''Quad God'' is a 2000 film made by Tritin Films. It was created using the

machinima Machinima, originally machinema () is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production. Most often, video games are used to generate the computer animation. The word "machinima" is a portmanteau of the words ''ma ...

technique of recording video frames from id Software's 1999 first-person shooter (FPS) video game '' Quake III Arena''. 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

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, 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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