''Über Goober A Film About Gamers'' is a 2004

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documentary film A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...

focusing on people who play

role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out ...

s. The film was directed by Steve Metze and features interviews with

Gary Gygax Ernest Gary Gygax ( ; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering tabletop role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') with Dave Arneson. In the 1960s, Gygax creat ...

Peter Adkison Peter D. Adkison is an American game designer and businessman who is the founder of Wizards of the Coast, where he held the role of CEO from 1993 to 2001. During Adkison's tenure, Wizards of the Coast rose to the status of a major publisher in ...

, Mike Stackpole and

Bob Larson Bob Larson (born May 28, 1944) is an American radio and Televangelism, television evangelist, and a pastor of Spiritual Freedom Church in Phoenix, Arizona. Larson has authored numerous books critical of rock music and Satanism. Life and career ...

, amongst others. The film has screened at theatres,

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, and gaming conventions, winning the award for "Best Film" at

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, 2004.

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