Xbox 360 Embrace “Open Source” Gaming Model?

Speaking at The Entertainment Gathering conference here, “Sims” creator Will Wright and Microsoft Xbox team head J. Allard both cast a spotlight on the growing role that game players will have in creating content for the biggest games.

“(Gaming) is the only medium where we yield control of the protagonist. Let’s yield control of the director–and the producer,” said Allard, a vice president at Microsoft. “We’re going to take on the Wikipedia model. We’re going to take on…the open-source model, if you will, for gaming.”

“If only 1 percent of our audience that plays Halo helped construct the world around Halo, it would be more human beings than work at Microsoft corporation. That’s how much human energy we could harness in this medium.”
Speaking at The Entertainment Gathering conference here, “Sims” creator Will Wright and Microsoft Xbox team head J. Allard both cast a spotlight on the growing role that game players will have in creating content for the biggest games.

“(Gaming) is the only medium where we yield control of the protagonist. Let’s yield control of the director–and the producer,” said Allard, a vice president at Microsoft. “We’re going to take on the Wikipedia model. We’re going to take on…the open-source model, if you will, for gaming.”

“If only 1 percent of our audience that plays Halo helped construct the world around Halo, it would be more human beings than work at Microsoft corporation. That’s how much human energy we could harness in this medium.”