Your game in a movie?

Dear all,

My name is Sarie and I work for the Dutch company Rinkel Film. This summer we are shooting a movie called 'Silk Road', which is a psychological thriller. The movie will be directed by Emmy-award winner Mark de Cloe. Rinkel Film is also an international-oriented company with many co-productions, that also produced Lucia de B., which ended up on the Oscar-shortlist.

The two main-characters in our movie, two teenagers, are very good with computers and play a shooting-game against each other from at home in several scenes. Therefor, we are looking for a game we can use. If you have ever wanted your game to be in a movie, than this is your chance! If you are interested you can get in touch with me at sarieanne@rinkelfilm.com

Many thanks!

 

Hi there,

Sounds like a good opportunity for someone who is working on a shooting-game.

Does it have to be a multiplayer game or can it be a single player game?

Cheers

 

Have you considered approaching already existing game publishers?

 

Hi!

It would have to be a multi-player game, as two of our main characters would compete against each other.

Kind regards, Sarie

 

Yes, but the licensing fee's are over our budget.

 

Well, it doesn't have to be multiplayer, you could make it play against bots and then just do smart editing. Anyway, there are plenty of open-source and free shooters, such as Xonotic that could do the job as well (no fee for licensing and their devs would be happy to get some exposure).

 

Fair enough. You are always welcome to use Pond Wars. Not sure if it meets your needs exactly.

https://boredmormon.itch.io/pond-wars

Message me if you need a formal lisence.

 

Thanks for offering! Unfortunately, it does not meet the needs for what we need it. Thanks though!

 

Thanks for your suggestion! I've send Xonotic an e-mail. Do you have any other tips concerning open-souce shooting games?

 

Sauerbraten is also good.

 

You don't need to pay a licensing fee if the boys play a game as an expression of culture in a work in art. It's fair use, you are commenting on culture. If you wanted you could make a movie entirely based on playing a specific game as a cultural comment on the game.

 

Just for the record, the film was released in 2017 (Silk Road) and the selected game ended up being Cube 2 Sauerbraten, it's in the film as "Cube", and it's funny that it has a rather important role in the plot

by the way, Sauerbraten has an active community on Discord (sauerworld.org)