TriadCity Message of the Day
2005-03-13
The City's impressively Postmodernist Royal Gallery of Art is open,
including the first exhibition, contributed by our very own
Artist/Code Warrior, Mark.
You'll find the Gallery in the far northwest corner of the Park South.
Cross the Gray Bridge from Sanctuary Island; head west alongside the
Riverbank; you'll bump into it eventually.
With it comes the
Artist Role.
Artists participate in the growth of the City
and its culture by contributing their works of visual media to the TriadCity
game world.
Artists' work can appear anywhere in the City, but the
most common places are public areas such as galleries and libraries, and also
private homes.
Artists grow their characters via experience and Dinars awarded to them
by other players. Without these rewards, they have no way to advance -- and
no incentive to contribute. Thus your rewards are an important way in which you
participate in the culture of the City. When you view an Artist's work, there's
a spiff box on the left, just like Reporters' articles. Please be
conscientious.
Naturally, Artists may also sell their works to private collectors. The buyers
of better Player Houses may be worth speaking with.
Artist has no formal rolemaster. If you'd like
to be one, contact Mark or Poobah.
Note that, unlike every other submission to the TriadCity game world, you keep the
copyright on the digital images which your Artist characters contribute. That is,
when you post to a bulletin board, submit a map, write a graffito or script a
comedy routine, you grant ownership and copyright on that material to SmartMonsters.
Your digital images are different. You're merely allowing us to use them, without
giving up the copyright. This will probably be true of future digital media as well.
Note lastly that the Gallery will grow in a somewhat different way than certain other
public spaces such as the Library. While the Gallery will eventually be six stories
of exhibitions, restaurants and bookstores, its new rooms will open to the public
only as they're needed. Thus as of today we have just a small part of the ground
floor open to visitors. As more contributed works come online, more Gallery rooms
will open to house them.
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