Friday, July 15, 2005

Invention: Choose your own Adventure

Remember those books where at a certain point in the story, you came to a crossroads and it would say "If you'd like to stab the Mexican, turn to page 23. If you leave him be but steal his tequila, turn to page 38"? Well I think it would be cool to have a cartoon version of this, but with actual controls where you can choose with your remote control somehow. It would have to be hooked into On Demand somehow maybe.

My vision is to have several different recurring characters/different stories. One day may be a super futuristic star wars type episode, and then there could be like a teenage girl comedy/drama, and another day a medieval type fantasy, etc etc. Just before the commercial break, the screen freezes and it gives you two (or more) options. Will Jen, the awkward teen, go on the date with wholesome Charlie or Jake the badass? Should our medieval adventurers storm the castle walls or sneak in as a troupe of acrobats? A new decision and possibility before every commercial break.

Here are some upsides to this. For one, there is obvious replay value. You can watch the same episode 15 times and get a different story every time. The different stories also make it interesting, rather than just having one storyline throughout the whole series. Also for fun there could be a crossover between 'worlds,' maybe the futuristic space people go back in time and have to team up with the adventurers. Or they have to go on a date with Jen or whatever.

The obvious problem would be the technology to do it. I think On Demand should have the capabilities, since you surf through guides and stuff with your remote. And it would need another name besides Choose your Own Adventure since that's taken. The aforementioned story lines are just examples, not meant to be definite or restricted to those genres etc etc. Comment now.

2 Comments:

At 2:47 PM, Blogger infiorno said...

You can make a flash website that does that also... like people have made before. That's not as fun as an on demand though.

I made a powerpoint presentation version of a choose your own adventure marketed to college students for my innovation management class. It was pretty ghetto, but it had the point.

If you did get on demand to let you do these cartoons I think they would be a big hit in a cult classic way.

Why are you still an accountant again?

 
At 3:56 PM, Blogger Romeo Foxtrot said...

FUCK i dunno.

Basically because I have $2,500 or so of unreimbursed expenses per month and the risk of not being able to pay for this stuff is scary. Yet I don't have enough free time really to position myself to become independent. Quite the catch 22

 

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