Non-Professionally Made Short Videos with Games as Their Subject Matter Trifecta
Why didn’t I just title this article “Videogame Fan Video Trfiecta”? I’m glad you asked.
? First is a short based on the videogame Silent Hill by Paul Leeming of Visceral Psyche Films. Although Leeming is a Silent Hill fan, he’s also a director and cinematographer. I probably still could have called this a fan video at a stretch, I guess. Anyways, watch it, the atmosphere is spooky as hell. However…
? Next is a trailer for a Warhammer 40K animated movie by one person in his free time. He’s definitely a fan, but Warhammer is more a tabletop game than a videogame series, so I didn’t want you guys to bitch at me for calling it a videogame when I knew better, hence the article title. Anyways, watch this too; the settings and armor and vehicles are amazingly designed (that tank blew me away [no pun]). Thanks to Sean S. for the tip.
? Last and certainly not least is a live-action short called Half-Life: Origins, which is definitely based on a videogame but was also made for Machinima.com, who paid for it, which means it was professional, which means it wasn’t fan-made but more indie… thus invalidating the use of “fan video,” and thus forcing me to use the awkward but hopefully accurate article title above. I hope that explains everything to your satisfaction. Oh, and watch this video too (too), as it’s the most polished of the bunch. By god I would not want to meet that Gordon Freeman wielding a crowbar in a darkened alley.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.