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Machinima Archive
A quick introduction to Machinima

Machinima is a digital artform in which computer games or game engines in a sandbox mode are used to create motion pictures, plays or even presentations/keynotes.

The Machinima Archive is a library of media hosted on Archive.org. The archive collates a range of Machinima films from internet publishers such as Rooster Teeth and Machinima.com as well as independent producers.

"The Machinima Archive is dedicated to the academic investigation and historical preservation of the emerging art form known as machinima. Machinima is filmmaking within real-time, 3D virtual environments, often appropriated from existing video game engines. High-quality new machinima of all kinds are regularly added to the archive for your enjoyment. The Machinima Archive is a collaborative effort of the Internet Archive, the How They Got Game research project at Stanford University, the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences, and Machinima.com"

The archive contains a full range of Machinima videos, including the popular Red vs. Blue series from Rooster Teeth as well as virtual speeches from academics such as Henry Lowood among other videos.

Note to other editors
There will be two versions of this section, one that will hopefully be found one the Machinima: Virtual Filmmaking page and one that will appear on the Internet Archive page. The latter page will contain a brief description of machinima as the rest of the article doesn't discuss the artform.