{"id":19216,"date":"2022-07-26T18:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1686473"},"modified":"2022-07-26T18:40:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T16:40:09","slug":"before-your-eyes-blinks-onto-netflix-we-were-desperate-to-do-a-mobile-version","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/before-your-eyes-blinks-onto-netflix-we-were-desperate-to-do-a-mobile-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Your Eyes blinks onto Netflix: \u201cWe were desperate to do a mobile version\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Rob Leane\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 26 July 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Before Your Eyes, a brilliant game that uses eye-detection to create the sensation of life flashing before your eyes as you blink, is coming to mobile today. In fact, it\u2019s coming to Netflix<\/a> at no extra cost for the streaming service\u2019s subscribers.<\/p>\n

When the PC version launched last year, our Before Your Eyes review<\/a> bestowed a perfect five-star score on the game. We wrote, \u201cThe graphics are fairly simple, but the storytelling is masterful, and that feeling like life is slipping through your fingers is something that makes this experience hugely memorable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before Your Eyes began life as a college project, before acquiring funding from various places (including Kickstarter, RYOT and Robert Kirkman\u2019s Skybound Games) and ultimately releasing on PC after seven years of development. Set in a quirky afterlife, the game sees you darting through the main character\u2019s life \u2014 at certain moments, if you blink, you\u2019ll be thrust forward in time to a later point in their story.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the Before Your Eyes mobile release on Netflix, RadioTimes.com<\/a> spoke to two of the game\u2019s core developers via Zoom. Read on to see what Graham Parkes and Oliver Lewin, from the indie developer GoodbyeWorld Games, told us about the game\u2019s impending arrival on Netflix as a mobile experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we always wanted this game to come to mobile,\u201d Parkes told us. \u201cTwo reasons being: one, that face detection is very sophisticated, you have high quality cameras on basically all smartphones now. So it felt like just a natural fit there.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then also, we were always trying to design a game that wasn\u2019t just for gamers or wasn\u2019t just for hardcore gamers, we always wanted this game to be something that anyone could enjoy. It feels like mobile is a marketplace where people who aren\u2019t your traditional console gamer can have these sorts of experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n\nGetting your game onto mobile devices isn\u2019t always easy, though. As Parkes puts it, \u201cThe mobile space right now, it\u2019s hard to make a business case to just go up on the App Store with a narrative-focused game at this point. It\u2019s just so easy to get buried. So we always sort of wanted to do it \u2013\u00a0we were quite desperate to do a mobile version \u2013\u00a0but we just sort of knew we needed to find the right partner.<\/p>\n\u201cAt that point, we were already off and away in developing our next title. And so they brought on Be Calm to work with us, to help make the port of it, and it\u2019s been a really, really smooth and exciting process, especially after so many years of everything being so difficult and having to do everything ourselves, to just sort of have this really amazing mobile version \u2013\u00a0which to us feels like, if not equally as good, maybe the best way to play the game \u2013\u00a0just come to life in front of our eyes, it\u2019s been a really cool process.\u201d<\/p> But how does being on mobile alter the game? Lewin says, \u201cI think it changes it in kind of subtle ways. You know, for one, the kind of visual experience is a little different, depending on whether you\u2019re playing it vertically or horizontally, or going between the two. There\u2019s also kind of a more of a tactile feel, because you\u2019re controlling the camera with your fingers.<\/p>\n\u201cI think the eye-detection sometimes is more consistent and better, because there\u2019s less kind of unforeseen variables that come into play with computer webcams. But I still think that it has the kind of same kind of very concise, intense energy that that the PC version has.\u201d He goes on to add, \u201cWe tried to streamline certain things to make it feel a bit more like a mobile game, to have less text and things like that, but to answer your question directly I don\u2019t think it\u2019s very different.