You can sort-of play Mario Kart on YouTube as an "interactive video" that could lead to more complex experiments - Eurogamer.net
Content creators are using YouTube's 360-degree video features and custom subtitles to create interactive, game-like experiences. While not full-fledged games, these experiments demonstrate creative ways to push platform limitations using HTML, JavaScript, and Python.
Why it matters
It highlights how users are repurposing existing platform infrastructure to build novel interactive media, potentially influencing future platform development.
Mind you, it's not actually Mario Kart with mechanics, items, and all that. Instead, you're just going from left to right with a racer of your choice - you can switch between different ones by changing the video's subtitles - for less than one minute on the famous Rainbow Road, but as purely a concept for more complex experiments that may or may not happen, it's impressive.
The article is a technical feature piece focusing on creative platform usage without political or social agenda.
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