a game-film! Descent to the Underworld is an online game based on the Orpheus and Eurydice story and related myths. Players, instead of winning points, win scenes from a film. At the end of the game-play, the scenes are automatically edited and streamed to the player. Because the scenes depend on the direction taken in the game, each game-play results in a different film.

Descent to the Underworld began as a collaborative university project using Internet2 and Access Grid video software to link eight universities around the world, creating a multipoint, multinational production studio. Students worked together in this next-gen online studio to create media files for the game-film. The Access Grid has also been used for large-scale distributed meetings, collaborative work sessions, seminars, lectures, tutorials, and training.