Breaking the monotony of the site’s normally scheduled barrage of unwanted genitalia, a team of British filmmakers used the video-chat site Chatroulette to make a real-life, interactive first-person video game.
The production team at Realm Pictures recreated the first-person perspective of shooters by strapping a web camera to an actor’s motorcycle helmet as he stumbles through a zombie apocalypse/occult mystery scenario.
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When a user connects, he or she can control the actor as if he were a character in a video game. After they figure out how to get their way out of the locked room they spawned in, users tell their avatar what to do, which mostly amounts to a lot of “shoot them” and “oh shit, run!” commands.
The whole game takes about 10 minutes and includes all the standard elements of a shooter: health packs, tons of weapon upgrades, quick-time events, and even a final boss.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like Realm Pictures is running the game in perpetuity—but the video ends with a portal to the “next level,” meaning it might not be game over quite yet.
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