The Guild
Felicia Day does Dragon Age
So for the last little while Felicia Day (aka Queen of the Geeks) has been tweeting about a “mystery project” she’s been working on. Day is most famous in geek circles for writing, producing and acting in a web series called The Guild, as well as being Penny from Dr Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog. Not to mention acting in two other Joss Whedon shows, Buffy: the Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse.
Last night the mystery project was revealedto be a new web series called Dragon Age: Redemption. That’s right, EA/Bioware have asked her to do to Dragon Age what she’s unofficially done to World of War craft. Make it cool and bring it to a different kind of audience. Details are a little thin on the ground but USA Today had the scoop and also did a nice little Gamer Profile on Day.
She has also blogged a little about the project, but no doubt the best place to get more info as it happens is to follow @FeliciaDay on twitter. She tweets a lot.
So info dump aside, what do I think? I think this is super cool. I’m not a huge Guild fan, but think that it’s pretty impressive that it’s been going for 4 whole seasons, and was bank rolled for the first season by fan donations. Day also then managed to keep total creative control when she signed a distribution deal with Microsoft. Also Felicia Day is a real gamer, she plays games, loves games and understands why the rest of us do. A quick quote from the USA Today article:
A life-long game player, Day is fully aware they have a poor track record when it comes to adaptation. “I am an organic gamer and I love games, and I particularly love this franchise,” she says. “I put every single effort into making this something that gamers will be proud of. Even though we were constrained a lot as a Web series, none of the people who were involved took that as a constraint. They took that as a challenge.”
So yeah, I look forward to seeing this when it comes out. I doubt it will be at the same time as Dragon Age 2, but hopefully not too long after.
Come on and share a potion with me
A couple of days ago the interwebs seemed to be hit by a new Felicia Day lead phenomenon, Do You Wanna Date my Avatar? Felicia, along with her Guild co-stars, released to the public a music video of the song written by her and Jed Whedon (of Dr Horrible fame). More on the process behind making it here. On the same day #datemyavatar was one of Twitter’s trending topics and has remained there (though looking just now trending topics seems to have wandered off…)
It is, with out a doubt, funny. It’s also catchy as hell and the video pokes fun at both the MMO scene, their own show and music videos in general. Watch it, buy it off iTunes if you like it (currently the top selling video there) and watch The Guild.