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I'd love to hear more of your thoughts about times when the "dice-roll" challenges have thrown various reality show narratives on their heads. And generally, I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on how showrunners construct a narrative around the results of each show's season-worth of episodes. I think it would make a fascinating contrast with the inherent release of authorial control that game writers have when giving players agency over stories in their games!

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Thinking about elimations and reality shows. A battle royale game that emphasised that kind reality-tv elimation drama would be nice angle. Among Us is probably the closest to something like that.

A game that depended on the formation of friendships/ alliances would be a nice inversion of the stubbornly individualistic battle royale formula.

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when streamers play among us and people watch/participate on Twitch, is that a reality show? what about the "among us in real life" content genre on youtube/tiktok yes this is real (yes it is a reality show)!

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Very true!

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