Our first peek at WarGames—Her Story creator Sam Barlow’s next project—in December was not particularly revealing: we found out that it’s an interactive series re-imagining the 1983 film of the same name, but that was about it. Now we know that, in Barlow’s own words, it’s a “choice-based story without choices” that plays out across a number of different viewpoints. In Her Story you decided which video clips to watch, and in what order, piecing together the murder mystery story at your own pace. WarGames, a story about a group of hackers trying to better society, is more hands-off and the only decision you make is which perspective to view it from. Basically, the story is constantly moving forward, and at any point you’ll have multiple video feeds to choose from. You can try to watch them all on screen at once or focus your attention on a particular feed. Based on which one you choose, the story will change. “[It’s] a way of gauging your interest, gauging your opinion about the show. And those would be your choices, and then we would use that to steer the story,” Barlow told The Verge. The story will release in episodes of a set length. He says the main purpose of the approach is to make the viewer feel like they’re “hanging out online” with the characters. “The guiding feeling that we wanted to have here was the sense that you were hanging out with these people. Most of the content is… [Read full story]