Checked out Unhinged

I finally played through Unhinged, Night School's final game, which runs in the Netflix television app on a variety of platforms. Shortly after its release, Netflix shut down the studio. I know a bunch of people there and I'm very frustrated that they're now out of work. Unhinged is a super short experience. I used the Netflix controller app to play it at a party on a friend's television. We played "pass the controller" style, so I suppose I didn't properly play the whole thing... but it's a playstyle I can recommend. I think anyone who works in games narrative should check this out. The thing you'll probably pay the most attention to is the control scheme - your phone is the controller, but the thing it represents in-game is your character's phone. Your phone is a second-screen narrative delivery system and it achieves this by being a phone and receiving in-game calls and texts. The main control scheme involves turning on your in-game phone's flashlight - using a button on your real…