Branching out: Creating interactive episodes

While voice looks set to revive the 1980s Fighting Fantasy series on Alexa, what are the production considerations?

Reports that Netflix is using a forthcoming episode of Charlie Brooker’s scripted anthology series Black Mirror to pilot an interactive ‘choose your own adventure’ feature conjures up memories of those 1980s Fighting Fantasy role-playing books

At their peak authors Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson, also the co-founders of Games Workshop, sold 20m copies of the multiple choice adventure books, which saw readers confront orcs and mirror demons - before the video game explosion eclipsed the book format.“

Now the genre is set to make a comeback on a TV/ mobile/ Alexa device near you, thanks to a raft of new technologies and SVODs keen to expand their subscriber base.

Scholastic, meanwhile, has…