I just finished watching the first season of The Duffer Brothers' terrific '80s-inspired Netflix series Stranger Things, and it's one of the few shows that truly lived up to the tremendous hype surrounding it. If you haven't watched it yet, check it out — if you like this site, I'm almost certain you'll dig the show.

While we wait for Netflix to officially renew the series for a second season, the showrunners — who have several seasons planned — spoke with IGN about how they're going to bridge the gap between seasons one and two:

Matt: Yeah, you have to do the Harry Potter thing. You have to jump a year. Because like Gaten [Matarazzo, who plays Dustin], his voice has already dropped quite a bit, to the point where we couldn’t even do ADR with him. We had to pitch it way up. It’s dropped. He’s grown. As much as I would love to have it be Christmas right after that, it’s just not feasible, so we’re going to skip a year. They’ll be a year older and all their changes they’re going through, we’ll take that into account and kind of work that into the show.

Ross: It’s also just exciting having these initial conversations about it because the jump allows us to say “what happened in that year?” It actually opens up a lot more storytelling possibilities. These characters have changed and the audience has to sort of fill in those gaps of what went on in that year. To us, it’s exciting. So the fact that we have to make this jump, because of the kids, we’re trying to use that to our advantage.

IGN: You could have a comic book of the year in between.

Ross Duffer: That’s a great idea! But what I really want is a video game.

Matt: Like an 8-bit… These fans, a lot of them have done this 8-bit video game art that’s blowing my mind.

An 8-bit game sounds like a really fun way to connect the dots. I just did a quick search for some Stranger Things 8-bit stuff, and found an 8-bit version of the theme song: