You can sign up for the project here.

Once you have signed up, you are a full member of the team.

There’s no other qualification necessary!

ACCLAIM GAMES PRESENTS THE BIGGEST COLLECTION OF GAME DEVELOPMENT PRIZES IN HISTORY.

- A Directorship title for a future MMO Acclaim Game. (No previous experience required, but like the TV show Apprentice, they need to stand out from thousands. The winner is chosen by David Perry and he personally will help guide the winner through the development of their first title with Acclaim.)

- The winner will receive standard Director royalties based on Acclaim’s income on all games they direct for Acclaim.

- The winning Indie Development team, which will develop the game, receives an instant prize of $100,000 and Acclaim will pay the license fees for whatever commercial game engine the team chooses. This combination is capped at $1,000,000. Yes, you are free to use ANY commercial game engine!

- The winning development team will also get industry standard royalties + cash advances from Acclaim based on all revenue sources for this title, for as long as they stay committed to supporting the game.

- For Artists, we have some extra prizes. For designing beasts (mounts) we have three prizes #1 = 30GB Apple IPOD, #2 = A Logitech gaming bundle, #3 = Carrada 5 3D Software. In a separate contest, the artist who designs the game logo will win a Logitech gaming bundle.

- A major goal of this project is to help new talent be discovered. Because this extremely high profile project features the biggest team in history to make a game, it is being tracked all over the world, and anyone who displays talent on the forums will be seen by professional game development companies and headhunters. We have already seen several individuals hired directly out of our forums. It’s working!

- Anyone who contributes to the design or development of the game will receive credit as a contributor, and will be able to add a major professional project to their game development resume.

- The project is run day to day by the Top Secret Advisory Board. This board consists 100% of dedicated community members. Any member can qualify to fill available slots on the Advisory Board, and Board members will receive a production credit for the game.

What kind of game do you need to make?

Imagine a huge world, where you could race the mounts from popular MMO's, cross breeding them, training your rider and your stable of beasts with skills, weapons, armor and attacks, then like Ben Hur, you race to the death while overcoming the obstacles of a hostile terrain.

Forget driving games... and even your favorite Kart games... The Top Secret game will be a racing game on steroids... like nothing ever seen before.

The challenge is first to show us YOUR vision for OUR design, then pull together a team to actually make the game.

From the teams that show up with fully playable games, the COMMUNITY will choose a winner. Acclaim will then publish the game.

To read the full details of the Design we need YOU to build, click here for the latest Design Document.

To read the full details of the Development Competition, including the Rules and Eligibility, click here

We have lots of resources available, and will announce more along the way.

The main requirement is that you base the game on the design ideas created by the Top Secret community. All key discussions on design or features must happen on our forums, so our community can participate.

Many external sites can also help. Our favorite is www.modcenter.com who can provide entirely free Team and Source File management services for you and your team, although there are more available. You can also use any game development software youchoose.

Any videos will be posted to YouTube with the Tag “Top Secret Project, Acclaim Games” so they can easily be found by our community.

You are welcome to ask the community to help with your development in any way, and even to join your teams. We also encourage you to become members of the community yourselves.

The goal of this competition is to use the power of community to discover new talent, to give them a real chance, and to help them succeed – and to publish one amazing game!

One VERY LUCKY individual, the person that shines most within the project (there’s always someone), they will be chosen by David Perry to become the Director of a completely new, fully funded massively multiplayer online game, guaranteed to be published by Acclaim.

Make no mistake, this is (by far) the biggest, and most important prize for the community that there has ever been in the entire history of the video games industry.

The winner will work from their home office and we will not insist that they be full time (so if you are a student, it’s OK.) But you will be required to respond to email and IM every day, you will be testing builds and you will likely need to travel to meet your development team. Acclaim will cover the cost of that travel.

You can be any age, any gender and from any country. However speaking & writing good English will be important.

The new director will get royalties from their game, and despite being thrown in at the deep end, they will still be given David Perry’s cellphone number and so will have an experienced game developer able to help with any issues 24/7.

The new director will also have a lot of press following them (more than most video game veterans). The gaming press is genuinely interested to see how this project works out, but they’re even more interested to see how this instant career path to Game Director actually works out.

Everyone else who gets their work into the game will have verifiable, high profile MMO credit(s) to their resume and experience under their belt.

Prize for the Development Competition
The winning Development team, (who will develop the game), receives an instant prize of $100,000 and Acclaim will pay the license fees for whatever commercial game engine the team chooses. This combination is capped at $1,000,000. Yes, you are free to use ANY commercial game engine! The winning development team will also get industry standard royalties + cash advances from Acclaim based on all revenue sources for this title, for as long as they stay committed to supporting the game.

Prize for the Directorship
The Member who shines the most on the forum, throughout the project, will receive a directorship of a new upcoming Acclaim MMO (not the Top Secret MMO, this will be something new!) They will be paid standard royalties, and will be in control of the entire process. They will have access to David Perry 24/7 (if they need him!)