The Movies demo out from Feral

I haven't done much gaming in recent years, sad to say; my "sweet rig" was a vintage IIci and three wraparound monitors for Hellcats, my secret vices were Shanghai II and SimCity 3000, and I suppose my peak frag-power was back in the days of Marathon. I've clearly missed a lot of gaming advances, so it wasn't until I caught the video for Jonathan Coulton's iHit Code Monkey on the machinima talk show Tra5shTa1k that I first heard of The Movies. Wow. You can make a music video while playing a game? Where the heck have I been?

You might think that a simulation of Hollywood filmmaking would appeal to right-brained creative-thinking Mac users, and apparently Feral Interactive thinks so too: the Mac port of The Movies is shipping now with a demo available for download. Be warned, the disk image weighs in at a nigh-unbelievable 800 megabytes. Perhaps it'd be easier to swing by Feral's booth at Macworld Expo (#4129) and play it there.

[via Macworld]