#gaming documentary

[literallydanhowell]

[danfallingoffchairs]

Dan did an amazing job in that documentary! Holy shit that was awesome.

[hearteyezhowell]

I wish I could watch Dan’s documentary tonight but I’m in the US 😭😭

[okayorchids]

im so proud of him (x)

[okayorchids]

How do you get this beautiful 

[luftsparke]

Documentary which opens a window on the bizarre community of e-sports that has been almost invisible to the outside world up to now. Three young British gamers at different stages of their careers all have dreams of reaching the very top. The overnight sensation from Tottenham - gamers' name KaSing - lives in Berlin, playing in one of Europe's top teams. His 20-year-old former teammate Matt, nicknamed Impaler, is having a crisis of confidence about his once-flourishing career. And the 17-year-old hopeful Greensheep is struggling to break through on to the big stage. Over a summer of competition, we follow these three in training, at school, and at the enormous tournaments where they pit their skills against elite gamers from all over the world. Competition is fierce, and those at the top in team games need to practise for up to 12 hours a day - living together, eating together and training together in houses paid for by multinational sponsors. The film is presented by YouTube star and gaming addict Dan Howell, who's watched gaming change from a hobby into a mass spectator sport watched by millions around the world. He knew about the incredible keyboard dexterity of these gamers, but on his travels around Europe he tries to understand the risks and sacrifices they've made to reach the top of their chosen profession.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06zw0dx

Since digiguide has the photo of Dan, but doesn’t explain who he is or what he has to do with it, I checked to see if BBC Three had joined the dots. Daft of the other site to just plonk on a photo without a caption naming him as the presenter.

[1-narz]

PAX East Panel: How to Make Your Non-Budget Gaming Documentary

PAX East Panel: How to Make Your Non-Budget Gaming Documentary by @1_Narz via @ggvogue

The world’s best gaming documentaries that we see in the gaming industry are not normally the ones with flashy special effects or big budget production. They are the ones that capture the essence of what the devotion to gaming is all about. The characters dont make the game, the people that play the game do. Its not about becoming famous for this filmmakers, its about capturing those moments of…

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[kingdomofodd-blog]

I am Kind of a Documentary Nerd

Last night while attempting to remember how to code basic html5 css3 I decided to watch the documentary I Got Next on Hulu. I think I played Street Fighter once as a child, maybe? Combat games have never really been my style, I'm more of a minecraft, sims, myst kind of person and proud of it, but because I'm a complete hermit I enjoy watching documentaries about different subcultures I'm not a part of. So I decided to give it a whirl.

So one problem that this movie does not suffer from is over/redundant explanation. In fact, I can't remember being more lost or ever having more questions go unanswered. It wasn't until two-thirds of the way through (by way of a side comment) that they tell you that they can change characters part way through a tournament. I seemed to remember that the game involved a long list of stock characters to choose from, but did people call dibs on certain ones or was it a free-for-all? Still not completely sure really.

And what about game play? Are tournament games shorter or longer then hobbyist games? Obviously this would vary from player to player, but they interviewed more then a handful of gamers and no one talked about strategy or anything. There has to be some reason these guys are beating everyone else, and if it's just because they play so much more or have all the combinations memorized how do they stay on top/why don't they just come out and say it.

I also thought the people that were interviewed were really boring. In thinking about the idea of professional gamers I did more to convince myself that they weren't just a pack of utter losers then the film did. It didn't help any that they mostly talked in monotones, well other then the random clips of drama angst. Oh it's so hard to play with all that pressure from the crowd. I guess? Don't forget that two of them have/had girlfriends, I guess that means their normal not losers.

The largest problem of all, I thought at least, was that there was no over arching message. It basically boiled down to some shallow profiling of big names in competitive Street Fighting. I mean, sure whatever, throw the fans a movie, but I felt like it could have been a lot more. A couple of the guys talked briefly about how they would like to see the scene expand, and I think this could have been an excellent opportunity. Whatever, I'm obviously not the target audience.