Brightlocker is a ‘crowd publisher’ that wants to turn your ideas into real games

The Internet has long enabled people to come together to form communities, fan clubs, and even funding groups — but now one company wants to enable people to use the Internet to help them publish their own games.

Brightlocker is a new kind of game-making platform that wants to combine crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, and social networking to empower people to release a game. The company refers to itself as a “crowd publisher” where the community involves itself in every step of the process. If you have an idea for a game, Brightlocker gives you the tools to pitch it, and then other people vote on their favorite concepts. If the company and the crowd select your game, professional developers build it and ship it, and you get a cut of the revenue. And to fund development, Brightlocker gives people plenty of ways to pay for certain perks. This is a new way of generating income in a gaming industry that is worth $99.6 billion, and it’s one that Brightlocker has put a lot of effort into.