I'm excited!
With the setting concept competition wrapping up in 11 days, I find myself getting really excited about what we are working together to do.
If you look at it one way, we are building a role-playing game setting. That is exciting if you enjoy role-playing games and the infinite possibilities they present. I have been playing role-playing games since I was in grade school, and I have played a lot of different systems and settings. The settings I have enjoyed the most are the ones where I felt like I could make a permanent contribution. Sometimes those were the settings that I had developed via the games I ran. Other times it was the D&D setting that my DM had been building for years in which we would sometimes encounter long-retired PCs of other players or even our ourselves.
If I look at it another way, we are creating an opportunity for all those untapped creative minds in the hobby that are looking for an outlet to contribute to a real product. When I hear that freelance writers get paid as little as $0.01 US per word, I think there has got to be a better way to fuel this hobby and get more people's work out to more members of the gaming community. There are a handful of people that manage to break into the industry, but we are missing out on so many creative ideas by waiting for publishers to give the dozens of aspiring writers that contact them a chance to prove themselves.
That's what I want bySwarm to do. Give us as a hobby more exposure to creative ideas from more people and to get that exposure by working together on something fun and new. In these next 11 days, I am looking forward to seeing what the Swarm produces and more importantly what the Swarm decides to develop.
I'm excited!
