Will Wright Making A Crazy New TV Show

The superstar designer of SimCity and The Sims is creating a show for Al Gore's TV/Web channel, Current TV, where viewers can decide what happens next.

Wright has invented some kind of new technology that allows users to vote and shape the plots of an unspecified number of 30-minute episodes of the show tentatively titled Bar Karma. Albie Hecht, former president of Spike TV and president of Entertainment at Nickelodeon, is co-creator and executive producer of the series. The show will debut sometime in early 2011.

"Bar Karma is a culmination of over a year's work and I am very excited to see the results as we join together not only gamers and television viewers, but actually create a community that will be empowered with a professional production team,” Will Wright said in a statement. “To develop and lead an initiative like this fulfills a long held passion for television, and I am thrilled that Current would provide the resources and creative support to bring this to air.”

According to Current TV, Bar Karma will work like so:

STEP 1 – JOINING – Viewers will log on to “Current TV’s Creation Studios” at www.current.com/barkarma through their computers and mobile devices and join the online community.

STEP 2 – CREATING – Viewers will submit potential story ideas on an ongoing basis. Each week the show producers will provide the viewing community with a rough outline for the upcoming episode. Viewers will then have the ability to create various storyboards of unlimited plot possibilities.

STEP 3 - VOTING – Viewers will browse, comment, and merge various ideas for the episode. Final proposals will then be reviewed and voted on.

STEP 4 - PRODUCING – After the final storyboard is selected by the community, Hecht and Worldwide Biggies will adapt, shoot, produce and edit the winning storyline into a 30 minute television episode.