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 site and this blog is adding to the mix of emotions.
Still, the main one is excitement to finally get this site up and on the web. For the first time in my life I was able to marry my personal interests with a professional effort, and even though I had to sacrifice time away from family and friends, put a lot at risk, and logged more hours than I can count, the hard work just doesn’t feel that…hard. Fascinating how your perspective on “work” changes when it stops being work.
Before closing out this post, I have to mention three people who did the technical heavy lifting to get the concept and design off paper and on the web. That honor belongs to the following individuals (and you can read more about them here):
Markus Sandy of Apperceive, Inc.
Jen Simmons of Milkweed Media Design
Nathan Eliot of T9 Productions
Many thanks to Markus, Jen, and Nathan for their help over the last few months. If you need help with any web/I.T./technical projects, I highly recommend you consider using them.