Villain Edit

Twenty women. One fake heir. Eight Thursdays at nine. You’re the producer of a 2003 dating show, and you decide what airs, what gets cut and who gets the villain edit. America knows the heir is a swim coach from Sacramento. The women in the Solvang mansion don’t. Somebody decides what they learn. That’s you. Villain Edit is a narrative game about reality television. You play Tess Darrow, a producer who starts as an associate on that 2003 show and ends up running the room twenty-two years later. Every choice is a scene you read and play, not a minigame. THE CAST Every season has five leads, and you build the season around one of them. In The Heir that means Brandi, who knows exactly what this is. Simone, a NICU nurse who may be too real for television. Gina, who brought a manager. Grant, the heir, who coaches high school swimming. Lacey, whose first plane ride was last Tuesday. THE…