General Chat / Documentary on RCT Players

I just started a class on multimedia production and need to decide what to do my final project on. For the project I will need to shoot video, take pictures for a slide-show and record audio. The subject I want to do is RCT Parkmakers.

I think I could do it on myself, but I would rather base it on 1-3 of you guys. Ideally an experienced parkmaker with a spotlight win, a good parkmaker working on a park that can contend for spotlight and maybe someone fairly new to parkmaking. The "Documentary" would be fairly short, about 3-5 mins in all I think.

So please post below if you are interested. All I ask is that your at least 18. If your from Florida that's great because then maybe we can meet for parts of it. I would also like at least one of the parkmakers to be from Europe to show that this is an international game.

I think I could do it on myself....

Just go with that. If you include anyone else, you'll just demean them to glorify yourself anyway.
And, I'm 80% sure that I'm right.

oh, i see what you did there.

well I'm experienced. I'm working on some parks which might be able to content for spotlight and I'm from europe. So think I'm intrested. depending on what I need to do. Think meeting will be difficult .
got a 720p camera here so could film and send it if you need .

Does your camera record in records in .avi, or .mov? I would guess it does.

If I end up with 3 of you interested in doing this you could each do one of the parts. I was thinking the photo slide-show could show your daily life outside RCT, like pics you would have on facebook. The audio would be you talking about playing RCT and a lot like one of my interviews. The video part would be you being filmed while playing RCT and/or showing one of your parks.

It records in avi on a hard disk. can also change it to mov if necessary .
So you will provide us some questsions and we just record us talking about it and give some photos and some moving images. for example I could also just build a while with a screen capturer on and film a little bit .
Kinda intrested .

Sounds great. I'll need to get more info from my prof. before we start, but yeah that all sounds perfect for this

Is anyone else interested? I would like to have a few others be a part of this as I want it to be about parkmakers plural, not just one.

Darren, I honestly don't know how many people want a documentary about them identifying them as "Parkmakers" for a game that's become obsolete for most people beyond nostalgic purposes and how they dedicate so much time to building electronic theme parks... Just my $0.02.

To reiterate Robbie's point...absolutely nobody cares about RCT apart from us

This would be cool to see, if you somehow could pull it off without the parkmakers looking like dorks. That is, emphasize the artistic and creative aspects and not the ultra-nerdy WoW-like obsession side of it. Maybe show off some of the community's best work and different styles in a montage intro, and maybe include something from a Korean park, if you can, for even more of an international/stylistic flair.

Also, I would imagine that if you show any in-game construction footage, you might need to have it sped up a bit, so that it's not too tedious. Or maybe just use a montage of screenshots showing it moving to completion.

I just realised the NE Art Gallery has more or less the same purpose as a documentary about RCT.

http://www.nedesigns...ne-art-gallery/

A compilation of what it's all about.

This would be cool to see, if you somehow could pull it off without the parkmakers looking like dorks. That is, emphasize the artistic and creative aspects and not the ultra-nerdy WoW-like obsession side of it. Maybe show off some of the community's best work and different styles in a montage intro, and maybe include something from a Korean park, if you can, for even more of an international/stylistic flair.

Agreed.

I don't think I'll participate, I don't feel like recording myself and that kind of stuff, but I'm curious to see what will become of this.

To reiterate Robbie's point...absolutely nobody cares about RCT apart from us

I disagree. Some of my friends and family have seen some of my parks and they seriously liked it.

This would be cool to see, if you somehow could pull it off without the parkmakers looking like dorks. That is, emphasize the artistic and creative aspects and not the ultra-nerdy WoW-like obsession side of it. Maybe show off some of the community's best work and different styles in a montage intro, and maybe include something from a Korean park, if you can, for even more of an international/stylistic flair.

Also, I would imagine that if you show any in-game construction footage, you might need to have it sped up a bit, so that it's not too tedious. Or maybe just use a montage of screenshots showing it moving to completion.

you mean something like in this topic X?

http://www.nedesigns...rk-progression/

I'm In the same boat as robbie. And I don't really think your fellow students would give a rat's ass about a group of people obsessed with a 10-year-old game. If you did a documentary about different forms of digital art and included RCT as one of the mediums, then you might have something really interesting.

minecraft?

^ Hasn't someone already done a documentary about Notch and Minecraft?

I just realised the NE Art Gallery has more or less the same purpose as a documentary about RCT.

http://www.nedesigns...ne-art-gallery/

Yeah, I was thinking of that, mixed with some of the "Little Things" topic.

you mean something like in this topic X?

http://www.nedesigns...rk-progression/

Yeah, that's the idea.

who cares if darren is doing this. im sure we're much cooler then the world of warcraft tools.

if no one else wants to help you kumba, i can be a last resort
-JDP

^ Hasn't someone already done a documentary about Notch and Minecraft?

sort of.
they did a test I believe. its quite good. and now got enough money to do a full scale one.

I was just thinking that maybe having James or myself involved to show that two of the better players here are actually over 45 years old and that it's not just kids that get seriously involved in the game. I'd be willing to do a little audio/video and add some stills as well.

I'm 80% sure that this would be a good idea.

It could be interesting to see how RCT relates to art, especially considering a lot of us study or work in art-related fields, ie architecture, music, or graphic design. Less of RCT as a video game, and more of RCT as a medium of art.