Spellbound is a new animated film with a playable Roblox experience on Netflix.
Spellbound is a new animated film with a playable Roblox experience on Netflix.
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Barrier Four revolutionizes Roblox transmedia with playable Spellbound and Cobra Kai streaming shows on Netflix

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

Barrier Four has come up with a new kind of Roblox game: An animated show on Netflix that has a playable scene where the show turns into a video game. It’s called “playable media.”

It’s like a TV show or movie that’s playable, and Barrier Four is starting with games based on the Cobra Kai TV show and the Spellbound movie. It’s a form of transmedia that hasn’t really been done before. The Cobra Kai game, for instance, takes place midway through an animated TV episode, when the whole dojo gets into a fight.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.