[Company] Rulez!
![[Company] Rulez!](/images/[Company]Rulez_320x162.jpg "[Company] Rulez!")
Thank you for your interest in what has been happening with Microsoft and machinima lately. This film was originally designed to not only satirize the rules, but organize support for a petition to change them.
Before the film could be released, some key members of the machinima community had a conference call with Microsoft... and Microsoft listened! They have since revised and clarified the rules to better serve machinima creators, and most of the issues we'd have asked for your help raising have already been addressed. All it took was a phone call, in which it was discovered that they'd already been listening to concerned players! You can read all about it via the coverage below.
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- Featured Pick at Stage6.com (December, 2007)
- Microsoft’s Game Content Usage Rules
- See also: COPS and Robbers (a movie of similar theme, released right after the rules were published)
- LATEST NEWS: Hugh Hancock on the Machinima For Dummies blog
- Selected Internet coverage of Microsoft’s Usage Rules:
- Paul Marino of the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences
- Mark Methinitis of Vernon Goodrich, LLP - Article 1, Article 2, Article 3, Article 4, Article 5
- Tony Walsh at Clickable Culture
- Analysis on the Citizen Game blog
- Coverage on the overcast: a machinima podcast - episode #020
- DonkeyXote’s blog (Microsoft) - Article 1, Article 2, Article 3 pending
- Hugh Hancock on the Machinima For Dummies blog - Article 1, Article 2, Article 3
- Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Directed and Produced by Evan Ryan and Phil Rice.
Screenplay, Narration, and Music / Sound by Phil “Overman” Rice
[COMPANY] Rulez! was created under Microsoft’s “Game Content Usage Rules” using assets from HALO 2, © Microsoft Corporation.
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They make you guys go through all that for their games? What a load of crap! I’m not a machinima artist, but some of those rules are just way too deliberate. I understand the “no purchasing” and the “no CCL”, but no game music? Or mentioning the game’s name?
Argh!
Comment by Bryan — December 28, 2007 @ 9:04 am
xD these rules are so retarded!
Comment by raptordragon34 — January 21, 2008 @ 3:45 pm
thats funny
Comment by Jordan — October 27, 2008 @ 8:05 pm