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

[Steve Vosloo]

Thanks Andrea.

Yes, it'll need to be sanitized/white-labeled ... and yes, ARGs have 
many different permutations, but there must be some general 
across-the-board activities, e.g.

Plan
Create content
Market
Publish content
Manage gameplay
Close/debrief

These headings, and the many sub-sections in each, will be a kind of 
check-list to make sure we don't miss out key activities when budgeting.

Thanks,
Steve


Andrea Phillips wrote:

> 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?

>

>   


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