Harmonix wants to embrace Rock Band user content

Posted Mar 11th 2008 3:15PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News

Chatting it up with GamesIndustry.biz, Harmonix's Greg LoPiccolo talked Rock Band and its future mentioning that the Rock Band platform could eventually grow to allow user content. When questioned about possibly hitting a creativity wall, LoPiccolo told GamesIndustry.biz that Harmonix "would like to make it possible for people to introduce their own music into sort of the Rock Band ecosystem" and that they would "love to have it be a vehicle for people to be able to express themselves in terms of creating their own music and bringing it to a wider audience." LoPiccolo did make it clear that such an avenue for growth is a "pretty complicated topic" due to implementation, IP problems and ratings, but is confident that Rock Band will grow as a platform ... whatever that entails.

Tags: ea, harmonix, mtv-games, rock-band

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

3-11-2008 @ 5:03PM

Mrblonde said...

If they can make this work, it will be a solid buy for me. It will be really awesome to see how it works cause a lot goes into integrating a song into rock band

3-11-2008 @ 5:08PM

NvM said...

They're trying to say Rock Band is going to become it's own game system one day. Duh.

3-11-2008 @ 6:05PM

stewie said...

this is cool i hope they do do this cause i got some stuff that im working on and i think it would be fun to see what people think i mean theres youtube i know but this would be fun and sound would be better

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