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“Strange,” mused the Director, as they turned away, “strange to think that even in Our Ford’s day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption.”
The Black Chapter!
The concept of wiki-project is an intriguing one. Bungie are the experts in the production of a game - making the engine, the logic, the environment, all that. But it would be very interesting to see what might happen if that production ability were harnessed by a crowd-brain. After all, I'd have thought that any of us is just as qualified as they are to say what we enjoy in a game.
I was once involved in a project where we were making a film along these lines. Probably about 10,000 of us. It fell through, for reasons that were never really established - the project had sufficient monetary backing from investors that it could have gone to the end. I would be very interested to see if something similar could get off the ground.
The main danger would be in setting up a massive Chinese Parliament, but if it were controlled from the outset to filter out the noise, I think that this sort of a project could potentially be hugely successful.