Gerry Garcia lives on as does his Grateful Dead legions in a new upcoming video game called “The Epic Tour”.
This game is scheduled to be released in 2012 and comes from Curious Sense the company that brought us the REO Speedwagon game “Find Your Own Way Home”. This game is to be a multiplayer game that lets the players wander around a Grateful Dead environment scoring points doing deeds, finding stuff, interacting with one another and all sorts of Grateful Dead things. Music, images, and more has this game scheduled to be like Farmville and other “freemium” based games that are initially free but also have goodies and extras you can purchase.
What’s important here is that should this game be a hit it proves something that the gaming industry predicted but is not going to be ready for manpower-wise. The Grateful Dead’s fans are primarily people in their 50′s up to their 70′s. Getting them to play online games would be a major coup as they’re the Baby Boomers who have a good amount of money and more. So far Baby Boomers have flocked to video games online not so with consoles but because online games like Farmville are simple, easy to play and interactive on a social level. Families can play together and keep track of one another and parents can teach kids about values. To have these band themed games is going to be a massive hit because it brings in generations of fans and the bands themselves can get more data on their fans and vice versa. Mind you there are all kinds of bands out there and if this trend keeps up everyone from Louie Armstrong to Lady GaGa are going to have themed online video games. Who will monitor and troubleshoot these games? It’s going to take a lot of manpower!
