[arg_discuss] Budget and/or project plan for running an ARG

[Jeromy Barber]

I don't have one for ARGs.  I budgeted many a film when I lived in NYC, and
it's my opinion that you have to be starting with a budget to find a form
that would make sense for your project.  Because ARGs have such diverse and
innovative experiences, it's going to be tough to find a boilerplate budget
with standardized line items with predictable costs.

For instance, if you don't have any money and are working with volunteers,
then there is no budget.  If you have $5000 for your game, then you plan
your ARG with those limitations in mind.  You get rid of 25 web site design
plans and go with 3 instead.  If you are dealing with a larger budget than
that, then I recommend hiring someone to help with the budgeting.

Jeromy 

-----Original Message-----
From: arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org [mailto:arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org] On
Behalf Of Andrea Phillips
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 12:55 PM
To: Discussion list of the IGDA ARG SIG
Subject: Re: [arg_discuss] Budget and/or project plan for running an ARG

Hi, Steve. Thanks for posting, it's a good question.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Steve
Vosloo<steve.vosloo at shuttleworthfoundation.org> wrote:


> I'm putting together a project proposal for running a shortish ARG (2

> weeks). Does anyone have an old budget that I can use as a starting point

> AND/OR a project plan.


I think you might have a little trouble with this, simply because this
type of information is often covered by NDAs. And the budget in
particular is tricky because you have the shoestring
volunteer-time-and-free-web-services kinds of ARGs, the
million-dollar-plus ARGs, and every price point in between.

But you're right, it would be really useful to have sample budgets and
project plans available as a springboard... even if it's just a
template with the numbers redacted. Does anybody have a sanitized
version of such a thing they might be willing to share, or even post
to ARGology?

-- 
Andrea Phillips
http://www.deusexmachinatio.com
Words * Culture * Interaction
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