339:. In 2017, Parikh focused his creative pursuits in the field of live action, choose your own adventure style series, combining his love of storytelling, video games, and programming. He created and directed an interactive sitcom that follows Milana Vayntrub as Jill, who desperately struggles to remember a forgotten friend’s name at a party (in episode one) and then has to deal with the embarrassment of getting dumped in public (in episode two). As each episode plays, the viewer has to help Jill out, selecting how she should answer particularly tough questions — and also, occasionally, playing other mini games.
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and has to fight his way out with a wooden sword and no discernible skills. He wrote the 4-minute short as a web pilot for VH1's
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