Love “Black Mirror”? You can play the actual game from the episode “PlayThing” now
Netflix starts The seventh season of a black mirror on Thursday and with him streaming Giant released a mobile game called CrowdsGame to return the episode PlayThing. Thronglets is different from other Netflix games, as Too hot to deal withS Thronglets is a game in the Black Mirror universe, which is central to the game story, not just a game based on Black Mirror.
Leaving people playing the game in which the characters in the series play, Netflix opens a new avenue for people to interact and experience the stories that the service tells. After watching how the episode played and played the game, I thought, “Is this a joke? Where are the cameras?”
The whole experience made me feel restless. Certainly this is the question because I see that I get lost in the crowd. Not as far as the main character on PlayThing does, but enough to make me comply with the pushed signal that the game sends to my iPhone When the crowds ask for help.
Thronglets is a game in a black mirror that you can actually play
Playing the episode of Black Mirror is a tragedy that follows the long -standing spiral of the Game Journalist Cameron Walker (played by Lewis Gubben and Peter Capaldi). In his younger years, he was fascinated by a universal, still played game called-Galtepi. We meet Walker years later when he tells the police how he dedicated his life to the game.
The game in the episode was developed by fictitious Game developer Colin Ritman (Will Poulter) and Tuckersoft by Interactive Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Movie Netflix issued in 2018
Ritman describes the crowd as the first beings in history whose biology is entirely digital and these beings are capable of learning and expanding. This leads to devastating consequences for Walker and the people around it.
The Netflix game imitates that it is experiencing, letting you play it and raise a crowd to a huge and expanding society. This way you can get involved in digital creatures as Walker does in the show. Both the game and the episode work together to provide a deeper experience experience.
You need to provide your crowds what they need to grow and thrive.
Here’s how to start with Thronglets in Netflix Games and what you need to know about the game.
What are the crowd?
In the game they are yellow creatures with one antenna and large ears that are reproduced by mitosis – They are divided into two goals and full crowds. However, the first crowd is hatched by an egg, and in the game you have to touch the egg to make it hatch.
Can you control the crowds?
You can’t. As Ritman says in Playing, “They are not obscene puppets like Sonic the Hedgehog.” The crumbs wander and interact with things themselves, but you do not look at them only in the game.
Troples are something like Tamagochis as they need food, fun and cleanliness. You provide these things to the crowds by starting digital apples and beach balls on the screen or cleaning the crowd with virtual soap and sponge.
You can touch the individual crowds to see if they need food, fun or a bath, as presented by three bars, marked, fun and clean. If each of these bars is full, the crowd is happy. But if the Fed is low, for example, you can give a Thronglet apple by dropping one close to it and eating the apple. Similarly, if he has fun is low, drop a beach ball near Trong and watch him kick the ball through the fun screen.
Sometimes the crowd will show a speech balloon with an apple or a beach ball to tell you what he wants. Another time, the crowd will look visibly dirty and needs a bathroom. Sometimes a throne will squat and look crying – which is sad to see, and I just want to hug him.
If you do not meet Thronglet needs, it will die, eventually decomposes until nothing is left but bones.
The tropes can also talk to you. They will ask you questions and suggest how you should continue, such as using Thronglet bones to build a bridge next to another land.
Sometimes the crowds get this crazy look in their eyes. It’s not weird at all.
Wait … what?
Yes, this is a pretty terrible offer. But this leads to another aspect of the game. You are not just caring for the basic needs of Thronglets, but also teaching them how to hold each other.
The tropels will ask you questions like: What is power? And what is love? And you will be presented with two answers to choose from. Later in the game, when the crowds begin to industrialize, they will ask you if they should sleep in their homes or work more. However, you can answer that you want, but it is important to remember that the crowds see you as an almighty entity and you will do whatever you say.
So when I told the crowds not to work as hard and sleep as much as they need, they accepted my advice to heart, which led to more slow growth of resources. But they looked more fortunate.
Spiderman taught me about power and now I pass this knowledge to you, Thronglet.
