Crowdfunding Creative Jam
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crowdfundingWelcome to the forty-third Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, August 15-Sunday, August 16. The theme is "Science & Scientists." Visit the Creative Jam over on LiveJournal.
Crowdfunding Creative Jam
Everyone is eligible to post prompts, which may be words or phrases, titles, images, etc. Prompters may request a specific creator, but everyone else may still use that prompt if they wish. Prompts may specify a particular character/world/etc. but creators may use the prompt for something else anyway and post the results. Prompters are still encouraged to post mostly prompts that anyone could use anywhere, as this maximizes the chance of having creators make something based on your prompt. Please title your comment "Prompt" or "Prompts" when providing inspiration so these are easy to find.
Prompt responses may also be treated as prompts and used for further inspiration. For example, a prompt may lead to a sketch which leads to a story, and so on. This kind of cascading inspiration is one of the most fun things about a collective jam session.
Everyone is eligible to use prompts, and everyone who wants to use a given prompt may do so, for maximum flexibility of creator choice in inspiration. You do not have to post a "Claim" reply when you decide to use a prompt, but this does help indicate what is going on so that other prompters can spread out their choice of prompts if they wish.
Creators are encouraged, but not required, to post at least one item free. Likewise, sharing a private copy of material with the prompter is encouraged but not required. Creative material resulting from prompts should be indicated in a reply to the prompt, with a link to the full content elsewhere on the creator's site (if desired); a brief excerpt and/or description of the material may be included in the reply (if desired). It helps to title your comment "Prompt Filled" or something like that so these are easy to identify. There is no time limit on responding to prompts. However, creators are encouraged to post replies sooner rather than later, as the attention of prompters will be highest during and shortly after the session.
Some items created from prompts may become available for sponsorship. Some creators may offer perks for donations, linkbacks, or other activity relating to this project. Check creator comments and links for their respective offerings.
Prompters, creators, and bystanders are expected to behave in a responsible and civil manner. If the moderators have to drag someone out of the sandbox for improper behavior, we will not be amused. Please respect other people's territory and intellectual property rights, and only play with someone else's characters/setting/etc. if you have permission. (Fanfic/fanart freebies are okay.) If you want to invite folks to play with something of yours, title the comment something like "Open Playground" so it's easy to spot. This can be a good way to attract new people to a shared world or open-source project, or just have some good non-canon fun.
Boost the signal! The more people who participate, the more fun this will be. Hopefully we'll see activity from a lot of folks who regularly mention their projects in this community, but new people are always welcome. You can link to this session post or to individual items created from prompts, whatever you think is awesome enough to recommend to your friends.
Crowdfunding Creative Jam
Everyone is eligible to post prompts, which may be words or phrases, titles, images, etc. Prompters may request a specific creator, but everyone else may still use that prompt if they wish. Prompts may specify a particular character/world/etc. but creators may use the prompt for something else anyway and post the results. Prompters are still encouraged to post mostly prompts that anyone could use anywhere, as this maximizes the chance of having creators make something based on your prompt. Please title your comment "Prompt" or "Prompts" when providing inspiration so these are easy to find.
Prompt responses may also be treated as prompts and used for further inspiration. For example, a prompt may lead to a sketch which leads to a story, and so on. This kind of cascading inspiration is one of the most fun things about a collective jam session.
Everyone is eligible to use prompts, and everyone who wants to use a given prompt may do so, for maximum flexibility of creator choice in inspiration. You do not have to post a "Claim" reply when you decide to use a prompt, but this does help indicate what is going on so that other prompters can spread out their choice of prompts if they wish.
Creators are encouraged, but not required, to post at least one item free. Likewise, sharing a private copy of material with the prompter is encouraged but not required. Creative material resulting from prompts should be indicated in a reply to the prompt, with a link to the full content elsewhere on the creator's site (if desired); a brief excerpt and/or description of the material may be included in the reply (if desired). It helps to title your comment "Prompt Filled" or something like that so these are easy to identify. There is no time limit on responding to prompts. However, creators are encouraged to post replies sooner rather than later, as the attention of prompters will be highest during and shortly after the session.
Some items created from prompts may become available for sponsorship. Some creators may offer perks for donations, linkbacks, or other activity relating to this project. Check creator comments and links for their respective offerings.
