If you’ve never heard of Chatroulette before, basically it pairs you up with random strangers who are using it, and from there you get to chat with new people, or maybe if by some random stroke of luck you actually bump into a friend or someone you know, although admittedly that kind of defeats the point.
In any case taking advantage of the platform, a British film company called Realm Pictures has put together a first person shooter that uses Chatroulette. Basically when users connect to their account, they are greeted by a first person shooter screen, and from there they were told to give instructions to the person on what to do.
Speaking to Mashable, the video’s director David Reynolds said, “Many years ago we experimented with the concept of ‘random stranger’ control – and one afternoon strapped a webcam to my head while someone followed me around with a laptop. The idea stuck in my head – and eventually resurfaced while we were talking about fun projects for the summer. We decided to throw some of our indie film tricks behind it and see what happened.”
The end result is a game that is played out in real-life. According to Reynolds, there were about 30 people involved. “We had about 30 people here, manning the control room, playing zombies, running around collecting nerf darts. It was a great weekend – really good atmosphere, everybody had a lot of fun I think.” If you’d like to check it out, you can do so in the video above. Alternatively you can watch the behind-the-scenes footage below.
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