February 16, 2018   3 notes

Anonymous asked: Considering how much WWTB is similar to reality television, I think that the next seasons of WWTB should be parodies on existing genres of reality television shows.

Oof! That would require me to watch way more reality TV than I’m comfortable with. Also, a lot of the skill-based challenges of real reality shows are difficult to translate into virtual space… for example, it’s impossible to have any sort of physical contest between the players.

I like the idea of Bimbo Big Brother, Bimbo Survivor, Bimbo Chef, Bimb my Car (had to), Bimbolympics, even Bimbo Hunger Games. They all sound fun, but they’d probably work better as fictional shows (with real voting) instead of the interactive, “real players” thing that WWBtB is.

Many of these have also been done, in one way or another. I didn’t invent the TF Show concept. TheSoylentOrange’s The Pageant from 10 years ago (!) is very similar to WWBtB and is itself based on role-playing sessions held by tgtgar on the Process Forums. MrGrey’s You Bet Your Brain was written in 2002! More recently, there’s the Bimbo or Billionaire series by TheHandsThatLead and VipCaption’s Jinkxed (which is excellent)! There’s also interactive TF show games like Transformania Time, Bimbo House or Who Wanna Be a Bimbo? There are too many variations to include them all (sorry!) and that’s even without getting into “vote to transform this character” projects like SitriAbyss’ Pick your Poison.

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