Telltale has just announced a bizarre project that will combine both video games and TV programs. They call this endeavor a “Super Show” in which a good portion of the show will be scripted TV content as you would expect, but another part of the show will involve choice-style gameplay as we have seen from Telltale in the past. Telltale CEO Kevin Bruner explains the formula a bit more to Entertainment Weekly.
“A ‘Super Show’ episode combines one part of interactive playable content with one part of scripted television style content,” Bruner said. “Both pieces, when combined together, are what make an actual Super Show ‘episode.’ As we’ve been developing the series, we’re using both mediums in concert to deliver our story. Developing both aspects simultaneously is key to utilizing this new medium. Both parts are first-class citizens during the writing and design process. It’s not an interactive series with a show, or a TV show with a game, but a story integrated in a way that only Telltale can do. For us it’s a very natural evolution of the interactive storytelling expertise we’ve pioneered.”
Essentially, imagine watching a weekly show, like you might with Game of Thrones , but every week you make decisions and your watching experience is largely based on the decisions you made last week.
“For instance, if you play the interactive episode first, certain elements of the scripted episode portion will be tailored to reflect some choices made in your interactive playthrough,” Bruner said. “If you watch the show before playing, some elements in the interactive portions may be presented differently than if you played first. The interactive episodes will never release without a scripted episode, they will always come out together.”
“Our goal is to create products that have a legitimate chance of winning both a Golden Globe and a Game of the Year,” he said. “This means both aspects of the productions must be first-class work.”
Source: Entertainment Weekly