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The Name of the Game

2018 · Film · documentary · 95 min

Directed by Jarno Elonen, Paul J. Vogel

Documentary

The Name of the Game is a feature-length documentary about the team up between the legendary arcade game designer, Eugene Jarvis, and the Finnish game developer, Housemarque. The end result of the collaboration was the critically acclaimed PS4/PC title Nex Machina. The film gives the audience an unprecedented access to the unpredictable and plain crazy world of making a video game – uncensored.

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  1. PositiveZeroGravitasAug 2, 2023

    More modern games in the same lineage (connected by Eugene Jarvis) are:

    * Smash TV

    * Total Carnage

    * Nex Machina (which has a documentary following it's creation called "The Name of the Game" currentnly on Netflix)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Jarvis