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Make Your Own Video Game/Movie About Being Trapped in a Mine

Machinima made from video-game Minecraft.

In case you’ve been trapped down a mine, Minecraft is a popular sandbox construction game created by Markus Persson. A sandbox game is one with a non-linear narrative, so you get to wander around to and fro, exploring at your own pace. In Minecraft (Alpha version) players use textured cubes to build and mine which then protects them from roaming monsters. But Brett Randers has turned it into a machinima — the use of the game engine to generate 3D computer animation — and the results are captivating. Above is his most recent one Dreamcraft, a music video with panning vistas where the retro graphics become solemn statements. Although the graphics are blocky and nowhere near the smoothness of Adobe After Effects or its ilk, the movement and music create a brooding atmosphere. Brett’s aim is “to show what Minecraft is before people create and mine. The way the world is before we change it.” The music is “FAR” by lzn02.

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Films rendered using video-games are nothing new, it’s been happening since way back in misty 1996 when Diary of a Camper was created by Ranger Films using first person shooter Quake, effectively giving birth to a new game/film hybrid.

Brett’s first Minecraft video, Minecart Interstate, which takes you whizzing along on a high-speed journey.