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On October 26, 1996, a well-known gaming clan, the Rangers, surprised the Quake community with Diary of a Camper, the first widely known machinima film.

This short, 100-second demo file contained the action and gore of many others, but in the context of a brief story, rather than the usual deathmatch.

An example of transformative or emergent gameplay, this shift from competition to theater required both expertise in and subversion of the game's mechanics.

The Ranger demo emphasized this transformation by retaining specific gameplay references in its story.