I was flattered to be a guest on the fourth installment of the Transmedia Talk podcast series hosted by Robert Pratten and Nick Braccia. We talk about new models of commercial entertainment, participatory entertainment, and (of course!) transmedia storytelling, and Haley Moore and Dee Cook give a rundown of the latest ARG experience from NoMimes [...]
I write about building collaborative commercial entertainment models by sharing how Runes of Gallidon was developed.
Earlier this week I was interviewed by Heather Leonard at The Business Insider about my company, Brain Candy, LLC, and its first internally produced entertainment property, Runes of Gallidon. It was just one part of an amazing whirlwind trip to NYC where I was able to: – have dinner with Ivan Askwith, Cheryl Furjanic, and [...]
The formula is deceptively simple, and 1,667 words a day seems like a very reasonable target. What could possibly go wrong? I’ll be able to answer that first-hand by December 1st after completing my first venture into NaNoWriMo. My goal is to complete a novel set in Runes of Gallidon, as well as at least [...]
A summary of the Renewable Franchise Model developed by Brain Candy, LLC and used to build the collaborative commercial entertainment property, Runes of Gallidon.
Posting will be light for the rest of the month – Brain Candy is busy gearing up for a Runes of Gallidon appearance at Comic-Con in San Diego in (gasp!) two weeks. Let me know if you’re heading down. Kali Chung will be reprising her cosplay role of Ruena, a character from Runes of Gallidon, [...]
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 [...]
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.
Just stumbled on an interesting site, Erth Chronicles, where Richard (James Johnson) is allowing artists to submit their original works for posting on the site. He’s the author behind the Erth Chronicles fiction (Book I, The Enemy’s Son, is available for purchase now), and he’s inviting artists to submit their works to him for posting [...]
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 [...]