GoW Intro
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What is the Guild of Writers?
The Guild of Writer's is a community of Age creators (collectively known as Writers) who model, texture, design sounds, animate, script, or do anything vital to the creation of Ages in Myst and URU. It is a friendly and collaborative community, not one of hostility, working toward the common goal of building new and exciting Ages.
The Guild of Writers, as it stands in its present form, was formed on the basis of many explorers collaborating to make something better. We take great pride in our accomplishments and continually strive to create great things whether they be content creation tools, ages, or something else entirely.
About the Guild of Writers
The Guild of Writers was created by fan response when Cyan Worlds, Inc. released the age Kirel in Episode Seven their Massively Multiplayer Online Game, Myst Online: Uru Live. The age enabled explorers to don "Guild Supporters" T-Shirts for five specific D'ni Guilds. The Guild of Writers as we know it today evolved out of the determination of those who wore the Writers' Shirts and the merging of several, previously separate, Uru content creation groups.
Writing
With the closure of Myst Online: Uru Live, we were never able to reach our initial goal: creation of custom content for MOUL. However, we hold out hope that, should another incarnation of Uru Live arise, we will be allow to contribute content to it. However, we still are still free to create content for Uru Ages Beyond Myst. To create said content we use a free, open source modeling tool called Blender, coupled primarily with our own tool PyPRP, which exports files readable by the Plasma Engine that Uru uses.
Guild Leadership
The Guild of Writers is led by a Guild Council of consisting of these positions, as outlined by the generally approved Guild of Writers Structure Document:
- Guild Councilor of Communication and Public Relations (Current:Paradox)
- Guild Councilor of Forum Management (Current: Kato)
- Guild Councilor of Tool Development (Current: Tsar Hoikas)
- Guild Councilor of Building (Current: Aloys)
- Guild Councilor of Sound and Vision (Current: ChaosSong)
Councilors were elected in January of 2008 and serve for an indefinite term. For more information on structure, please see the approved structure proposal.
