Guildofwriters.org

[semplerfi]

Yeah, and a webmaster who won't give his domain free or cheap for the good of the community. :/

Er, sorry, but that gets me mad

-Kato

What were his thoughts on combining efforts?

[Chacal]

That was quite interesting.
I like how he ties in information from different sources such as Exile.
Good soundtrack too, and good visuals.

[Marten]

The person originally behind the now-abandoned GuildofWriters.org is this guy:
http://www.xanderdavis.com/

You may recognize one of the groups mentioned on that page, Dreamseed, as being the group that was working on the now-abandoned project, Aveara: An Empire Beyond MYST.

It's too bad these things were started and never finished.

[Chacal]

Yes, lots of unfinished projects in the Myst universe...

This seemed to be a big effort. Looks like they had people from several places.
Looking at the team roster, I see Matt Witkowski (Web site music).
Also François Jolin (music) is a Quebecer.
Judging by his writings I'd say Alexander Davis is American ("although I'm not advocating consumption of wine unless you're of legal age...").

I wonder why they stopped. Probably some key members just lost interest.

The book interface on guildofwriters.org is great. We should use something similar for presenting our Ages on the Web.

[Tweek]

Matt (or TW) is not Dan'nee.

[Aloys]

Yes, it's too bad the site stopped being updated, it was extremely well done.. Same goes for Aveara. I didn't remember it was the same people who did both... (else I would have found it sooner. x( )
Aveara was really looking nice, but a couple people probably lost motivation and the whole thing went poof slowly. (or perhaps quickly). Motivation really is the key to internet-based projects.. (and some times you need a lot of it to complete a project -- especially something as large as Aveara.)

But as nice looking and interesting as Aveara was I'm much more impressed by the GoW.org site; because it was completed. How many sites have we seen seen that had a great 'coming soon' page but never saw the light of day?

[Chacal]

Woops, I should have checked my names... Matt is neither Dan'nee nor Dan'ni on UO. I thought he was Dan'ni.