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Role-playing the ‘Platinum’ hip-hop life
Loading ...An in-development, massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on the hip hop music lifestyle, Platinum Life, just landed its first big-name collaborator: T.I.
“Most hip hop games are about thug life,” says Anthony Castoro, co-founder and chief creative officer for developer Heatwave Interactive. “We wanted to do something that is positive about hip hop and is broader.”
In the Platinum Life world, players will attempt to work their way up from a budding artist selling mix tapes on the street. “You choose an icon like T.I. and his manager is going to say, ‘Look, we heard about you and that you are a really good performer. If you get enough cred, we will let you open up for T.I., if you are in New York maybe at Madison Square Garden.’” Castoro continues, “so you have all these missions to do to get that credibility. You can do rap battles. You can go record albums. You can do all these different activities,” he says. “And then you go and do the big performance. So a lot of this game is about doing performances in venues kind of like ‘instances’ in an MMO.”
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