Machinima machinations

Nice little machinima rant over at p2pnet.net by a non-machinima maker on the behalf of us. Even people outside the community feel our pain.

Watching the machinima community from a distance, I see a lot of frustration. There are film makers out there just dying to push the envelope and explore the limits of the technology at their disposal, but anything they do that might bring them any kind of publicity (and popularity) will probably get them in a lot of legal trouble as well.

I think things will start to move in our favour as the value of game content and digital distribution (Steam, Xbox Live, etc.) increases in the next gen era and publishers will either turn to us with opportunity or assimulate us with their own versions of game based machinima's. Either way, its growth.