Looks like Dave Perry's Top Secret will be well underway very soon. Just last week, over 20,000 volunteers signed up for the project, making Acclaim's team the biggest in game development history.

We earlier reported that Acclaim and 24-year industry veteran Dave Perry are working on a ground-breaking project to build a massively multi-player online RPG wherein ordinary people will be screened and given the opportunity to learn the ropes from Perry himself. A winner will be chosen among the finalists and a contract to direct a future game is the ultimate prize.

"I want it to be a title they own and feel excited about," said Mr Perry, a 24-year veteran of the games industry." He also commented that he was amazed at the overwhelming response and said he expects to have a total of 100,000 members in the team by the end of the registration period.

However, the maestro clarified that he and Acclaim are not doing this at a whim and said, "We are not doing this for fun; this is a professional game we are trying to make. It's a business."

The registration has almost no requirements and Perry says that resumes do not really matter. What he says they are after is not technical skills but raw, unadulterated creative impetus from the game community. He also foresees that people from other game outfits will be walking amongst the respondents in search of unrefined gems and hire them for their projects.

In the end, Perry says, the entire game community will benefit from their project and he says that it will very well lead to the business proving to the world that the industry is much larger than people think.