This is how 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' was made, Netflix's first interactive production for adults

The creators of 'Black Mirror', Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones, and the protagonists of the last episode talk about this interesting experience that could mark the evolution of interactive fiction.

Frosties or Sugar Puffs? The Thompson Twins or Now 2? Explore the sets or meet the characters? Find out more about Charlie Brooker or Fionn Whitehead? These are some of the questions that viewers have had to answer to “navigate” the last chapter of Black Mirror released by Netflix on December 28.

The viewer thus marked the plot from his remote control in an apparently linear experience, without waiting or jumping, choosing the path followed by the protagonist of this chapter titled Bandersnatch. In it, a young programmer begins to question reality in 1984 as he adapts a fantasy novel to turn it into a video game and soon faces an incredible mental challenge.

Depending on the option chosen, and thanks to sophisticated technology that Netflix had already tested in animation productions, the viewer experiences very different plots.

Netflix has just now released a video, awaiting the premiere of the fifth season of the popular series, in which the creators of Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker y Annabel Jones, and the protagonists of the episode talk about this interesting experience that could mark the evolution of interactive fictions.

Although similar experiments based on the “Choose your own adventure” concept have been carried out throughout the history of film and television, in the purest style of the gamebooks of the eighties, Netflix's technological experience provides a linearity in the narrative without artifice or waiting, achieving a “wow” effect on the viewer when they see how without any pause the protagonist “obeys” the orders given to him from the remote control.

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