The sun always shines on TV

Out of the Blue Games reveals how it changed channels to make American Arcadia, a 2.5D side-scroller, first-person puzzler hybrid that plays on the paranoia of questioning your own reality

More than just a useful parental tool to get kids in bed at a reasonable hour, the old adage “watch too much TV and you’ll get square eyes” also has a degree of truth to it. Particularly in the case of reality shows, where viewers who get drawn in are constantly being blindsided by the producers, editors, and script doctors who chop it up in the edit, doing their best to fool the audience into thinking that a world they know deep down to be false is somehow genuine. Or worse, perfect. Someone who isn’t fooled, however, is Trevor Hills, one of the ordinary-seeming stars at the centre of Earth’s most-watched TV show: American Arcadia. At first this seventies-inspired metropolis looks like the perfect utopia in which to make a life,…

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