When was the last time you played a game on Facebook? Well, Meta is hoping to tempt you back to its platform with an interesting prospect: a daily, choice-based narrative experience taking place over the course of the next four months, titled The Walking Dead: Last Mile.
A massively interactive live event (MILE), the project is a collaboration between publisher Genvid, which specialises in these part-game, part-interactive stream, part-live show creations, with design and narrative input from The Walking Dead’s team at Skybound and funding from Facebook.
The big sell is that Last Mile is a new chapter of The Walking Dead’s lore, which will unfold across the next couple of months based upon decisions made by players, with the resulting narrative becoming franchise “canon” in line with the original comic books. And for fans of Telltale’s The Walking Dead games, there’s a clear influence in art style and design language, if not gameplay.
How does it all work? Well, on Facebook – either the desktop site or via the Facebook smartphone app – you’ll be able to log on and create a character which becomes part of Last Mile’s story. Each day you’ll be able to take part in individual mini-games and collaborative streams (think a bit like Twitch Plays Pokémon, Genvid has said) where you generate Influence Points to spend on impacting the game’s ongoing narrative.