OK. So be it. As long as I can dance as good as him too.