Machinima No. 0
Online games and virtual worlds like World of Warcraft and Second Life are characterized by their own economy and have an in-world currency, which in some cases can be converted into ‘real’ money and thus generate income that can be used outside. World of Warcraft specifically relies on an economy of virtual gold which can be used to acquire, among others, weapons and equipment. This nascent economy has spawned specialized companies and workshops, especially in China where employees – so-called ‘Chinese gold farmers’ work day and night in order to produce currency, equipment and even whole characters to sell to other players in the United States and Europe. UBERMORGEN . COM explores and documents this phenomenon in the project ‘Chinese Gold’, which gathers texts, found footage and re-appropriated prints. The video ‘Machinima No. 0’ is lo-res found footage from video . google . com, showcasing a teleportation hack in World of Warcraft, repeated over and over by Chinese gold farmers.
From the archive
This is a video titled '720p Machinima' It is by Michael Verdi, the creator of nscape.tv, about which: "nscape.tv is created by Michael Verdi using Second Life, Crazy Talk, iShowU and Final Cut Pro. It’s the ongoing story of two robots (actually conscience software in robot bodies). Basically it’s me playing with action figures like I did when I was a kid only there’s a lot more swearing." -- http://nscape.tv/about/
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Machinima No. 0 (2007) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. No signup, no payment and no advertising interrupts playback. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
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- lizvlx Bernhard
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