It's time. GW6 is almost done. I've seen a working version. Not the fanfare reveal maybe but it's not 100% yet so who knows panda might suffer a sudden heart attack and back to square 1, but it's coming! And we need some active staffers. I plan on hiring at least six more so when the site goes up we'll have a routine set up instead of the molasses pace going on now. But what does a staffer do?

Well with any site it's nice to have a daily something on the front page to give people incentive to read. You can't bank on a game a day being released, so it's up to articles. We want people to have something to talk about.

Perks Staffers Do NOT Have:

-They have no forum power. So many people have been like "and from a STAFF MEMBER" as if that matters.
-By no forum power they do not have the ability to warn or ban people or immunity from this.
-You do not see the mod forum.

Perks Staffers Do Have:

-Everything premium members have, and for free!
-Access to said premium forums, including the mysterious...zoo...
-A neat little green color.
-A gamingw.net email address.
-Access to the staff forum which will and does function as main site discussion.
-It looks good if you ever want a game journalism job for sure.

Responsibilities for Games Staffers:

-This ain't a hard job, but you're required to write one article over about a week and a half. Divided between the staffers and two blogs, and discounting the regular feature like Forum Friday, it's not too tough to do this.
-Games articles are ranked in importance first in actual news; stuff like AGM coming out or a legal translation of RMVX or whatever should be posted IMMEDIATELY, that's the day's article, easy. Covering major indie releases, particularly GW's own like Barkley 2 or Faceless, comes next. After that, it's game talk! We'd really prefer more indie coverage than mainstream, but if you think you've got an important fact or idea someone in IGN won't talk about, hit that shit up. Play it by ear for the most part; if you fuck up, we'll tell you.
-Advice and shit is in the Staff forum, so don't worry.
-The Staff forum also has a subforum where you can post articles and have people give criticism so if you're afraid of any of this entry level shit, don't worry.

How to Apply:

-Send me a PM. In this PM first off tell me what you'd like to write and more importantly why YOU write it better than someone else. Oh you like rm games, that's nice. PTizzle, Aurabolt, and Carius all got bigger dicks than you and have been doing it longer, why are YOU a good call as well? I'm making it sound tough, but just tell us not why you want to be a staffer but why you will be a good staffer!
-Sample article helps. Sample articles help even more. If you write shitty articles but you've got a regular series going on, congrats you're better than some of the old staffers.

So this is the annoucement; any questions, or comments, post here. I am saying without exaggeration that while this isn't going to be the last call for staff probably, it is easily the most important. We need to open the new site GOOD. We are the content delivery system.

THE PHONES RINGING...ITS YOUR NATION OF GW...WILL YOU ACCEPT THE CHARGES?

i said something about this in the mod forum, idk if you saw. i can still send you a pm if you want, i guess.

edit: WHOOPS this should have probably been for the community topic

...rigggghhhhtt...GW6 is coming... 

I'll believe this when I see it. If this is another joke, then god damn...you guys...I ain't going to take anymore of this shit. Remember when you guys were going to merge with RMXP.org and said you would no longer accept rm2k3 games...I actually believed you guys, until the cat went out of the bag.

That is because it's april fools
Also hope there'll be more staffers.

Nah I saw a mockup as well, it's pretty much legit. Also, Silver4Donuts, that was on APRIL FOOLS. Is it April Fools Day today... nope

I'll believe this when I see it. If this is another joke, then god damn...you guys...I ain't going to take anymore of this shit. Remember when you guys were going to merge with RMXP.org and said you would no longer accept rm2k3 games...I actually believed you guys, until the cat went out of the bag.

We're sorry you're a 23 year old McDonalds employee that's gullible as hell.

I'm sorry, Silver, that you seem to think the whole world is against you but it's because you are annoying and no one can tell if you're genuinely a troll or someone who's just completely clueless regarding how horrible they are.  You're like Spongebob or any nasally cartoon character; you're well meaning or whatever but GOD DAMMIT you just rub off on people horribly.

So, as much as we want to see "Monopolo Design Philosophies" I think you should instead work on your people skills.

guys refresh your history; I'm the dude who reregged just to bitch at everyone for promising gw6 being done and then trying to blame drule for it, I'm the last person to bullshit you on this.

also this isn't gw6 discussion topic, one will probably be made when the alpha is ironed out, so lets keep chatter to a minimum.

I'm interested in submitting articles on game design and theory as well as puzzles and puzzle making, but I think I might do better as a sort of independent contributor.

maybe you should specify exactly what kinds of writers you're looking for (game reviewer, tutorial writer, whatever) otherwise you'll just get a bunch of people applying who intend on writing hookah and movie review articles.

last month we had eight articles okay, at this point we're looking for anyone so we can get a rhythm going, then I think we'll ease into a pattern. one thing I'd like to try for instance is if everyone, not just me, slowly went into series of article like the interview one. it helps it look not so spastic. but that needs to be determined with more staffers.

seriously if you think you can write anything tangentially community or games related, give an application.

secondly bumping both topics to say: 1. if you are new, you can still apply. however, a sample article would really help you out in this regard.
2. you must PM me, not just post in this thread! the thread is for clarification, not application.
3. STEEL YOU KIND OF HATE ME so what. everyone knows I don't carry grudges for too long. the only reason your persona would prevent you from being staff is if you're obviously doing it for terrible reasons, and the current staff can always override me if they think I'm gonna read an app and be like FUCK THAT GUY AM I RIGHT?

Yes I would love to be a staffer, but I would end up using it for self-promotion. 


If you do need a Music Composition staffer, though, I would be more than happy to take the role. The reason is, I've wanted the GW Main Site to have a focus on Composition for Indie Games for a while now, and I wouldn't mind creating articles and getting Soundtrack Musicians to connect with GW Producers of RPG Maker or 'other engine here' Games.

Any deadline for choosing Staffers? or is it you are done when you are done?

I'm gonna assume submissions will trickle down by Friday at the latest.