Associated Press story about Machinima project in the AFI Digital Content Lab - posted to SF Gate NEW YORK, (AP) –Imagine a TV show created especially for you. Actors, sets and props would be completely customized depending on factors like your age, sex and location. Even the product placement would be tailor-made to suit you. Online video [...]
Kuma Games Teams Up With AFI To Develop New Approach To Dynamic Storytelling
In an interesting move, Kuma Games has teamed up with the American Film Institute’s Digital Content Lab for a project titled “Leaving The Gameâ€. Kuma has developed a prototype that leverages the video game engine to create a new form of dynamic storytelling. This groundbreaking work will eventually deliver movie-like experiences to our PCs and game consoles. Unlike traditional movies, this form of entertainment will be more personalized. and also open up the door for highly targeted adverti
Kuma Reality Games is a computer games developer. They specialize in developing free episodic first person shooters (FPS) since 2004. The company has also created a number of machinima movies for their games, particularly The Dinohunters.
Kuma Reality Games; along with their original properties Kuma\War and Dinohunters also produces games based on other TV properties such as The History Channel's Dogfights and ShootOut! series , as well as The Kill Point for Spike TV.
Kuma Reality Games currently produces six major 'game-isode' programs. They are all available to download for free.
Kuma\War: This game takes information and strategic data from recent military operations and attempts to recreate the war scenario as it happened. The Missions for Kuma\War are missions 1-74. The Missions after That are Kuma\\War Missions. This game has come under much praise and criticism for the role it plays in reproducing recent battles.
Kuma\\War This is the second version of Kuma\War. Which Also Takes information from recent military operations, but this game is a first person. Another thing different about this one then Kuma\War is its different missions, and updated graphics.
Shootout! The Game: Shootout! is a game that is produced in conjunction with The History Channel program of the same name. The episodic games for this title are based on the actual ShootOut! episodes that air on The History Channel. Some of the battles recreated include Iwo Jima, The Tet Offensive, The Battle of the Bulge and an episode on the Vietcong attacking of the US Embassy in Vietnam.
Dinohunters: The story of Dinohunters is centered around a fictitious reality show on the Total Hunting Channel and sends a crew of washed up celebrities into the past to hunt dinosaurs for sport and big ratings. The crew consists of Australian stuntman and actor Roger Wallaby, country singer Harlan Davis, native New Yorker Shaw, and their sexpot producer Candace "Candy" Spencer.
Dogfights The Game: Dogfights is a game that is produced in conjunction with The History Channel program of the same name. The games for this title are based on the show's Season 2 World War II episodes.
The Kill Point: Game: The Kill Point is a free episodic first person shooter based on Spike TV's program The Kill Point. Each game episode mirrors events from each episode of the series; where police try to negotiate the safe release of hostages in a bank robbery gone awry.