And that seems to be the result of many of the choices that the crowds present you – whether you accumulate resources more or less quickly. Most of my chosen options were more relaxed, not to use bones to build a bridge and thus led to a more slow production. But these elections never stopped or stopped the game. I tried to choose the Kinder approach of every chance I received – I can’t make an evil run on any game.
Your actions also influence how the crowds see you. I accidentally killed a crowd with a chain saw when I cut some trees. A box appeared on the screen to inform me that this taught the crowds that the tools could be dangerous. It is unclear whether these cases have any effect on the game other than any comic relief, but I still tried to minimize future random deaths or accidents in the workplace.
After each stage you will see a screen with different statistics, how many crowds have died. You will also see the observations that have encountered you during the stage. Thronglets once noted that I taught them Shakespeare-which made my heart, which is very proud.
I also left some crowds to die of illness. I’m sorry, the crowd.
What is the purpose of the crowd?
This is a great question. For me, my goal was to help the crowds in any way. Sometimes it meant to build a theater for entertainment or cleaning of toxic waste and pollution to keep them healthy. Another time, it meant shooting them into the abyss of space or invading their land so that they could progress – I swear, they insisted that these were the right things.
But since it is unclear how my choice affected the game and the upbringing of the crowd, it is possible to make the crowds progress as quickly as possible. This would potentially mean to make far more victims of the crowd for the greater good.
But as Ritman asks in Plaything: “Why do you need a goal?”
Well, then I guess my answer is yes.
Something else interesting about the game?
The most interesting for Thronglets has nothing to do with the game itself, but how Netflix uses different forms of media to tell intertwining stories.
When Netflix released Black Mirror: Bandersnatch in 2018, it was the first step of the service in interactive films – which some people consider video games. The streaming service was then pressed into games in 2021and since then he turned some of his most popular series as SquidIn mobile games.
But Thronglets is not just a game -based game. The characters at Black Mirror interact with this game and then we can put ourselves in the characters’ shoes by playing the same game in the real world. The game is another step in creating a Netflix of a more swollen story of stories through games and other media, not just movies and television series.
When I started playing crowds, after watching them playing an episode of Black Mirror, I felt strange. The interaction with this piece of media, which has severe consequences in the show, lifted me to think that I was playing with fire. I know the game was just a game, but I had the feeling that the game was somehow dangerous. I know how irrational it sounds.
I also couldn’t help but feel that while I was playing this game, I was isolated from others, as Walker was doing in the show. Walker begins to ignore the world around him to take care of the crowd and I would spend time playing and ignoring the world around me too. Of course, I was not arrested for the little yellow boys – but I also did not take drugs to communicate with them.
The game didn’t make me more sympathetic to Walker. He was scared of the world and said at the beginning of the episode that the games were a type of escapism. Maybe the game and the episode work in tandem to disprove it. They may try to say that even if we find comfort in games like Thronglets, because the outside world is scary, we can still meet something just as scary in games as a bone -made bridge.
I see Netflix making more connections to the game like the one in the future to deepen the level of storytelling the stories that the service offers. And I look forward to anything next tie-can one of the arcade games from Stranger Things?
Here’s how to access this game and more
Access to Netflix games on iOS and Android devices is a little different. But you should subscribe to Netflix ($ 8 a month) For everyone.
Here’s how to access iOS games if you are a subscriber.
1 Download the Netflix app on your iPhone or iPad.
2. Open the Netflix app.
3 Tap your account and log in to your account.
4. Tap Beginning at the bottom of the screen.
5. Scroll your homepage until you see a mobile gaming carousel.
6. Tap on a game to learn more about her.
7. Tap Get a game To download a game you are interested in.
Here’s how to access Netflix games on Android if you are a subscriber.
1 Download the Netflix app on your Android device.
2. Open the Netflix app.
3 Tap your account and log in to your account.
4. Tap Games at the bottom of the screen.
5. Tap on a game to learn more about her.
6. Tap Get a game To download a game you are interested in.
You can also search for games in the Netflix app by tapping the magnifying glass in the upper right corner of the application and entering the name of the game.
Once you touch Get a gameA pop -up window will open or from the App Store or Google Play Store, asking if you want to download the game. Once you have confirmed this action, the game will download on your device, such as other applications.
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