StarCitizen:Machinima
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Machinima are movies made by utilizing the 3D graphics of video games such as StarCitizen:Star Citizen. Initially called machinema in 1998, it's a misspelled portmanteau of the words machine and cinema.<ref>34: Machinima, Jenna Ng, Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon, The MIT Press, ISBN-13 978-0262034197 </ref>
Star Citizen
Star Citizen's FOIP is particularly useful for machinima.
With the game being in alpha, technical issues are common, so players tend to chose to keep their filming teams small to mitigate disconnection issues, or work those issues such as T-posing into their story.<ref>Quantum Vegas 2955: Session 3: "The Art of Machinima" with Nate Ellis, Quantum Vegas 2955, Youtube, 23 July 2025</ref>
Cloud Imperium Games has held official machinima contests with rewards.<ref>Template:Cite RSI</ref>
Some Star Citizen players who made Machinimas ended up working for CIG, such as AlexS189 who became Junior Marketing Artist working on cinematic StarCitizen:ship commercials.<ref>Alex189 Interview | BritizenCon - UK Star Citizen Fan Convention, BritizenCon, Youtube, 4 may 2018</ref>
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Some machinimas have been particularly noticed by the community:
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