The book delves deep into the brutal Hunger Games Haymitch was forced to endure—one of the deadliest in history—revealing how he was broken by the violence and trauma of it all.

In video game parlance, Jot jumps from 2-D to 3-D, but in storytelling terms, it’s more universal. “Jot is the master of his storybook,” Jamie Turner, the Plucky Squire co-director, said in ...