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\""image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--full=\"\" style=\""padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\""(max-width:\" data-srcset=\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/Before-Your-Eyes-19833ad.jpg?webp=true&quality=90&resize=300%2C200,\" https:=\"\" type=\""image\/webp"\"><source media=\""(max-width:\" data-srcset=\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/Before-Your-Eyes-19833ad.jpg?quality=90&resize=300%2C200,\" https:=\"\" type=\""image\/jpeg"\"><source media=\""(max-width:\" data-srcset=\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/Before-Your-Eyes-19833ad.jpg?webp=true&quality=90&resize=355%2C236,\" https:=\"\" type=\""image\/webp"\"><source media=\""(max-width:\" data-srcset=\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/Before-Your-Eyes-19833ad.jpg?quality=90&resize=355%2C236,\" https:=\"\" type=\""image\/jpeg"\"><source media=\""(max-width:\" data-srcset=\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/Before-Your-Eyes-19833ad.jpg?webp=true&quality=90&resize=405%2C270,\" https:=\"\" type=\""image\/webp"\"><source media=\""(max-width:\" data-srcset=\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/Before-Your-Eyes-19833ad.jpg?quality=90&resize=405%2C270,\" https:=\"\" type=\""image\/jpeg"\"><source media=\""(max-width:\" data-srcset=\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/Before-Your-Eyes-19833ad.jpg?webp=true&quality=90&resize=554%2C369"\" type=\""image\/webp"\"><source media=\""(max-width:\" data-srcset=\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/Before-Your-Eyes-19833ad.jpg?quality=90&resize=554%2C369"\" type=\""image\/jpeg"\"><source media=\""(min-width:\" data-srcset=\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/Before-Your-Eyes-19833ad.jpg?webp=true&quality=90&resize=620%2C413"\" type=\""image\/webp"\"><source media=\""(min-width:\" data-srcset=\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/Before-Your-Eyes-19833ad.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413"\" type=\""image\/jpeg"\"><source media=\""(min-width:\" data-srcset=\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/Before-Your-Eyes-19833ad.jpg?webp=true&quality=90&resize=408%2C272,\" https:=\"\" type=\""image\/webp"\"><source media=\""(min-width:\" data-srcset=\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/Before-Your-Eyes-19833ad.jpg?quality=90&resize=408%2C272,\" https:=\"\" type=\""image\/jpeg"\"><source media=\""(min-width:\" data-srcset=\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/Before-Your-Eyes-19833ad.jpg?webp=true&quality=90&resize=556%2C370"\" type=\""image\/webp"\"><source media=\""(min-width:\" data-srcset=\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/Before-Your-Eyes-19833ad.jpg?quality=90&resize=556%2C370"\" type=\""image\/jpeg"\"><img class=\""wp-image-1686540\" align=\"\" size-landscape_thumbnail=\"\" image-handler__image=\"\" image-handler__image--full=\"\" no-wrap=\"\" js-lazyload=\"\" data-src=\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/Before-Your-Eyes-19833ad.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413"\" width=\""620"\" height=\""413"\" alt=\"""\" title=\"""\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><div class=\""caption-hold"\"><figcaption class=\""wp-caption-text"\"> The unique visual style of Before Your Eyes.<\/span><\/figcaption> GoodbyeWorld Games\/Skybound<\/i><\/span><\/div>\nNetflix is still a relatively new player in the gaming space, of course, with members only gaining access to mobile games through the service within the last year. Parkes recalls, \u201cWhen we heard about it, we were just really excited, but we didn\u2019t really know what to expect. Like, what games are we going to be next to? What else is Netflix is going to be doing? And it\u2019s been really amazing to see that they\u2019ve been sort of stealthily building up this really amazing lineup [of games].\u201d<\/p>\nWith games like Kentucky Route Zero, Spiritfarer, Into the Breach and Sam Barlow\u2019s Immortality coming to Netflix with mobile versions, Before Your Eyes is certainly in good company on the streaming service. Parkes describes these as \u201cgames that we love, that to us are some of the best indie games of the last few years\u201d.<\/p>\nHe adds, \u201cWe\u2019ve always believed that narrative games, that are not about challenge, that are not about winning or losing, but are just about experiencing an interactive story\u2026 we\u2019ve always felt that those games can appeal to a broader audience that don\u2019t consider themselves gamers, and there\u2019s an audience out there that might love these experiences.<\/p>\n\u201cBut they just have no means of discovering them or checking them out. Because if [you don\u2019t think of yourself as a gamer], why would you have a Steam account? Why would you? So, I mean, we\u2019ll see what happens, but the hope with something like Netflix is, it\u2019s just included in your subscription. If you\u2019re using the mobile app anyway, you\u2019re going to just see it there.<\/p>\n\u201cAnd so the hope is that, you know, because Netflix has such a wide variety of of subscribers, that it will bring some people to our game, and to other games in our genre, that maybe haven\u2019t been in that space before.\u201d<\/p>\nBefore Your Eyes is out now on <a href=\"\/\/netflix.com\/"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""sponsored noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\">Netflix<\/a> \u2013 you should be able to find it in the mobile app. The game is also still on <a href=\"\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1082430\/Before_Your_Eyes\/"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""sponsored noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\">Steam.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nFollow <a href=\"\/\/twitter.com\/RadioTimesGames"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">Radio Times Gaming on Twitter<\/a> for all the latest insights. 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