Screenrant
We speak to Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous showrunner Scott Kreamer about crafting the Netflix show's interactive follow-up, Hidden Adventure.
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous told a completely new story in the Jurassic World franchise, with the show concluding its fifth and final season in July 2022. Despite this, Camp Cretaceous is not quite finished, as Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure has just arrived on Netflix. Unlike the show itself, Hidden Adventure is an interactive experience not unlike a video game.
In Hidden Adventure, the Nublar Six are back for another adventure on the island full of dinosaurs. However, this time, the viewer is a direct participant taking the characters through their navigation of the island. For the audience of Camp Cretaceous, Hidden Adventure places them right in the shoes of the young protagonists of the show.
We speak to Camp Cretaceous showrunner Scott Kreamer about the making of Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous: Hidden Adventure, what fans of the show can expect from the interactive epilogue to it, and some of the challenges in producing Hidden Adventure while wrapping up the final season of Camp Cretaceous.
Scott Kreamer: I’ll tell you, the genesis of the idea was Netflix says ‘Hey, we want you to do an interactive.’ And we said, ‘Well, we’re trying to land this series’, but they really wanted to do the interactive. So, that was the genesis of the idea, and we kind of put it in at the end of our production schedule, and the tricky thing really is we were writing this while writing the series finale. So, it was not an easy time, but I’m really happy with how both turned out.
Scott Kreamer: Yeah, the writing overlapped, and then we have our three board teams and our three episodic directors, and as they were rolling off episodes of the series, they were rolling right onto the interactive experience. It took all our writers and all our board teams and all our directors and everyone to pull this thing off. Just to raise the level of difficulty on that, certain assets weren’t going to be ready till, say the third team rolled on, so now we can’t really just divide it up by axe. It was a bit of a tight wire act, even more so than the rest of the show has been, but thankfully, things turned out pretty well, I think.
