NanaOn-Sha game designer Masaya Matsuura wants Rock Band creators Harmonix to open up the way the rhythm-action title presently works, affording gamers the chance to create their own tracks for the game.

"I really want them to open the format, of the audio files. So that people can make their own game course with their own track, and download it or upload it to a game console, and share with each other, or sell it to each other," the designer told Wired at the DICE Summit this week.

"If they can make that kind of progress, it would be great. These are the kinds of possibilities I'm imagining."

Rock Band is of course all about licensed tracks from real bands, although Harmonix are at work on a second title that will give people more creative reign over the music itself.

Matsuura is hard at work on Major Minor's Majestic March, and spoke to Wired alongside veteran game maker Tetsuya Mizuguchi. "I really think that Mizuguchi-san and I are driving on a highway at high speed," beamed Matsuura. "Of course, we are not competing. But it's midnight, with no other cars on the highway. So sometimes, I feel sleepy. But Mizuguchi-san drives past me really quickly, and I think, 'Oh! I have to wake up.' And I start chasing Mizuguchi-san, and sometimes I'm going faster than him and he's sleeping, and I drive past him, beep-beep!"

By Luke Guttridge

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