To celebrate the start of the year, Nine Hour Films has released the official trailer for our film, Good Game. You may recall the project from when we were filming some time ago, but for those of you who may have missed it, Good Game is an independent documentary where we followed the Starcraft 2 division of team Evil Geniuses throughout 2011 (and part of 2012).
The film is finally completed, and we've partnered with Devolver Digital (who you might know as an indie game distributor) to release the movie in 2014. Full details for where/when you can view the movie will be coming in throughout the next month or so.
But who cares about that, you're here for the trailer, aren't you?
I've been looking forward to this for a long time and I'm glad it's done.
It's a shame that it's focused on an EG and a scene that is radically different to the one we see today. Idra seemed to be the centre of the trailer, and he's not even playing anymore.
Still, it looks very well done, and should be good for nostalgia.
On January 04 2014 09:15 Larkin wrote: I've been looking forward to this for a long time and I'm glad it's done.
It's a shame that it's focused on an EG and a scene that is radically different to the one we see today. Idra seemed to be the centre of the trailer, and he's not even playing anymore.
Still, it looks very well done, and should be good for nostalgia.
On January 04 2014 12:25 Shyndashu wrote: Sucks there's a lot of Idra, but he's no longer a staple of their team. =[
I think it looks good, and it's a documentary not a real-time account of the starcraft 2 scene. And Idra is still apart of the scene doing his casting and commentating now so it's not like he completely disappeared. What do you expect? It's a constantly changing scene trying to make a real-time account of the scene and have the production be anywhere near the quality people will expect is almost impossible without some very good funding and producers/directors working on it. Those expectations are pretty ridiculous.
On January 04 2014 09:15 Larkin wrote: I've been looking forward to this for a long time and I'm glad it's done.
It's a shame that it's focused on an EG and a scene that is radically different to the one we see today. Idra seemed to be the centre of the trailer, and he's not even playing anymore.
Still, it looks very well done, and should be good for nostalgia.
Well, it all comes down to intention. My intention with the film wasn't a real time account of exactly what's going on right now. If I wanted to do that, I would have opted for something much smaller and more like a YouTube video series or a set of journalistic articles. Something faster, smaller, with less polish, and more immediate.
What I do is make films, and tell stories. So I wanted to make a film that told a story about a year in the life, and I chose EG to do it for a variety of reasons. I wanted to capture what the scene was right then, that year, that time, that moment when SC2 was rising and was the biggest name on the block.
I knew when I was filming that by the time the movie was out, most of what I was capturing wouldn't be true anymore, but that doesn't mean it wasn't true THEN. I knew a lot of the players would probably leave the team, that they wouldn't continue winning, they might retire, etc. Documentaries are about documenting, and that's what I was doing, and what I think we accomplished.
The things that happened after we wrapped certainly informed the filming, and IdrA became a central part not just because of what happened while our cameras were running but also what happened afterwards. The same is true for all of them, what we thought were our stories because they were capturing attention while they happened didn't remain the center of the film because of the context of the history and hindsight we have now. One of the coaches from Murderball was fired after filming was complete and I can't recall if it they worked it into the film or not, but that kind of thing happens when you're making a movie about people who are still out there living and doing what they do.
So that was our goal, not to get caught up in "things have changed, we have to redo everything" because then you'd never be done. But to capture a time, tell the story, and make a movie. And I'm hoping people will enjoy it when they see it, if for nothing else because it brings back memories of that year and what it was like when SC2 was filling the room at MLG and there were never enough chairs.
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