Closing the gap between arts, games and profits.
- Independents games developers are desperately trying to find ways to live from their crafts.
- The music industry his desperately trying to find new ways to monetize their content.
- Powerful device like the IPhone, the Blackberry Storm, the Android G1, the Palm Pre will be in the hands of millions of costumers soon.
Sells interactive apps for touch-screen phones based on artists songs at twice/triple the price of the equivalents MP3.
Let call those interactive app, MGC aka Music Game Clip. But don’t be fool by the name it doesn’t necessarily have to be a game or have a goal; it only have to be interactive and be related to the artist song. It could be anything… And I trust indie game designer genius to come up with incredible idea that could change both the music and game industries for ever.
The collaboration between indie developers and musicians could create gems! Like the collaboration between musicians and film maker did years ago and still do with music videos.
Why I think it makes sense:
- The economics is solid! The MGC can be cheaply produced by small team or even individual in short period of time. The marketing channel of the musicians could be use to sell them to fans trough Online Store like Itunes.
- The music industry would be trill to makes money with a product they entirely own. (contrary to music games like Guitar Hero)
- The indie games developers can spend time developing crazy concepts and ideas around songs, make them come true and distribute them to millions of fans. And make money from that.
- It’s a win win situation for everyone involve.
Why I think fans would buy them:
- Imagine … you commute in the metro or the bus you listen to your favorite band song and you experience it, totally! Like they envisioned. A perfect moment out of reality.
- Cool factor
- Cheap
So what do you think? Think it will append? When? Can it append without the support of Apples or The big major? Could we see a hit from an obscure music artist set the bar and create the genre?
This has to be something with you on this.
[...] we need is definitely not more of the same. We need artistic and original Music Interactive Clip where the spirit and substance of the artist is translated to the listeners. Apps that generate [...]
Tu dis “Could we see a hit from an obscure music artist set the bar and create the genre?” mais en lisant l’article le groupe culte punk / new wave DEVO me venait en tête. Ils ont été des pionniers des vidéoclips (faisant des court-métrages avec leurs chansons au milieu des années 70, donc une dizaine d’années avant MTV) et ils ont toujours été intéressés par l’amalgamation de différents médias et se sont toujours vu comme un groupe d’artistes conceptuels, plutôt que comme un groupe rock. Dailleurs, dans les années 90 (si je ne me trompe pas) ils avaient sorti un jeu vidéo (Adventures of the Smart Patrol) avec leurs chansons en trame sonore. Je ne sais pas s’il y a moyen de les contacter via leur compagnie de disque ou par le studio du chanteur Mark Mothersbaugh (MutatoMuzika : http://www.mutato.com ) mais si tu pouvais les contacter et leur parler de l’idée, peut-être que ça pourrait piquer leur intérêt. En plus le timing est super bon, ils sont supposés sortir un album ce printemps, ça pourrait être un élément intéressant de la promo de l’album!
MV (Misteur Valaire) semble le parfait candidat pour voir sa musique utilisée dans les jeux. Allez y jeter un petit coup d’oreille : http://www.mv.mu
Chacune de leur chanson instrumentale comporte des tonnes de mini-clips ou de mini-loops qui peuvent donner le ton à une scène, à un tableau, à une ambiance globale dans un jeu.