Horrible Histories: Gory Games
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| Genre | Game show |
| Written by | Giles Pilbrow Sarah Morgan (Series 4) Dan Gaster (Series 4) Laurence Rickard (Series 1 - 3) |
| Directed by | Dominic Brigstocke |
| Presented by |
Dave Lamb With John Eccleston Scott Brooker |
| Starring |
See Cast
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| Theme music composer | Richie Webb |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 56 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Caroline Norris Giles Pilbrow Richard Bradley |
| Producer(s) | Candida Julian-Jones |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Citrus Television/Lion Television |
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| Original network | CBBC |
| Original release | 30 May 2011 – Present |
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| Website | |
Horrible Histories: Gory Games is a children's game show, co-produced by Citrus Television and Lion Television for CBBC, that debuted in 2011. It is a spin-off of hit children's sketch comedy Horrible Histories and is a product of the same creative team.
The show featured music by Matt Katz and Richie Webb, produced at Noisegate. The gameshow's participants are aged between 8 and 12.
The gameshow was adapted into an iOS/Android app, allowing players to play along with the contestants. It was available at Google Play or the Apple App Store. The premiere app by the creative tea, SyncScreen was in charge of app design and user experience, and they used their proprietary SyncScreen Framework API technology. The app also used Civolution’s SyncNow Automatic Content Recognition, which increased the synchronicity of the experience. It was the " first mainstream “second screen” apps for kids", and was designed to be used by children while they were watching the show.
Gory Games is co-hosted by comedian Dave Lamb and Rattus Rattus, the rat puppet who also "hosts" the parent series. The show revolves around "horrible facts". Gameplay involves three child contestants (called "Horrible Historians") trying to obtain "Year Spheres" by completing either an historically-themed physical challenge or a quiz. Each Year Sphere contains a year which is either A.D. or B.C.. If it is A.D., the year is added to the player's score at the end of the show; if B.C., it is subtracted from it. The player with the highest overall score after three rounds is the winner.
The games are divided into six categories: "Brainy", "Messy", "Scary", "Silly", "Death" (hosted by Death himself) and "Gory". Quiz questions manifest as either multiple-choice or true-or-false questions and may be asked either by Lamb, Rattus, a live-action or animated character from that period, or—in Series 3—Death. "Prop questions" are also asked.
Similarly to its parent series, the games are grouped under randomly selected historical eras or civilisations based on Terry Deary's original books. To date the eras used in Gory Games are:
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