The Movies!

OK I got my self seriously side tracked this weekend. I was running errands with the wife and whilst in the car I began musing about the game 'The Movies' which I'd been reading about. Sucumbing to my curiousity I stopped by Fry's and picked it up. After that I lost pretty much the remainder of the weekend to it!

The game has basically two parts, a movie studio simulator, which is actually quite good, and a sandbox mode which allows you most of the freedom you need to just make movies. The game supplies the sets and a ton of stock scenes that the actors (which you can create The Sims 2 style) can act out for you. If you're really into it you can provide the voice acting for the characters and have the game lip sync your voices onto the computer generated actors. It's very cool and I sunk a ton of time into it making two movies.

My biggest problem is I really bit off more than I could chew for my first movies and ran up against scene and custom sound limitations in the game that I need to learn to work around (or hopefully they'll patch!). Still very very interested and very promising.

I'd post my best movie for you now but I made a mistake and my original movie file is screwed up and the only export I had made before I borked it was a highest quality 100mb+ version. Which by the way looked pretty good on the TV when I burned it to a DVD :)