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The Original Habitat Promotional VideoDecember 2nd, 2008 |
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I remember hounding the ops on qlink every day asking when Habitat would go live. Never did get to try it out.
Could you make a case that this is the first machinima? Game footage captured and made into an actual story. About 10 years before the first Quake movies….
I was sharing an office with Chip Morningstar while he led the Habitat project, so I got to observe a lot of the early phases. I vividly remember feeling awed at how groundbreaking it all felt. One day Chip had a bunch of us come into a room, put a huge sheet of paper on a table, and asked us to help start mapping out the world. He had already decided on the teleport booths to link distant points, so the whole concept of geography was strained, and I remember realizing that a whole city could fit in what appeared to be a single small building if we wanted, and had no idea where to even start with a world map.
If Chip could push a PS3 today to the same extent that he coaxed performance out of the C64, it would wake up and become Skynet.
Either the narrator in that promotional video sounds a lot like Michael Palin, or I’m imagining things.
Wow, thank you for sharing this! I never new… I’m too young!
This is an awesome piece of recent history.
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