Comedy Film About RPGs?

October 12, 2012 11:37 AM

A comedy film about table-top gaming.

I saw a preview a few years ago for an independent, documentary style comedy about a group of table top gamers that looked awesome, and I can not find it anywhere. Google, logically, keeps turning up "The Gamers" and "Gamers" but it was neither of those, so please don't pop in to say, "Was it Gamers or perhaps The Gamers?", because it was not.

posted by mikoroshi to media & arts (11 answers total)

Was it full-length or a short film? "Fear of Girls" springs to mind, but it is a short film.
posted by griphus at 11:41 AM on October 12, 2012

I'm almost certain it was a feature.
posted by mikoroshi at 11:47 AM on October 12, 2012

Was it RPG?
http://imdb.com/title/tt1451411/
posted by ShutterBun at 11:51 AM on October 12, 2012

Any of these?

Gamerz (not the same as Gamers)
Assemblage of the Crystal Sphere
Welcome to Reality
Fellowship of the Dice
Thaco
posted by camcgee at 11:55 AM on October 12, 2012

Maybe The Politics of Competitive Board Gaming Amongst Friends (featured in a post on MetaFilter)
posted by exogenous at 12:13 PM on October 12, 2012

None of these. Perhaps it was never released.
posted by mikoroshi at 2:44 PM on October 12, 2012

Ask Wil Wheaton! He does a podcast now about gaming and might dig into it just to use as material. http://tabletop.geekandsundry.com
posted by wenestvedt at 6:44 PM on October 12, 2012

Of Dice and Men? (It's a play, not a documentary.)

There's also a short documentary of the same name about Risk, it's part of a collection from Microcosm Publishing.
posted by momus_window at 9:48 AM on October 14, 2012

Had to do some digging to a movie that I made a mental note to see when it came out.

Could it be Zero Charisma?

Boing Boing post

IndieGoGo page (Goal Met!)

The Facebooks
posted by PlutoniumX at 10:36 AM on October 15, 2012

Sinus Supremas!

(sorry, not helping)
posted by ShutterBun at 3:41 AM on October 18, 2012

Popping in to say that this came over the neighborhood mailing list tonight. Was it perhaps not The Gamers but The Gamers: Dorkness Rising? Also, did you see that great episode of Community?

"The Gamers" came out in 2002. The sequel "The Gamers: Dorkness Rising" came out in 2008. The new movie is a sequel to "Dorkness Rising" and may have another title. My niece's friend was at Gen Con in Indianapolis this fall to film the first segment.
posted by sudama at 4:47 PM on October 24, 2012