– musings by Scott Walker

Posts Tagged: making of gallidon


10
Apr 09

Making of Gallidon, Part 8 – Yours, Mine, Ours

While the overriding driver for the Brain Candy team to start Runes of Gallidon was a passion for the concept of building a shared world collaboratively, we also acknowledged that at some point we would have to figure out how we could share revenue with Artisans. Ah, the wonderfully tricky, sticky issues with money and creative efforts!

The success of Gallidon rests on the interest and participation of the creative community, so we aimed to structure revenue sharing in a way that would be attractive for Artisans.

Continue reading →


3
Apr 09

Making of Gallidon, Part 7 – What’s in a Name?

Choosing a name for the world was an interesting experiment that involved not just finding something different, unique, and appealing, but also ensuring that we could get the URL for the domain and (hopefully) not infringe on an existing trademark.

Continue reading →


3
Apr 09

Making of Gallidon, Part 7 – What's in a Name?

Choosing a name for the world was an interesting experiment that involved not just finding something different, unique, and appealing, but also ensuring that we could get the URL for the domain and (hopefully) not infringe on an existing trademark.

Continue reading →


27
Mar 09

Making of Gallidon, Part 6 – “Free Means Free”

One of the earlier realizations I had about handling content on the site was that if content can be digitized, the upsides of offering free digital copies far outweighed the downsides of not monetizing digital copies. Just the idea of trying to lock up the content seemed counter-productive to building an audience, if not outright impossible (look at the music industry’s failing struggle to find a way to offer audio files on their terms in a manner that doesn’t anger or inconvenience its customers).

Continue reading →


This monkey can type! is using WP-Gravatar