Proving that our digital young have entered the UGC pool, here’s the result of a 9-year-old writing a bit of fan fiction around the popular PC game “HalfLife”, and some folks from Fark.com enacting it with a HalfLife 2 level-design mod tool.
Edit: The embedded video above seems to not be cooperating. Here’s the direct link to it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxyZaZlaOs.
I remember writing my first stories as a young lad, scribbling away about haunted houses and spaceships on my wide-ruled paper, maybe acting them out later with my Star Wars action figures. Fast forward 25 years and we see over a million people sharing in this kid’s private universe.
Granted, he’s no Fred, but give him 10 years…
That clip needs to be nominated the 2008 Youtube Video of the Year. It literally brought tears to my eyes. Wow. For non-Half-Life gamers, you don’t really need to understand the game to get the gist of a 9-year-old’s imaginative fan-fiction storytelling skillz. How much FUN do you think Fark folks had with the story boarding for this?