Crafting Worlds Style Capture the Flag

Tristan Pope is best known for movies organized around story lines, but he has also delivered several titles more focused on gameplay. "Capture the Flag" falls into the second category. Pope mixes humor and references to sport and movie cliches in depicting competition in the popular Battlegrounds instance, "Warsong Gulch," from the World of Warcraft MMO. Keep an eye out for several imaginative stunts, such as characters playing catch to warm up and an ultimately unsuccessful gnome on rocket power. -- HEL "Blizzard had a competition for movies. They said to make a movie with a list of music from ANY previous blizzard game. Fileplanet was also having a contest in which they said make a movie from World of Warcraft about anything relating to Battlegrounds. So I thought, hmm why not combine the two. So I did. I used the Battleground instance ÂCapture the Flag Called ÂWarsong Gulch and setup an epic battle. Each side is competing to get each others flag, and I wanted to show that in a different light then just running back and forth and make it a little more exciting than it has become for many who just play it to get honor points. The movie begins with some exposition on how the Horde and alliance prepare before the battle begins. Then once the battle begins the teams come out and begin to battle. There are some funny ways in which the flag is taken, or perhaps hidden by each team until the final victory run is attempted. This movie is meant to motivate people to play the Battleground instances as it tries to glorify them and even hints toward the ones which were not shown. A slightly different approach than "For HonorÂ. You could consider it part of the series, I guess, if you really needed to, and had nothing better to do lol." -- Tristan Pope, from Crafting Worlds website, 17 Oct. 2005

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Pope, Tristan