Recently I had been nursing two ideas that I thought were really unique / interesting: In my June links post, I included this bullet: “SKAM the radical teen drama that unfolds one post at a time: can’t believe it’s taken this long for people to really experiment with incorporating social into “tv shows” / entertainment.” I’ve hinted at this a few times, but I’ve always thought it was crazy more companies haven’t experimented with the power of the internet to offer more interactive types of media (almost all media seems to be made with the traditional limitations of linear TV in mind) The simplest and most appealing experiment I’ve always been interested is thinking about a “choose your own adventure” type of show where you could make key choices for characters and, by doing so, have your own semi-customized TV show with variable endings. As you start to think about that type of TV show, you quickly realize that it already exists; it’s just called a video game. Once you start thinking about that, it becomes pretty obvious that all of media (including Netflix) is going to need to get into the video game space in a much bigger way at some point in the future. That day is probably still a way into the future, but I think it's inevitable the lines blur at some point.
Plagiarism and Adding Value
Plagiarism and Adding Value
Plagiarism and Adding Value
Recently I had been nursing two ideas that I thought were really unique / interesting: In my June links post, I included this bullet: “SKAM the radical teen drama that unfolds one post at a time: can’t believe it’s taken this long for people to really experiment with incorporating social into “tv shows” / entertainment.” I’ve hinted at this a few times, but I’ve always thought it was crazy more companies haven’t experimented with the power of the internet to offer more interactive types of media (almost all media seems to be made with the traditional limitations of linear TV in mind) The simplest and most appealing experiment I’ve always been interested is thinking about a “choose your own adventure” type of show where you could make key choices for characters and, by doing so, have your own semi-customized TV show with variable endings. As you start to think about that type of TV show, you quickly realize that it already exists; it’s just called a video game. Once you start thinking about that, it becomes pretty obvious that all of media (including Netflix) is going to need to get into the video game space in a much bigger way at some point in the future. That day is probably still a way into the future, but I think it's inevitable the lines blur at some point.