Partly to pick out useful ones, partly because some have gone missing from my blogger search box. Think Google might have forgotten me.
This is still my favourite web show.
I once read a post where a blogger said that they had seen the creator, Felicia Day, putting up a flyer for her webseries in a coffee shop somewhere in LA, even though it was a couple of years after the launch of The Guild, and well after it had many many followers.
Such is the dedication of a successful web series creator.
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This is The Guild.
The Guild - Episode 1: Wake-Up Call
Cyd Sherman's online gaming addiction brings more than she bargains for...
THE GUILD HOME SITE HERE:-
http://www.watchtheguild.com/.
The Guild is a independent sitcom web series about a group of online gamers. The show started in the late summer of 2007, and for the first season was financed solely by Paypal donations from LOYAL FANS. Since season 2, The Guild has been distributed by Xbox Live and Microsoft and sponsored by Sprint.
Episodes vary from 3-8 minutes in length, and follow the Guild members’ lives online and offline.
Click here for the story behind The Guild.
Seems like a bunch of writers and actors got together... and just made it, and uploaded it themselves...
From wikipedia,
"The guild was inspired and written by Felicia Day, an avid gamer, who until 2006 had been playing World of Warcraft. After a 2 year gaming addiction Day decided to make something productive from her experiences and wrote the series as a sitcom pilot. Day hoped to show that the stereotype of a man living in his parent's basement is not the only kind of gamer.
Due to concerns that a wider (television) audience would not be receptive to the comparatively niche setting, she decided to follow through with it online with Jane Selle Morgan and Kim Evey. Day already knew Sandeep Parikh and Jeff Lewis from the Empty Stage, a Los Angeles based comedy theatre, and their roles were written for them. The rest of the cast was filled through auditions.
After filming the first 3 episodes in just two and a half days they faced the problem of funding. After putting a donation link to Paypal the 4th and 5th episode were almost solely financed by donations"
"THE GUILD" on Twitter
http://www.twitter.com/theguild
"THE GUILD" on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/theguild
"THE GUILD" YOUTUBE CHANNEL
http://www.youtube.com/watchtheguild
"THE GUILD" COMMUNITY AREA and FORUM
http://community.watchtheguild.com
The Guild - Episode 2: Zaboo'd
Cyd Sherman's imaginary world becomes all too real when a gnome warlock shows up on her doorstep.
The Guild - Episode 3: The Macro Problem
Codex's problem with Zaboo gets sidetracked by a crisis in The Guild.
I probably can't recommend more highly following Felicia Day, if you're interested in creating a web series. Try these links below.
Click here for Felicia Day's BLOG
FELICIA DAY on twitter
ALL POSTS labelled THE GUILD here:-http://storygas.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Guild
All posts mentioning FELICIA DAY here
Click here for all my links to the biggest and most NOTABLE WEB SERIES
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Click here for all links to ONLINE COMEDY web series
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