Treezy Play 1.6: Now the Cast Really Talks Back
Treezy Play 1.6 is live on iOS: answer a FaceTime call out loud and the story follows your lead, plus stylable captions and cinematic opening titles.
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Version 1.6 is live on the App Store, and it changes the part of Treezy that people react to most: the phone call.
Characters have been FaceTiming you mid-story since launch. Until now, you answered them the way you answer an app, by tapping. In 1.6, you answer them the way you'd answer a person. You talk.
The call is a real conversation
Pick up Dr. Tiffany Belle's call and just say what you think. She's listening, and the story follows your lead. Your actual words decide which way the scene breaks; there's no menu waiting underneath, no "press 1 to agree." Say yes in whatever words you'd really use and she takes it as a yes. Tell her no and the film goes where a no goes.
If she doesn't catch what you meant, she does what anyone would: asks again, in character, and keeps listening. The story never stalls waiting for you to find the right phrase.
That's the whole idea behind the design language we call Cinema, an interactive film shouldn't feel like an app that happens to play video. It should feel like it's in the room with you.
🎬 Watch the trailer, one minute, and you'll see what we mean.
Captions, made yours
Closed captions are here, and they're properly yours: turn them on, then choose the size, color, and background until they sit right against the film. A caption should be readable without pulling you out of the scene, and that means different things on a phone in a bright room than it does in a dark room at night.
A cinematic open
Every show now starts with a proper opening-titles sequence before the first frame of story. Films earn their opening. Ours does now too.
A smoother show
The unglamorous work that makes the rest land:
- Choices route to the right scene, every time.
- Trailers end cleanly instead of bleeding into the next beat.
- Your self-view camera sits the right way up during calls.
- Fixed crashes around playback and returning to the app.
Get the update
Treezy Play 1.6 is free to download on the App Store for iPhone and on Google Play for Android, a membership unlocks the films.
New chapters are on the way. Thanks for playing.
See you at the movies. 🎬