B3D is the name of an internet-movie rendering
program named after its development company,
Brilliant
Digital. B3D ran various advertisements and short movies based
on its
skinned wireframe polygonal models. The program is seen as
spyware because of its
tendency to send information about its
users back to its
programmers to sell.
Currently, the website has four 'channels',
each based on a certain show. Choose Your Own Nightmare, Kiss,
Gravity Angel, and Ace Venture. Previous Channels have included
Xena: Warrior Princess. Generally, Channels have episodes, with
multiple parts. Each episode is a stand-alone story. The viewer
makes choices that influence what happens next, though some are
'false choices', also known as 'communist choices.' For instance,
in Xena: Warrior Princess, no matter what happens, the same basic
events take place. Xena wins no matter what. This is especially
obvious during one webisode, where she faces a riddle by the
Cerebrus, and the viewer must pick a head. No matter what head is
picked, Xena has the right answer. (It is a trick
question.)
Other 'channels', such as Choose Your Own Nightmare,
based on the books of the same name, have a higher level of
interactivity. In this, there are multiple endings, generally
consisting of many endings where the player dies, a few endings
where the player escapes, and one "True" ending where he recieves
the full story, and escapes unscathed. Night of the Werewolf and
Bite of the Vampire slightly break this.
External
links
B3D Homepage