Felicia Day Stars in: Retarded Policeman Episode 8

We here at “The Guild” want to keep you up-to-date on what our actors and other crew are doing in the webisphere.  So we’re pleased to link you Episode 8 of “Retarded Policeman”, a web series created by one of the directors here at The Guild (Greg “Badass” Benson) that Felicia Day (Codex) is featured in!
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE1KivIjXI8

Check it out, and go to his channel and check out all the episodes if you like!

Guild Thank You Follow-Up Video

We got the trophy, so we posted our follow-up video to The Guild Thanks! That means….DDR Time. Poor Felicia. :)

Check out our Producer’s new web series!

OK, well, technically it’s not a new series but a brand new episode of the long awaited “Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show” just posted! Fans in the U.S. can check it out on YouTube and fans outside the U.S. can view it on Crackle.
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Forums Back UP!

Thanks to Guild fan Edgar Garcia, the forums are now up and running again!  We appreciate your hard and magical work Edgar.  Now everyone can again be forced to add numbers to post things about the show!  Click on the Forums button and have at it!

Great Article on “The Guild”!

We’ve had our fair share of writeups lately, but we’re definitely flattered and pleased as punch at Tilzy’s write-up on our show here, as well as a great video interview from SXSW with Felicia and Sandeep. Check it out! Thanks Josh and Co. @ Tilzy.TV.  Keep up with their great New Media Coverage by subscribing to their feed.  They obviously have good taste. :)

“The Guild” Press for Tuesday

I’m sure all this will let up soon enough, but we’re lucky to be getting a lot of coverage on our show!

Last night at the New Tee Vee meetup in LA, we did a little interview you can see here!

And thank you fan Darth Angelus for alerting us to some physical magazine goodness about The Guild in PC Gamer UK!  Quote:

“The Guild is about a small but diverse group of people who play an unnamed (but suspiciously WoW-like) MMO. The story kicks off when one of these players crosses the boundary between in-game friendships and real life, and drags the rest along. Day’s writing (she also stars and produces) is sharp and often very funny. And rather than resorting to the outdated geek stereotypes conventional TV insists on, The Guild lampoons real MMO player archetypes: the stay-at-home mother, the over-enthusiastic, etc. It’s also refreshing to watch something that’s professionally produced, about games, and doesn’t wildly, wilfully, insultingly misunderstand them. It’s Day’s show, she’s been a hardcore gamer for 22 years, and it shows.”

Here’s a jpg he took of the page.  We don’t get that magazine here, but now we have a picture!  Thanks Darth!

And lastly, Eldorian, a huge supporter of the show since the wee days last year, did another lovely writeup alerting WoW Stratics readers to our Episode 8 upload!  Read it here!

ComiCon Anyone?

So, we’ve been looking into doing something at Comicon, we will have our Season 1 DVD out around then, but the booths are totally sold out! Does anyone know of someone who would be interested in sharing a booth they have, or at the very least, letting us do a Guest appearance at their booth to meet fans? Send us any ideas about ComiCon you have at watchtheguild (at) gmail.com! Thanks everyone!

Temporarily Taking Down Donor Button!

Well, we’re in an interesting position here at the Guild: We’ve made our whole budget for the season! Because of all the new contributors finding us through our recent awards, we have gotten enough money to pay our actors a bit, the first time they’ve ever made any money on The Guild, so thank you so much!

With an embarrassment of riches like this, we are facing a very long credits for Episodes 9 and 10, and, since we don’t know if we’ll have a production partner for season 2 or not, we don’t want to take people’s money until we know we need it. So for now, we’re taking off the Paypal button.

If, in a month or so, we end up having our donors sponsor Season 2, we will put back the button. Also, we’re putting together a DVD of season 1 with lots of yummy extras, that will definitely be able to jump start us on the Season 2 budget if we so need.

Please make sure to put your email in the mailing list to the right in the sidebar, so we can contact you about our Season 2 plans, and how you can help the show in the near future!

Thank you so much for your support. We look forward to making you laugh many more episodes in the future, most immediately with Episodes 9 and 10!

Great Fan Art!

We at the Guild are excited to have received our first piece of fan art! Iscuxcar Din sent us this in the mail! Yellow Kitchen Gloves of Defense made Felicia’s day! Thanks so much!

Felicia’s Acceptance Speech from SXSW

Thanks for this link goes to hacksaway at Whedonesque! What a great link!

Gamespot’s Vlog entry about On Network/SXSW Greenlight Awards with Gamespot’s Homer Rabara includes interviews with Felicia and Sandeep and Felicia’s whole acceptance speech! Relevant parts are at 0:55, 5:00 and 6:24. Also has an interview with the whole crew after winning: Felicia, Sandeep, and producers Kim Evey and director/producer Jane Selle Morgan.

New Links about The Guild!

We’ve gotten a lot of cool press about our show lately, so we have some links we’d like to share with you, and some sites we want to give some love to for their support!

