I've tried my hand at this as well.
Sorry that I did not bold all changes; this would have made it nearly unreadable!
And though the Code of Conduct is included at page bottom, this document is more an introduction to a GoW website/forums than anything else. The Code may be better off on its own page, along with the form elements permitting registration.
The paragraph in italics, I feel, should be included in a members-only page offering guidelines for storytellers, esigners, builders, etc.
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Welcome to the Guild of Writers!
Some general areas of our Forums are available to all interested parties.
If you’d like to be a Guild Supporter, you’re welcome to register, after which you’ll have the ability to post in our general forum areas. If you'd like to join the Guild of Writers, please read and agree to our brief Code of Conduct and register, after which you'll have access to members-only areas of the forums. Additionally, there are forums available only to specific Age Building projects and specific crafts in which members can choose to participate.
Guild Members can offer their skills to a Craft or to a project.
The guild Crafts are arranged as follows:
Storytellers:
Originate and develop the stories that support individual ages, and/or master storylines that unify groups of ages.
Artists / Designers:
Conceptualize the ages or groups of ages from the Storytellers’ writings. Conversely, some ages may of necessity be designed first, with Storytellers later called upon to craft supporting background for the age(s).
Builders:
Modelers, texture artists, animators and related crafts realize finished ages from the Artists’ / Designers’ draft concepts.
Musicians / Audio artists:
Compose and create both foreground and ambient music and sound effects for the age.
Programmers:
Tie together any Python stuff, PRP hacks, etc. They make sure that the age is "Coded Properly for Uru", and integrate any DirectX effects unavailable in the Builders’ toolsets.
Forums are provided for general discussion for each department, however most of the collaboration will occur in project specific forums. Although it is obviously not possible to follow this to the letter without wasting perfectly good, but independent ideas, please try to keep designs coherent. Nobody wants the forum to be full of completely unrelated ideas. If someone comes up with an idea, see if it can be related to existing projects.
Guild of Writers Code of Conduct
Our Guild of Writers membership has agreed that there should be certain guidelines that must be followed by all members of this Guild. The central reason for this has everything to do with achieving the element of surprise so key to a first-time player’s experience, and has little or nothing to do with egotism or selfish hoarding of information.
In addition to the existing Code of Conduct for Myst Online: Uru Live and the Terms of Service for Myst Online: Uru Live, a Guild of Writers-specific contract must be signed in order to join the Guild. Agebuilding Project members may also decide to have their own internally-binding Non-Disclosure Agreements and/or contracts, which will apply specifically to participants in that particular project.
Code of Conduct
By signing this contract, you agree that you will not disclose any storyline, screenshots, renderings, music clips, programs, discussions, or other Guild-related and/or project-specific material to any persons that have not signed this contract. Breach of this contract will result in at least a temporary suspension from the Guild of Writers, as judged by project leaders, guild administrators, and/or the Guild membership at large (TBD). Should a member be found guilty of an unauthorized leak, they will be banned from the members-only sections of the Guild of Writers forums until further notice. Means of appeal will be established through which, with the general consensus of the Guild, members will have the opportunity to be reinstated.
This document may be updated as a majority of our Guild members see fit.
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