Charlie Brooker’s new tackle a choose-your-own-adventure FMV game is now an Emmy winner, claiming the award for excellent tv film.
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch received out over Deadwood: The Movie, Brexit, My Dinner With Herve and King Lear, and successfully turned the primary tv film with interactive, game-like components to win an Emmy award.
Bandersnatch, which is unique to Netflix, is a choose-your-own-adventure narrative a couple of game programmer (Fionn Whitehead) in 1984 who (in most threads you’ll be able to comply with) begins to lose his thoughts whereas engaged on his game, Bandersnatch. It’s chock stuffed with gaming Easter eggs.
In hisacceptance speech (as reported on by The Hollywood Reporter), Charlie Brooker made certain to thank Netflix’s technical staff for making the interactive film attainable.
Whether or not this counts as the primary game to win a movie Emmy is up for debate, however as an interactive expertise the place your selections impression the narrative, one with multiple endings to discover and a few mild puzzle components, we’re inclined to say that it counts.
FMV games are making one thing of a comeback proper now, with PlayStation’s Erica standing as one other robust instance of an interactive narrative expertise. Black Mirror has aired 5 seasons, however Bandersnatch stands individually as its personal factor.
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