What's The Sims creator Will Wright doing these days? Making "community developed television" about a mystical watering hole at the edge of the universe.
Wright's new show is called Bar Karma and the only reason you can't watch it yet is because you -- the community -- haven't created it yet.
Bar Karma runs on a platform called Current TV out of its Creation Studios channel. The idea is that viewers influence and even change Bar Karma episodes by pitching their own storyline ideas and storyboards. The community then votes on the one they like best and the producers go out and shoot it. There's a bit of a gray area between producer and community in that the producers probably have to adapt and edit the community ideas -- but it's still supposed to be a 30-minute television episode invented entirely by a community.
If the Spike TV Awards bestowed a "So Meta" award, Wright probably deserves it. Now if only he could adapt the idea to video games...
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Source: Daily News from GamePro.com
Wednesday, November 17, 2010