This could be an interesting or frustrating experiment. It all depends on you.
In the summer of 2010, the SciFi Channel is going to release an online roleplaying game that will directly relate to a current television series. Whoever plays the game, and the course that characters and events take in that game, are supposedly going to affect what happens in the television show as well. Sort of a choose-your-own-adventure plot, but guided by the questings and killings and whatever else the game involves of thousands of players and fans.
No one really knows what the story is going to be about, other than being a few decades down the road, plus involving some sort of alien invasion.
I’m wondering how much of a delay between the game and the show there’ll be. How much time will actors and the show writers have to adapt to whatever changes the fans make in the game? And will there be some idiots who go in and try to muck around in the game world, just to screw up the show? Make people fail on a big quest or kill off some important characters? Will that even be possible, or will the game be relegated to affecting tiny factors, like a character’s hair cut, or the kind of laser gun they use?
It’ll be interesting to see as it develops. Who knows? I may even give the game a try.
I see that smile.