Prompters, creators, and bystanders are expected to behave in a responsible and civil manner. If the moderators have to drag someone out of the sandbox for improper behavior, we will not be amused. Please respect other people's territory and intellectual property rights, and only play with someone else's characters/setting/etc. if you have permission. (Fanfic/fanart freebies are okay.) If you want to invite folks to play with something of yours, title the comment something like "Open Playground" so it's easy to spot. This can be a good way to attract new people to a shared world or open-source project, or just have some good non-canon fun.
Boost the signal! The more people who participate, the more fun this will be. Hopefully we'll see activity from a lot of folks who regularly mention their projects in this community, but new people are always welcome. You can link to this session post or to individual items created from prompts, whatever you think is awesome enough to recommend to your friends.
Open Playground: Schrodinger's Heroes
Date: 2015-08-15 05:15 am (UTC)Open Playground: Torn World
Date: 2015-08-15 05:15 am (UTC)For more information about the setting, prompters should start here and contributors should start here. For specific information about submitting your work to our world continuity, rights and allowances, please see our contributor's rules. We have a space for sharing non-canon work on our site, so don't be shy about jumping in, even if you aren't familiar with the setting yet!
Pricing Your Crafts
Date: 2015-08-15 05:29 am (UTC)Most mad scientists are really just mad engineers.
Colorful beakers
Zoologist and chimpanzee
Exploring Mars
Title Prompts:
"For Science!"
"Astronomical Odds and Ends"
"The Manifold Geometry of the Soul"
"The Girl Who Liked Lasers More Than Boys"
Text Prompts:
Practicing science in a fantasy setting.
The discovery of a new field of science.
Forgotten scientists of history.
When you really really need a biologist and what you have is an engineer.
(no subject)
Date: 2015-08-15 12:07 pm (UTC)Mad scientists (as opposed to mad engineers).
set dressing.
Prompts
Date: 2015-08-15 12:16 pm (UTC)Alien Landscape in bright, flat, color shapes
I made this with Sunday Afternoon in mind -- the new demi-fiction TV show in Terramagne (Polychrome Heroics) dreamt up by
Text:
"Why did the chicken not cross the road?"
Mumpsimus (A Wiktionary entry)
Some jokes will fly right over your head, others will swerve to your left, and end up behind you.
a prompt idea
Date: 2015-08-15 04:32 pm (UTC)Re: Prompts
Date: 2015-08-15 05:58 pm (UTC)It's up access-only on my page right now, so your sneak peek LOOKS the way it should. It'll be posted for public access ASAP, but I've got a story I promised to post starting today if possible, and I hate to break promises.
Re: Prompts
Date: 2015-08-15 06:02 pm (UTC)Re: Prompts
Date: 2015-08-15 06:19 pm (UTC)set dressing
Date: 2015-08-15 06:49 pm (UTC)Re: Prompts
Date: 2015-08-15 07:13 pm (UTC)Cleaning up is hard to do!
(all except the blue, of course)...
Re: Prompts
Date: 2015-08-15 07:55 pm (UTC)I made this with Sunday Afternoon in mind -- the new demi-fiction TV show in Terramagne (Polychrome Heroics) dreamt up by [personal profile] dialecticdreamer. But it's a communal bucket for any open sandbox...<<
It reminds me of the "imaginary world" settings that some children's shows use for storytelling. Close enough to be recognizable, different enough to show that it's clearly make-believe.
Re: Prompts
Date: 2015-08-15 08:01 pm (UTC)Re: Prompts
Date: 2015-08-15 08:59 pm (UTC)Since my initial prompts to
Poem
Date: 2015-08-15 11:31 pm (UTC)334 lines, Buy It Now = $167
Re: a prompt idea
Date: 2015-08-16 05:01 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-08-16 05:43 am (UTC)Prompt the second: The oft-forgotten scientific figures of the past few centuries are aware that some people do, or are starting to, recognize them and their contributions. How do they react?
Poem
Date: 2015-08-17 05:54 am (UTC)324 lines, Buy It Now = $162
Poem
Date: 2015-08-17 10:40 am (UTC)60 lines, Buy It Now = $20