The Elitist and the Little Guy
This community never ceases to inspire me, and lately discussions have been mentioning "elitists" and "big boys" that are said to often step on the little guys, discouraging them from participating and stirring up negative vibes. I'd like to discuss this alleged turf war, it’s principles, and what to expect.

In the entertainment world we hear about celebrities storming out of award ceremonies, critics tearing apart great films out of distaste for the director, and …  More

Are you Dual Booting or running Multiple Computers to improve Program Performance?
Have you ever opened your productivity (work) software and watched it run sluggishly because your computer is overloaded with useless crap you've installed and forgotten about? Or maybe you've configured a dual boot system to optimize your productivity software, leaving typical internet browsing/gaming separated by a partition. If you're totally crazy, you might even have a pile of computers and monitors, each with…  More

Introduction
Since we began creating Machinima, configuring hard drives and finding space for projects has been an endless battle. Capturing video can stack up terabytes of data on your computer and chances are you’re going to need to plan ahead so you don’t run out. Before I started a career in Machinima, I was an Information Technology consultant and am A+ and Microsoft Certified. My experience with computers and technology has been valuable in helping to decide how to plan ahead for our growin…  More

Introduction
This is a continuation of a series of blogs titled “Blizzard & Machinima Law”. The purpose of this series is to help inform and educate the Machinima community on the acceptable ways you can create movies using World of Warcraft. This article will help you understand Private Servers, their impact on Machinima, and Blizzard’s zero tolerance policy.

What are Private Servers?
Private Servers are applications developed by 3rd parties who reverse engineer World of Warcraft’s proprietary…  More

Introduction
This is a continuation of a series of blogs titled “Blizzard & Machinima Law”. The purpose of this series is to help inform and educate the Machinima community on the acceptable way you can create movies using World of Warcraft. Today’s topic is Music. If you’ve ever entered a Machinima contest you probably know that Blizzard has always allowed you to use music from their games. While this gives you a lot of options, some of you may choose other music. While there’s nothing wrong…  More

Introduction!
If you’ve ever considered a career as an independent Machinima producer, especially if you’re producing it using World of Warcraft, I highly encourage you to read this blog. Over the course of these blogs, I’m going to summarize the discussions I’ve had with Blizzard Entertainment over the past several years and share my interpretation of their stance and how they feel about Machinima, Machinima Law, Fair-use, commercialization, how to legitimately get money to create WoW Machinima,…  More

Introduction
This is a continuation of a series of blogs titled “Blizzard & Machinima Law”. The purpose of this series is to help inform and educate the Machinima community on the acceptable way you can create movies using World of Warcraft. Today’s topic is Blizzard’s Machinima Fair-Use Guide, and while the document is pretty easy to understand, there have been several cases that I’ve made mistakes and have been co…  More

It's probably a good time to outline what you should be discussing here on Myndflame. Our visitors come here to read more about Machinima, our community, the publishers, their techniques, software, or other topics that are directly related to Machinima, primarily using World of Warcraft.

With that in mind, you're welcome to create blogs to discuss and share your productions, knowledge, or involvement in Machinima or in this community. Good examples of topics are sound and audio production, music…  More

Gameriot's Getting Started Guide
By Myndflame

In this guide, we'll go over the site's main features and front page and explain some of the core functionality. If you're new to publishing or participating on the site, this is a good place to start!

The Front Page:
The Front Page is a quick way to see an overview of all the content on the website.It is composed of the following content:

Summary of Content:

Community Selection Box
Registration Button
E-Mail & Password Login Box
Member Info - Settings, H…  More

Myndflame Video Publishing Guide

For Gameriot 2.0

Written by: Myndflame

 

So you want to add your videos to the Myndflame Machinima portal? First let's check to make sure you meet the requirements.

 

PUBLISHER REQUIREMENTS:

1. You have at least one video that is made in-part or entirely using footage from a video game, multiple games, objects, images, textures, or models extracted from video games or is a tutorial, documentary, or information guide of some sort with direct relevance to Machinima crea…  More