YouTube's first interactive special stars Markiplier and has 31 possible endings


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  • Thursday, 24 Oct 2019

In A Heist With Markiplier, viewers take the perspective of Markiplier (real name: Mark Fischbach) and make life-or-death decisions about what to do next at key points in the story. — Reuters

LOS ANGELES: YouTube is diving into interactive entertainment with a new special featuring popular gaming creator Markiplier as a black-clad super-criminal who tries to steal a priceless artifact from the world's most secure museum.

Along the lines of Netflix's Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, viewers will control the outcome of the interactive movie, A Heist With Markiplier. The first-person branching narrative storyline has 31 possible endings in all, with the entire production encompassing 61 videos. It's slated to premiere Oct 30 and will be free to all users.

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