Dave Perry, Messiah creator and chief creative officer for Acclaim, has unveiled a map of the games industry. The wiki-style map invites the industry to put itself on it – literally – to build a comprehensive guide to the gaming geography.

The map will include studios, publishers, outsourcing companies, colleges, freelancers and the press. Perry's team has already put in around 1,000 ‘pins’, and the site's now open for contributions from the gaming community.

The project's being funded by Perry and not-for-profit. In fact, he's rejecting any form of advertising and won't even take your cash as a donation.

It's all go for community-oriented gamers with a bit of get-up-and-go at the moment. Microsoft just announced its XNA development competition for bedroom programmers. On top of that Perry himself's involved in a new Acclaim project that will allow gamers to contribute to the development of its upcoming game Top Secret. He's a bit keen on the whole community thing, it seems. Perry commented:



He goes on:



What a nice chap. SPOnG's already put itself on the map. If you want to see more, click here.


^{Source: MCV}