This Would Never Happen at Black Mesa

I'm probably one of many who fell in love with the game Portal - it has an insane combination of crazy puzzles, wicked game design, and incredibly cute characters. There are a lot of great machinima pieces out there on the turrets, the companion cube, etc., but the one I included above is strangely reminiscent of the brilliant Red vs. Blue dialog.

Score another one for Garry's Mod and for the machinima creators, the Leet World! Sadly, I have yet to be able to load their site.

Will Wright on Spore Machinima

Quick blip: N'Gai Croal interviews Will Wright on Spore -- and asks it plain and simple:

Croal: What are the machinima tools like within Spore?

Wright: We have that built in throughout the game where you can capture game footage at any time, photos and stuff. In the Creature Creator--this is another thing we went down the path of, "What would we really want to do with this?"--I can design a creature, have them play all these animations, move them around on either a set backdrop or a black screen which is essentially a green screen, so I can actually mix it in with other footage, and composite it. There's also a one-button upload in that moviemaking feature to YouTube. So I can actually make a movie in the game, and with one click of the button upload it onto YouTube. Again, this is where we wanted it to blend from the game world to the world of Web content so that it felt like this game was another creative tool pouring into some of these sites. Plus you can take pictures, email them to your friends, and all that stuff within the game.

Get the full down-low of Will's interview at Croal's blog.