A slapping fight breaks out by the pool. The two cast members, no longer content to trade insults, lash out at each other in the frenzy of a schoolyard brawl. When the camera screen bounces, the producer runs as fast as he can to capture the footage.
The year is 1999, and players are producing the latest season of a popular reality show. The Crush House. That job includes selecting the cast, filming the drama, and above all, keeping the show on the air to satisfy an ever-changing audience. If it fails, it is canceled in the most traditional sense.
Until 2024, the role of “reality TV producer” was largely unknown to video game heroes. The Crush House End that trend. Part satire and part love letter to the indomitable industry of reality TV, this third-person shooter, due for release later this year, explores the genre in a fun and critical way. are doing.
crash house And this isn't the only reality TV-style title to make waves. this week. Content warninga co-op horror game where you try to film your friends and make them go viral, gained over 200,000 concurrent players after its April Fool's launch.
“When people talk about reality TV, they especially talk about men, but when men talk about reality TV, they don't really support it,” he says. They watch it with their girlfriends or call it their guilty pleasure. In other words, it's something you look at with irony. “I think this is generally true for many people.” [media-considered] “Women's interests.” Even though people are approaching this issue very critically, it is not being taken seriously. ”
Reality TV has the potential to be very fertile ground for game developers. As it stands, this is a one-way medium. The producer makes it. The audience watches. But those viewers also have a lot of interaction with the work. X, message boards, and group chats. There are many theories about the behind-the-scenes drama.If you like the title crash house If you can get players into the control room, you can get your finger on the pulse of gamers who want to engage in new ways.even something like Content warningwhich, while not based on a reality show per se, sparked a desire to capture reality and go viral, proving that there is a hunger for this kind of gameplay.
He originally thought jointly crash house as terraced house– Inspired Games – An ode to the 2015 Netflix show that offered a softer, lower-stakes version. Real World– Style drama. No one had fistfights, secret gossip, or incidents that became national scandals. They just encountered the everyday frictions that come with living with strangers.first prototype crash house It had a similar tone, and was about navigating how gentle people who live together in a house get along. “But it turned out to be boring,” he says.
Content warning spoofs its subject matter in a similar way, taking on the feel of a ghost hunter show or an influencer video. The goal is to become famous on “SpookTube”. If you can survive, the better footage you shoot, the more money you can make. Equipped with a flashlight and camera, players enter a world full of monsters and get what they need.
