{"id":13728,"date":"2024-06-17T05:58:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T05:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/17\/as-spicy-as-you-want-it-interactive-fiction-games-put-forward-a-new-kind-of-narrative\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T05:58:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T05:58:21","slug":"as-spicy-as-you-want-it-interactive-fiction-games-put-forward-a-new-kind-of-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/17\/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><\/p>","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","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}