I&C SCI 60 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Abbott And Costello, Demoscene, Father Knows Best

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Information and Computer Science
• Course: I&C SCI 60
• Professor: Ingrid L.Stefanovic

Document Summary

Taking the software or hardware and limiting number of copies or when it expires; copy protection. Machinima animated filmmaking within a real-time virtual 3-d environment . Part computer game, part film, part theater. Camper: originally called quake movies , not just skill in quake, but skill with quake, boasting ( look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! ) Father frags best: ripping off father knows best sitcom. World of warcraft: who"s the tank? (remake of who"s on first?) Abbott & costello who"s on first? (baseball comedy) Goal was to push the capabilities of the computer, hack with them, use them for purposes not originally planned. Includes videos, music, competitions (demo parties), breaking copy protection, exploiting undocumented software and hardware features. Cameras, characters, animations, physics from the game. Story, script, voice overs, editing from elsewhere. Artists are always looking for new tools, new media. Many games have equipment dice, cards, money, software, hardware.