Anthony Zuiker, the creator of the CSI TV series, has crafted a new kind of story dubbed a “gamified narrative,” which combines the interactivity of games and the video of movies and TV shows.
Anthony Zuiker, the creator of CSI by David Zentz
The seasoned entertainer hopes to establish the combo game and animated video series — a marriage of Hollywood, tech, and games that will appear today first on the Nabi tablet — as a new category of entertainment for kids, who are immersed in all kinds of digital entertainment.
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