Fragparty Movie Intro

A blast from the past, this opening clip is the only portion of my first film - made precisely 10 years ago - that I'm even a little bit pleased with.

The game is Quake 2. Video was captured to VHS camcorder in 1998 from a Canopus Pure3d video card. 3d titles with a program made by Ulead called "Cool3d" - I don't know if it's even still around. Music *WAS* a mix of Downward Spiral era Nine Inch Nails, I've since updated the soundtrack to be a Creative Commons NIN selection from Ghosts. Camerawork is all live, all manual - it was all I knew how to do back then.

The entire movie, called "The Fragparty Movie" and running around 30 minutes, was just a bunch of first-person deathmatch demo clips edited together with various hard rocking songs underneath. The demos were recorded at an over-the-net party a group of friends and I used to have pretty regularly in 98-99; the party consisted of meeting on a Quake 2 server, and blasting each other to bits. Many times we'd be on Roger Wilco or Battlefield Communicator - the VoIP vehicles of the time. And around once a year, there was a "GeekFest", where someone would invite everyone else to town and have a local LAN party. I went to one in 1999, it was my first trip to Toronto, and while it was frigid it was also a great time.

The "OGF", as this group of friends came to be known, were some of the original members of Planetquake's Quake 2 mailing list; we migrated to our own private list when several dozen of us longed for a better moderated environment. A good many of us are still on that mailing list today, and every once and awhile a game will come along and someone will say, "Let's get together!" and the Online Gaming Friends reunite once again.

The Fragparty Movie was something I created as a tribute to this great group of gaming friends. I got special permission from id Software to distribute 100 copies of the movie on CD, which I did to everyone in OGF who wanted one. I even gave away one copy for free, I ran a little "easter egg hunt" when I released Father Frags Best in January of 1999: be the first to name all the famous people depicted in the pictures on the wall of that movie, and I'd send you a free copy of The Fragparty Movie on CD. Someone emailed me the correct answers (there were 10-12 if I remember right) in less than 24 hours. Ha!

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• quake2
• id
• software
• frag
• lan
• party
• deathmatch
• nine
• inch
• nails
• intro
• credits
• quakemovie

[FuneralFragz]

Its justa big intro, its why he disabled ratings.

BLOCKED!!!

[JackContraband]

So what is this all leading up to Overman?

[AlbinoFrog]

Hahaha, nice.

[ollybobs077]

it was ok

[julie7095]

That was pretty cool. I like the music.