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In the Interest of Ratings received negative reviews in the press, including in Internet Captain (קפטן האינטרנט), the technology/multimedia branch of the leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz however it received positive reviews in youth-oriented newspapers. The game contained intertextuality, inside jokes, irony, and cynicism. ĭespite having no experience in the video gaming industry, the team went to work and after nine months of development, released In the Interest of Ratings (בתככי הרייטינג), a title which focused on the incompetent detective Elimelech Egoz (voiced by Moshe Ferster), who goes on holiday at the fictional Nofei Hadera Hotel only to be greeted by a bizarre murder case. He gave them NIS 10,000 in return for 50% of the future profits from the sales. In 1997, one of their projects reached the desk of the CEO of video game distributor Hed Artzi Multimedia (הד ארצי מולטימדיה), the multimedia arm of Israeli record label Hed Arzi Music, who liked the illustration style of the duo and suggested they create a Hebrew-language computer game. After he left the Israeli army and while his brother Roy was still a member, they set up a small graphics business in Pardes Hanna (פרדס חנה), where they did routine projects for commission.
In the late 1980 while Ronan Gluzman was at the age of 13, he began his computer gaming career by creating games and animations on Macromedia Mac Director software. History Conception and In the Interest of Ratings (1997–98) Piposh 3D revolves around a political revolution that ensues because the entire country decides to become vegetarian, replacing meat with tofu. Halom SheHitgashem is focused on eight strange acquaintances who are invited to the castle of an eccentric man. In Piposh 2, Piposh finds himself trapped on an island populated by dwarves, who help him assemble an aviation device to escape. He can interrogate characters, break into their rooms, and accuse them of murder. In the first game, he boards the wrong boat and has numerous antics, including being caught up in a murder. The plot of Piposh follows the quirky adventures of its main character, flawed actor Hezi Piposh and "morbidly tactless guy in his attempts to reach Hollywood and make it big". The main character is intended to be a caricature of the arrogant Israeli, with a worldview that "the whole world is an idiot – and that talk can not be done quietly, only with shouting".
The series consists of point and click adventures, requiring players to interact with an inventory and with characters in order to complete puzzles and advance the story.
Piposh ( Hebrew: פיפוש) is an Israeli media franchise that started as a series of comedic point-and-click adventure video games developed by Guillotine and published by Hed Arzi Multimedia for Windows.