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Machinomics
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"Machinomics" are comic-styled narratives that combine video game screenshots with player narrative to tell a story. They're like Machinima, only they're the static Webcomics version. They may crossover with other genres of media, or may be played straight. A straight-up Machinomic is one in which all the characters, backgrounds, etc. are created INSIDE of a video game or similar medium. However, a Machinomic may also import video game characters into Photo Comic backgrounds or may even place Real Life actors inside of video game backgrounds. This forum bears an early example of this term being used. However, the term has now been adopted elsewhere, including on Comixpedia. A Machinomic differs from a Sprite Comic because the characters are fully 3-D, as opposed to using sprites like those in early video games. Reasons run the gamut for why someone would choose to make a Machinomic instead of simply making Machinima. Perhaps you are a lousy editor, or your video card is inferior. Maybe you're planning to do stuff that isn't possible in-game for the sake of telling a better story. Or maybe, you just don't have good audio recording equipment. Or, perhaps you have bandwidth issues. Or perhaps you're hand-making every model and prop in 3D editing software, instead of a 3D engine released with a game. Or perhaps you don't have any voice actors other than yourself which can be a problem if you have characters of both genders. Regardless your reasons, Machinomics can be a good substitute for dozens of other Webcomics formats and for Machinima. Machinomics may use a variety of Webcomic publication formats, from being straight-up comic strips to formalized DVD-Storybook Hybrid Webcomics (a.k.a., DSHW, inspired by storytelling exchanges on game websites and by DVD menus) to basically anything. Machinomics bear some flexibility over Machinima in the simple fact that the user only needs to assemble images and text using screenshots and manipulating them with image software. A live screenshot may be captured from any work, but scripted shots are just as possible. Games that allow a user to pause gameplay without obstructing scene view are particularly useful. Quick machinima video clips may also be paused, with clips from these videos assembled into Machinomic material. Popular sources of Machinomics include Rainbow Six, The Sims, F.E.A.R., Halo and Garry's Mod for Half-Life 2. Not surprisingly, there's a lot of overlap between this trope and a Let's Play, particularly the narrative type rather than an illustrated fanmade walkthrough. Not to be confused with machine economics. |
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Kendl Core is a comic made using Half-Life 2 and Garry's Mod | |
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Eight Cicadas is a dramedy that uses The Sims 3. | |
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Fortune & Romance is a prequel to the storylines at the beginning of The Sims 2. | |
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Simtopi is an Urban Fantasy made with The Sims 2. | |
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Bella Square is a sequel to several of the Sims 2 storylines. | |
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Ciem (pictured above) is a DSHW Machinomic from Dozerfleet Comics, available on several websites Mod The Sims Social. While the original story also served as a promotion for the DSHW format, Ciem sought in so many words to be the Trope Codifier. It's now available on MTS only, although an in-the-works series called Cataclysmic Horizons seeks to repurpose and reuse a lot of its characters. |
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The Daily Blink is a World of Warcraft webcomic satirizing the game and surrounding fanbase. | |
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Life With Lamarr is yet another comic made using Garry's Mod. | |
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Stolen Pixels is a weekly machinomic by Shamus Young made using a variety of different video games hosted at The Escapist. | |
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Jenny Everywhere's Infinite: Quark Time uses Second Life snapshots to create its panels, following the stories of several Jenny Everywheres. | |
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Concerned is another comic made using Garry's Mod. | |
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The comics in Top Secret are a variant: the cartoonishnote Made with vector graphics in CorelDRAW, apparently characters are overlaid on top of (photoshopped) video game screenshots and interact with the videogame characters. Of course, since the comics were made in the early 90's, we're talking about 2D pixelated graphics here. | |
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Strangetown, Here We Come is one using the characters from the premade neighborhood Strangetown. | |
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Alice And Kev is a particularly heartwrenching one, using The Sims 3. | |
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An Astronomical Alphabetacy, Hermione's ABCs, The Marina Legacy Transformed, and My Favorite Things: The Legacy are ongoing Machinomics that follow the legacy challenge rules. | |
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Some of the parts in Draw Your Own Story. | |
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