WarGames gets rebooted as an interactive hacking TV show
Guest Contribution
In 2015, British game designer Sam Barlow released a police procedural called Her Story, a game that was almost entirely about watching videos. Players were presented with a virtual computer and a police database, where they could search keywords to bring up relevant clips from an interrogation video. By the end, you unravel the mystery behind a complex homicide, simply by typing words, watching videos, and maybe taking some notes. Yet it was incredibly compelling, sucking you into a non-linear mystery buoyed by the performance of Viva Seifert as traumatized widow Hannah Smith.
“One of the things I liked about Her Story was this sense of intimacy that you got through it being an interactive experience, but also the way it used video,”…
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