Journey Quest

Speaking of gaming, I was sent a DVD in the mail recently by an old high school buddy. The DVD is a low budget film titled The Gamers: Dorkness Rising. It follows the lives of a group of role players trying to complete a Dungeons and Dragons module. For anyone familiar with role playing games, this film is extremely funny.

It has the harried DM (Dungeon Master) trying to tell a story while the players whine and make nuisances of themselves. It has a player who argues and contests every DM decision as being against the set rules (we call this type of player a Rules Monger). It has the newbie gamer who wants to do well but is hesitant to do anything. It has the player who is just there for a good time and so casts spells, kills NPCs (non player characters) and in general goofs around whenever he becomes bored with the DM's story.

From what I have discovered since, this film and another titled The Gamers, by the same writer/director are often shown at SciFi and gaming conventions around the United States.

Well, I was on the main website today (www.the-gamers.com) and I saw that the same writers and producers have been working on a new project. It is another fantasy themed story, only this time done as webisodes, and it premiers on September 28th! Yay!

If you are into this sort of thing, I've included the preview below to Journey Quest.