If you hit up CNN, you can catch an interview with Will Wright on his latest project, Bar Karma. In the interview, he goes on discussing how games are ‘not the right medium’ to tell stories with, rather instead its about the story possibilities:
For “Bar Karma,” Wright and TV industry veteran Albie Hecht took the concept of a show driven by fan input and started recruiting.
People submitted ideas and voted on the program’s website. The outcome was a drama about a mystical barroom where patrons must come to terms with morals and involves spiritual concepts like fate.
The show runners have built a community of 20- and 30-somethings — an advertiser’s dream demographic — composed evenly of men and women who check into the site or use an iPhone application, Wright said.
The show premiered on the Current TV network last Friday, and fans can surf to its website to join in on the production of future episodes. The process of idea-to-shooting for each episode takes several weeks, Wright said.
“This is storytelling,” he said. “Television is a very different thing from video games. It’s kind of hard for me to compare.”
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