Upcoming PSN game uses crowd-sourcing for ideas

The Bearded Ladies, developers of Landit Bandit, want to turn your ideas into a video game. In collaboration with SCEE, the studio has launched Gamocracy, a project that seeks to take the best user-submitted ideas for use in a new action-platforming game for PS3 and PSP.

Over the course of eight weeks, there will be various challenges posed to the official PlayStation community. Currently, the developers are seeking concepts for the game's story and protagonist. Favorites selected by The Bearded Ladies will move on to a fan voting process. The best concept will end up in the final product.

Gamocracy should be a fun experiment for enthusiasts that want an opportunity to see their ideas come to fruition. However, the developers do caution that serious game authors should probably opt out of this promotion. "Once you submit your ideas to our forum, they are then free to be used by us or The Bearded Ladies in ANY manner, including in any other games and without any obligation to you. So, if your idea is secret and you would like to keep it that way, we advise you NOT to post it."

Reader Comments (22)

Sounds like you come up with the ideal and we get paid for it contest.
Sounds like the Bearded Ladies eating good on this one

OH WAT A NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, in every video game I play, I always spend a lot of time trying to find the most hilarious and bizarre deaths possible, so how about a game that does that? I'll climb the highest building and do a swan dive. And giggle.

@SisypheanLife

Ever played PAIN?

@SisypheanLife

isnt that what you can do in almost any sandbox game? mainly GTA games.

@Laivindil

Yeah, I have Pain, but the fact that each scene has to be bought additionally is just insulting.

Insulting like profiting off the community's best ideas while they they nothing in return, insulting?

This could be a great game, or a god awful game.

someone needs to remake BLAST CHAMBER

wait, so they want peoples' ideas, but they also don't want to pay the people for those winning ideas? sounds like someone at bearded ladies is trying to make a quick buck and cover up that they're no good at game design

Maybe a cross between Mirror's Edge and Pain. Basically, a 3rd-person game starring the world's worst parkour athlete.

@SisypheanLife
Yeah it's called AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH- A reckless Disreguard of Gravity

@The Aquacharger

I've tried that, but its basically just falling.

Maybe a game based on the Egyptian mythology in which the main character is the ultimate badass who has to fight hordes and hordes of the most ancient and terrible monsters, all this to find out that Ra is in reality his father. I would call it, The Deity of the Discord

@Angel Mass God of War?

this is basically them saying "listen guys, we know landit bandit blew. we want ideas from you for free so we dont have to come up with any ourselves cuz most of our ideas suck. kthanxbye"

@8bitartist

exactly.

@8bitartist

Yet you get to make it the way you like it, thus satisfying you guys. Sure, it makes them money, but it makes you happy.

@Chromatic Iggytrinh

just because we give them the idea doesnt mean they will execute it well though.

In some ways I like the idea of some kind of community-based development, but it'd be infinitely cooler if they, say, gave everyone who contributed an idea that made it into the game a small royalty share of profits or something. I guess it gets a little complex going down that road.

@edit Yes you are quite correct. Our original idea was to have some kind of revenue share but the legal requirements behind that were just way to complicated for this project. We are looking into other options but as of right now the only thing we can offer is e-fame and a chance to get your name in the credits of a ps3/psp title.

@Angel Mass Post it :)

@Sisyphean Life : Post it :)

@Everyone Else : "I'm not going to dignify that with an answer"

Flame me silly, but how are they and the "official playstation community" going to be able to communicate together? PS Home? Private messages? Live cam chat?

Please tell me I won't have to use my P ( o ) S browser to go to a website just to see my ps3 freeze..

@primal convoy :

Login at the forums and collaborate away at : http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/GAMOCRACY/bd-p/bEN_Gamocracy

(yes, the ps3 browser is even worse then ie.. .but someone is actually using it for the forums already)

Upcoming PSN game uses crowd-sourcing for ideas

Reader Comments (22)

Posted: Feb 21st 2011 7:52PM ohwatanizzight said

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