{"id":53,"date":"2008-09-20T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rglas.dds.nl\/wordpress%20blog\/index.php\/2008\/09\/20\/game-adaptations-and-picnic\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T07:49:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T07:49:29","slug":"game-adaptations-and-picnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/2008\/09\/20\/game-adaptations-and-picnic\/","title":{"rendered":"Game adaptations and PICNIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Busy week ahead. I will be presenting during the Third Annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literatureonscreen.com\/index.php?q=2008.html\">Association of Literature on Screen Conference<\/a> in Amsterdam. My talk is called \u2018Tales of the Past: Performance-based Adaptation in World of Warcraft Machinima\u2019 and is, as one would probably expect, part of the \u2018adapting video games\u2019 panel.<\/p>\n<p>What I won\u2019t be doing is discussing the growing number of terrible <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_films_based_on_video_games\">game-to-screen<\/a> adaptations made by the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uwe_boll\">Uwe Boll<\/a>. My paper will focus on how to retain player agency and performance while adapting game to film and will, as a result, discuss player created films, more specifically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.machinima.org\/machinima-faq.html\">machinima<\/a>. Here, play is adapted to film, not just a story.<\/p>\n<p>My case study, the impressively large-scale machinima production <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talesofthepast.com\/\">Tales of the Past III<\/a>, blends existing storylines and characters from World of Warcraft\u2019s Azerothian lore with those of the players involved. In a game where you cannot have any lasting impact on the fictional world, a homemade adaptation like this one empowers players to establish <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">themselves <\/span>as true heroes in Warcraft\u2019s grand narrative.<\/p>\n<p>This conference, pure humanities academia, is as far removed from the marketplace as you can get. The other conference I will be visiting is the opposite. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.picnicnetwork.org\/index.php?lang=en\">PICNIC <\/a>is an annual, large-scale, new media oriented event and, quoting their site, \u2018brings together and disseminates the ideas and knowledge of the world&#8217;s best creators and innovators.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Part of \u2018Enquiring Minds\u2019, a group of new media researchers invited to PICNIC, I\u2019ll be looking at all the new developments and ideas in the new media marketplace, with people from companies like Philips and Google giving presentations. Glancing at the program, I\u2019ll be bombarded with a whole lot of utopian celebrations of \u2018we\u2019, the creative masses. The inclusion of Aaron Koblin\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.picnicnetwork.org\/page\/22456\/en\">The Sheep Market<\/a> made me chuckle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busy week ahead. I will be presenting during the Third Annual Association of Literature on Screen Conference in Amsterdam. My talk is called \u2018Tales of the Past: Performance-based Adaptation in World of Warcraft Machinima\u2019 and is, as one would probably expect, part of the \u2018adapting video games\u2019 panel. What I won\u2019t be doing is discussing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/2008\/09\/20\/game-adaptations-and-picnic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Game adaptations and PICNIC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reneglas.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}