• The Los Angeles Times’ New Media Blog declares “The Guild” winner of overall “Best Tuby” from the YouTube 2007 video awards! Thanks LA Times! :)
• New Tee Vee has a SXSW interview posted with Felicia and Sandeep about the show here.
• Daisy Whitney’s “New Media Minute” has an interview with tips from online content producers, including Felicia’s tips on how to get your show seen.
• Shout out to Massively, the news site about MMO games that we at “The Guild” love, who posts about Episode 8 and our wins. They’ve been a great supporter of the show, along with Veronica Belmont at Mahalo Daily, and the Joss Whedon fans at whedonesque.com so check their sites out!
• Also Alert Nerd has a really great blog entry on the show. Sarah’s comments are really lovely, especially the ones about the character “Codex”. They really pinpoint why Felicia wrote the series in the first place. Girl nerds as lead characters FTW! Thanks Sarah!

The Guild Wins the 2007 Best Series Award for Yahoo!

We are so excited to tell you that, thanks to your votes, The Guild has won the Yahoo 2007 Best Web Series Award! Along with winning the YouTube Best Series Award for 2007 on Thursday, and our winning the SXSW/On Networks Web Series award a few weeks ago, this has been a whirlwind month for our show!

We want to thank everyone, especially our donors for making it possible for us to film and make our episodes. Without you, there would be no show to garner attention and make people laugh.

We will be releasing episodes 9 and 10 on an accelerated schedule to ramp up to the end of season 1. Make sure to stay tuned. And again, thank you!

We Won!

With 39.9% of the vote, The Guild trounced the competition in the series category of the YouTube Awards!

http://www.youtube.com/ytawards07winners

We want to thank every single person for their vote(s). As we said in the post below, we have the best fans in the universe.

Will update with links to press that Felicia is currently doing in NYC! Oh….and that DDR video :) Will be edited this weekend!

Episode 8: Tipping Point

Updates on the Video contests to be posted ASAP. Thank you each and every one of you for your votes. There is no better fan base on the web.

We released Episode 8 today as a thanks for all your linking and support, and will be releasing 9 and 10 a bit faster to ramp up to the end of this storyline. Very exciting to be creating content for you, our fans, right now. You are the best.

Oops, we’re back up again!

So, the website went down today due to a user error by Felicia with the mailing list (Sorry to anyone who got an outdated email alerting them to EPISODE 4!?!) But thanks to uber fan, Edgar Garcia, the site is back on it’s feet again.

And…need I remind you to vote again in the YouTube awards?

www.youtube.com/ytawards07

Click on “Series” to vote for us. You can vote for us every day, 1 x a day until Wed.

Oh, and Yahoo too:

http://www.yvideoblog.com/blog/2008/03/11/yahoo-video-awards-best-series/

Thanks again Edgar! You’re a true Guild hero!

Thank you Darth Angelus!

Fan of “The Guild” Darth Angelus and the crew at Bathtub Productions created a video to support The Guild in this week’s competitions. We at the show want to thank them for making our day!

The force is with us!

HELP! Felicia was KILLED by Break a Leg!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbWXyremU5o

So, this means war Folks. PLEASE PLEASE vote until Thursday, home and work, this cannot be won with such a dirty move!  (We are not advocating cheating at all, just organic voting please.)

http://www.yvideoblog.com/blog/2008/03/11/yahoo-video-awards-best-series/#comments
Please, get everyone you know to vote! Such shenanigans cannot be rewarded! Felicia was a SLAYER after all!

And vote again in the YouTube awards if you can as well!
http://www.youtube.com/ytawards07

Guild Thank You Video!

We created a little video on set yesterday to thank you, our fans and viewers, and to get everyone to vote in the Yahoo and YouTube video awards!

Or check it out Here!

No, Felicia is not having a seizure.

Thank You To the Extras!

We shot Guild Episode #10 yesterday, wrapping up the first story arc in our show! Yay! We wanted to thank the following fans for coming out and helping us by being extras!

• Brandon Richard (Maggiemcice)
• Seth Watkins (Bearmauler)
• Crista Elise Bergmann (Tinklet)
• Jim Van Cooney
• Morgarten (Horizons Shadow)
• Cate
• Roger Barr (of I-Mockery)
• Corey Dennis (Koyote)
• Wayne Brandenburg (Who got upgraded to being our Sound Guy on set, CRAZY!)

Thank you each and all for being in the background of episode 10! And a hearty thanks to the donors who made this episode possible!

SXSW Interviews with “The Guild” and…remember to Vote!

Remember to vote in the Yahoo Video awards! Break a Leg is creeping up on us, so if you haven’t voted, please just cast your vote, it’s an easy click! I suspect there’s a stealth campaign to steal the win, so don’t let that happen!

And most importantly, vote in the YouTube awards! You can vote EVERY DAY, 1 X per day, until the 19th, and our competition there is going to be very hard to beat. We’re in category with a big, glossy, corporate funded series, so help the little guy win…that’s us! :)

Here are a few interviews for you to enjoy from SXSW:

• Sandeep and Felicia are interviewed by Veronica Belmont at Mahalo Daily!
• Felicia speaks with TV Week about The Guild’s win at SXSW
• Sandeep speaks with The Escapist about internet fame!

Will update with more articles as our interviews are posted!

BTW…Please vote :)

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