Netflix has published a very strange simulation game called Thonglets which is linked to the new Black mirror The episode of season 7 called Toy.
It is a simple game based on retro graphics where you cultivate your small animals nicknamed the bottlenecks in a simulation. If you look at the Toy Episode (n ° 7 in the new season), you will understand what this game is and what could be wrong with a SIM game of simple life. As it is simple Stranger Things games, it’s still another bet on games for Netflix game business.
“This is Tamagotchi who went wrong,” said Shaun Krenkel, founder of Night School Studio, a studio belonging to Netflix, who made glasses. Now Director General of Games, Krenkel was speaking during a conference Netflix event on secret game developers where Charlie Brooker, creator of Black Mirror Show on Netflix, was listening to Vicio Call.
The game episode brought back Colin Ritman (played by Will Poulter), the Wacko game designer by Black Mirror: Bandersnch, an interactive film that allowed viewers to choose the way they wanted the plot to take place. Written by Brooker and directed by David Slade, Bandersnch made his debut in 2018 as historical transmedia event. He won two Emmy Awards. Ritman worked for Tuckersoft, who is credited for having created bottlenecks, and was led by Mohan “Mo” Thakur (Asim Chaudhry), who also returns to the new episode. A game designer named Stefan interacts with Ritman and Tuckersoft, and that doesn’t go well.
In the new game episode, a Ritman formerly undressing is back in a show directed by Slade and writes again by Brooker. I will have to spoil part of the first part of the game episode here.
In 2034, Cameron Walker (played by Peter Capaldi) was an older man with wildly long gray hair. He was arrested for theft and the police find that he wanted to murder. Under interrogation, he faces a cynical detective James Nelson Joyce (DCI Kano) and a more human psychotherapist named Michele Austin (Jen Minter). To explain himself and the crime, Walker brings us back in 1994, when the young Walker (Lewis Gibben) examined games for a video game magazine (do you remember these?).
Ritman invites the young Walker, a kind of neurodiverse game criticism which is annoying with people, to come and visit Tuckersoft and review his new game. Walker Va and Ritman is always rude, noting that Walker “lack of confidence” in real life but is “Stident” in writing and is now as “someone who is ashamed that they exist”. Walker is a penuded but Ritman says that it is a rational response in a terrifying world.
Ritman claims that his new work is not at all a game, but he must call it as well as marketing specialists know what to do with it. Rather than having a bunch of conflicts, as most games have done, this game simply concerns life and breeding your bottles and letting them multiply.
“You can’t control them,” Ritman told Walker. “They are living individuals.”
Then he shows Walker the game, which is bottlenecks. Walker steals the disc and brings him home and becomes obsessed with the breeding of his little creatures. Then, the usual black mirror vibrations that take over, the usual things of the black mirror occur, and before knowing it, the episode fades in black.
In the game, you start with a single ganglet and your goal is to take care of them. You can feed an apple, wash them with a sponge or entertain them with a beach ball. If you succeed, the bottlenecks multiply, double each time. It’s a kind of addictive Sim game, but you somehow know that it will not go in the direction of a Tamagotchi game. I’m going to leave that.
The new Black Mirror season is making its debut today, with episode n ° 7 Playing. And you can also get the game today. It is a fairly cool transmedia of Netflix, and it shows that it is always one of the only companies that can publish a television program and a game on the same subject the same day.
The creators describe the episode and the game
“It’s a very non -traditional game, and it was a dream of working on something like that,” said Krenkel.
It started years ago when Krenkel, who was a fan of Bandersnch, had launched a match in Brooker. Brooker refused it, but it gave Krenkel an opening to shed again later. When he heard of the Playyst episode to come back with a story of the game industry, Krenkel made the ground.
This time, he was accepted, and they managed to break the fourth wall again, this time by playing a game in real life based on a game in a television program.
“The thing about Black Mirror is that you can’t just do a kind of standard game, right? He must have an unexpected element,” said Brooker. “And have quite disturbing and dark things that happen. It was then that it really started to feed on the episode itself and the creatures themselves.”
Krenkel said: “It was super fun…. There is a game that seems that it could be lemmings or an early life card. But it has much more under the cover that occurs.”
He noted that the game and spectacle teams had come inspired.
He said he wanted you to care about your crowd in the game, and it will take you in interesting directions while you play there.
