{"id":14863,"date":"2024-06-16T14:38:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T12:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/16\/as-spicy-as-you-want-it-interactive-fiction-games-put-forward-a-new-kind-of-narrative\/"},"modified":"2024-06-16T14:38:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T12:38:04","slug":"as-spicy-as-you-want-it-interactive-fiction-games-put-forward-a-new-kind-of-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/16\/as-spicy-as-you-want-it-interactive-fiction-games-put-forward-a-new-kind-of-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"As spicy as you want it: interactive fiction games put forward a new kind of narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once derided for saucy advertisements and romance novel plots, these mobile games are venturing into the mainstream<\/p>\n<p>In late May, in a $58m Bel Air hilltop mansion, influencers, reality stars and other Angelenos milled around Netflix-branded TV screens displaying choices to be made: Are you a Gemini or a Capricorn? What color are your eyes? What is your occupation? The party marked the launch of the streaming giant\u2019s latest offering: a slate of Choose Your Own Adventure-style mobile games inspired by its most popular reality television shows, and attendees were selecting the traits of their digital avatars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI better be a character!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2020\/aug\/01\/netflix-selling-sunset\">Selling Sunset<\/a> star Jason Oppenheim exclaimed as he paused near the top of a staircase that led to a reflecting pool with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/netflix\">Netflix<\/a> logo floating in it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/article\/2024\/jun\/16\/interactive-fiction-game-apps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a96b13bca08df6657df0a4557ebf9fb967148298\/0_108_1620_972\/master\/1620.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=07cfa75616e03a2ff196722bda5431af\" title=\"As spicy as you want it: interactive fiction games put forward a new kind of narrative\" \/>Once derided for saucy advertisements and romance novel plots, these mobile games are venturing into the mainstream<br \/>\nIn late May, in a $58m Bel Air hilltop mansion, influencers, reality stars and other Angelenos milled around Netflix-branded TV screens displaying choices to be made: Are you a Gemini or a Capricorn? What color are your eyes? What is your occupation? The party marked the launch of the streaming giant\u2019s latest offering: a slate of Choose Your Own Adventure-style mobile games inspired by its most popular reality television shows, and attendees were selecting the traits of their digital avatars.<br \/>\n\u201cI better be a character!\u201d Selling Sunset star Jason Oppenheim exclaimed as he paused near the top of a staircase that led to a reflecting pool with the Netflix logo floating in it. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once derided for saucy advertisements and romance novel plots, these mobile games are venturing into the mainstream In late May, in a $58m Bel Air hilltop mansion, influencers, reality stars and other Angelenos milled around Netflix-branded TV screens displaying choices to be made: Are you a Gemini or a Capricorn? What color are your eyes? &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/16\/as-spicy-as-you-want-it-interactive-fiction-games-put-forward-a-new-kind-of-narrative\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As spicy as you want it: interactive fiction games put forward a new kind of narrative<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14863"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}