Matt: “Coline Gattolin, an amazing member of the Netflix Interactive team, put it in a way I always think of; that interactivity is a sliding scale — with totally passive content on one end (a normal TV show you sit and watch) and completely interactive on the other end (something like Minecraft). And a piece of art can sit anywhere on that scale. There are some video games that have a lot of cutscenes and guided sections (passive elements) and now we’re seeing passive forms of entertainment (TV and movies) include more interactive elements. I think we’re still in a time of experimentation,
and Battle Kitty is a really exciting experiment that we hope pays off!”
Paul: “We’re in a time where it feels like game designers want to be storytellers, and filmmakers want to make games (see Hideo Kojima’s sweeping cinematic epics, or J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Games). Perhaps it’s always been that way, but I feel like we now have the tools to see what that looks like in real terms. It’s a time of experimentation for us creatives to see where the perfect spot on that sliding scale may be, but I also think there’s still plenty of room for purely compelling storytelling and purely satisfying games.”
Matt & Paul Layzell