Alexo presents a new version of the machinima film "Diary of a Camper". The CNP tribute to the world's oldest known machinima film.
The original - [ Ссылка ]

Special thanks to the Rangers for the original film, and the original id software staff for creating Quake!

Directors Notes:
In 1996, a group of pioneers called "The Rangers", would gather in October to produce a new format of entertainment. Created using a demo file with the original Quake, in one single take, these players produced the world's oldest documented machinima narrative story.

"Diary of a Camper" was a demo file, that followed a group of players in the Quake Deathmatch. The dialogue was in game text chat, and followed a squad of players scouting the map for an enemy player. The player is soon discovered camping in a room with a teleporter, with the rocket launcher.

The players barrage the room with rockets, to remove the enemy player from camping. The players enter the room after the campers demise, revealing the camper was actually John Romero, one of the lead designers at Id software for Quake.

The film would go on to inspire many of more films in Quake, Quake II, and eventually spawned an entire subset of film making nearly 30 years later - Machinima.

I was beginning to tinker with the idea of a remake of the film for its 25th anniversary in 2021. But I was still not gifted enough with Gmod, and wanted to wait more time to make a high quality version. I am foreign to the tech behind in engine Quake films prior to 1999. The documentation for how to even build those films is vastly lost. I didn't consider making it an episode of CNP until 2022, but having a full segment of the characters fit into the narrative is ultimately what I decided would work best from my own edition of this classic narrative.

The film process started September 7th 2022, and the initial version was finished September 15th.
After a review process by the QA team, I sent it to John Romero to make him aware of it's development. I returned to the edit to create the additional ending discussion in an hour on February 1st, 2023.

It's interesting to say this is the first CNP that had a review process outside the general QA members, and reviewed by someone parodied in the episode. I wanted to be clear the plotline wasn't some kind of bashing to John, because he rocks. The episode follows the plot of the original machinima film from 1996, humor changes after 30 years, didn't want it to be seen as being a jerk without the context.

I reached out with the initial September version just to have some correspondence prior to its release. Wanted to ensure it didn't show up later without his knowledge, and come off as bashing in any way. John's a legend, and I'm looking forward to Sigil 2!

I haven't had much time to drastically add and change videos at this time, only returning to the editing for a small time an hour a week at this point if I'm lucky.. My life has entered a very different point sadly. But in the reviews from QA and others, I made some more ending parts and sound effects since the initial version. I think it helped the final to have some more care in some parts. I considered having a bit more with the length in the February edit, but its already longer than the original film, and I don't have much time for further production past the censor versions and the final ones on my plate for the next 5 months.

I'm just glad to finally have my own version of this after nearly 20 years of making machinima myself. Its an important milestone of machinima, gaming, and internet history. The efforts of those players making that original film, have not gone unrecognized by myself. It was an obvious candidate for the legacy series in 2023. It began as "D" in the alphabet series initial production focus, and ultimately became what we see here today. 27 years of machinima technologic advancements.

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