The Playground and the Stage (Ep. 5)
Gamecraft
How Did Streaming Video Games Become a Thing?
In Quake, ID had included this ability to basically stream the game to a file that could then be replayed. This concept back in that day was called machinima. It was this portmanteau of machine and cinema. And that's how it was born essentially. But again, clunky is all hell and not really something that you could see scaling. You wouldn't ever reach the scale of selling 200 million copies of Minecraft if you didn't have all these other people on the side.
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