It seems like all the cool companies that had awesome 3d web plugins are dead now. That's sad but probably good because browser plugins totally suck but HTML 5 and WebGL will fix all of that soon. Anyway, I thought it would be fun to revisit some of my old Multipath Movies from Brilliant Digital. If you have never heard of these, well you missed out! They were cool interactive, real-time 3d movies that let you choose the direction of the movie. You were given choices during the movie and had to select what the characters would do next. It was a lot of fun because there were always multiple outcomes and of course it was always fun picking the worst outcome! :)
These movies weren't around very long and there's like no information on the web anywhere about these sweet movie/games so I guess I'll provide the info!
Just a side note... the graphics in Multipath Movies are SUPER outdated but I think it's fun watching crappy low-resolution textures on LOW polygon count models. Not sure why...
Here are some pix from the Choose Your Own Nightmare series. I only have the Halloween Party in this series. This movie is about two main characters Beth and Peter. They're invited to a Halloween party in their apartment building by some new girl named Meg. They soon find out that Meg is a witch and so is her mom. Meg's mom plays a game with Beth and Peter that they have to survive all the scares during the night or they will be turned into what they wear! So since Beth doesn't want to be a cat the rest of her life and Peter doesn't want to be a zombie, you have to help them survive! Pretty fun movie. :)
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My kids were given Halloween Party/Night of the Werewolf from there Aunt and they think its great!!It is sad to hear that they are no longer around :( My kids are asking for more...It will be tough to tell them this is all they are gonna get :(
I used to work for BDI in Sydney years ago. It was fun stuff to work on. I worked on Gravities Angles, Ace Ventura and Popeye. Nice Idea its a shame it has not kicked off to a larger degree.
@luke025 That's awesome you got to work on these movies! :) I thought they were the coolest thing on the web and watched/played them a lot.
I know BDI tried getting into interactive ads but it seemed like that didn't take off too well. Not sure why they weren't around for a long time. I know at one point you could license their tools to build movies but they were way too expensive for a kid. :)
Well, at least I have a couple of BD movies still!
@brian Yeah, it's sad there are not more of these movies but I think there's still a select few floating around on ebay.
Love these movies, I actually own all of them... found them all in a torrent file on the internet. I really like playing with them from time to time. Gravity Angels is my favorite.
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