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''. Featured during the launch of the website machinima.com, the work was initially controversial among machining filmmakers because it was created and distributed in a conventional video file format, whereas previous machinima films were demo files that required the original game to view. However, the more accessible format broadened ''Quad God''s viewership, and, in a few years, the use of conventional video formats became nearly universal for machinima.

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