Making of Gallidon, Part 4 – Scoping Submissions

02.27.09 Posted in Runes of Gallidon by

A deceptively small decision about how to handle the monitoring/editing/filtering of content submissions ended up having the largest impact to our approach to the site design, internal operations, and management of submissions.


Making of Gallidon, Part 3 – Licensing

02.20.09 Posted in Runes of Gallidon by

I think the most challenging aspect to getting Runes of Gallidon off the ground was the daunting task of creating the legal foundation necessary to allow the creative community to share each other’s ideas and intellectual property without breaking copyright laws. It didn’t take long to figure out that our “open source” approach to content [...]


Making of Gallidon, Part 2 – Multimedia

02.06.09 Posted in Runes of Gallidon by

Having put the basic framework of the world and the rough business model together, Tony and I began discussing exactly what kind of content we would want in that world. Based on Tony’s background as a writer and my brief, distant training as a writer (a B.A. in creative writing twenty years old and collecting [...]


Gnome Stew posts about Runes of Gallidon

02.06.09 Posted in Runes of Gallidon by

Thanks to the crew at Gnome Stew for giving Runes of Gallidon a nod recently! Expanding Gallidon through role-playing game modules as a way of pushing the world experience off the site and onto the gaming tabletop has always been a goal, and I’m grateful for the post from a recognized site devoted to helping [...]


blogstring.com posts about Runes of Gallidon

02.05.09 Posted in Runes of Gallidon by

Many thanks to Nathan Burke and Jason Brandenburg over at blogstring for the great and accurate write-up of Runes of Gallidon! Nathan was kind enough to commit the resources to writing a post, and Jason completely understood the business model, value offering, and the kind of creative collaborative space we are striving for with Gallidon. [...]


Creative Commons posts about Runes of Gallidon

01.26.09 Posted in Copyright, Runes of Gallidon by

I’m really pleased to announce that Creative Commons posted about Runes of Gallidon today! The permanent link is here. Cameron Parkins has been lending his support since we first approached Creative Commons last summer; many thanks to Cameron and the rest of the CC Crew for the post!


Making of Gallidon, Part 1 – The Concept

01.26.09 Posted in Digital Content, Runes of Gallidon by

Runes and Rice I committed to what became Runes of Gallidon while finishing a platter of bimimbap at a Seoul Brothers restaurant in April of 2008. I was having dinner with two friends, Tony Graham and Andy Underwood, and after a few weeks of evaluating our collective skill sets, I decided that our startup idea [...]


Runes of Gallidon – marketing machine is in gear…

01.16.09 Posted in Runes of Gallidon by

We officially started the public marketing efforts for Runes of Gallidon late this week. It is incredibly surreal, scary, exciting, and even somewhat anti-climactic (a significant lack of sleep is probably compounding the effect at the moment). For someone who has aggressively kept a private life – especially online – the act of launching the [...]