{"id":507,"date":"2007-03-14T01:45:51","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T01:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=507"},"modified":"2007-03-14T01:45:51","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T01:45:51","slug":"fair-trade-machinima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=507","title":{"rendered":"Fair Trade Machinima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish machinima production outfit <a href=http:\/\/www.strangecompany.org\/>Strange Company<\/a> have recently produced a couple of short films on the subject of fair trade, as part of their .<a href=http:\/\/fairgame.strangecompany.org\/>Fair Game<\/a> initiative.<br \/>\nThere are two: one, made in The Sims 2 and developed in conjunction with a local high school, is a nice short piece, and the other is an elaborate World of Warcraft riff that I only barely followed since I don&#8217;t play World of Warcraft.  If you have the WoW bug, then that one&#8217;s for you.<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/fairgame.strangecompany.org\/film\/list>Download or stream them here.<\/a><br \/>\nWhat are machinima?  In a nutshell, short animated films made inside computer games.  It&#8217;s a developing field and I&#8217;m lucky enough to have one of the co-authors of <a href=http:\/\/www.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-0470096918,descCd-description.html>Machinima for Dummies<\/a> on my <a href=http:\/\/www.ihatesheep.co.uk\/>blogroll<\/a>; he should be along to correct my nutshell description and any other misconceptions in this post before long.  Whereupon I will harrass him for wedding photos, thus bringing everything back into balance.<br \/>\nAnyway, it&#8217;s great to see companies getting in behind the Fair Trade effort.  (It is a much bigger thing in the UK than it is in New Zealand, sadly for us Kiwis.)<br \/>\n(Also of note: only a bit over a year out of Scotland and my ability to interpret the accent is fading&#8230; had to listen to the first line of the Sims film three times before I understand what he was saying&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish machinima production outfit Strange Company have recently produced a couple of short films on the subject of fair trade, as part of their .Fair Game initiative. There are two: one, made in The Sims 2 and developed in conjunction with a local high school, is a nice short piece, and the other is an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=507\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fair Trade Machinima<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-8b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}