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''The Guild'' is an American comedy web series created and written by Felicia Day, who also stars as Cyd Sherman (AKA Codex). It premiered on YouTube on July 27, 2007, and ran until 2013. Seasons two through five webisodes premiered on Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace, Zune Marketplace, and MSN Video. The webisodes were later made available on the official ''Guild'' website, YouTube, and iTunes.〔(Felicia Day Talks New Season of The Guild, Xbox Deal ), Wired Magazine〕 According to Day, Microsoft's business model changed after season five; Day wanted to keep ownership, so the episode premieres moved to Day's YouTube channel Geek & Sundry. The webisodes are also available via DVD and streaming on Hulu and Netflix.〔https://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Guild/70140447?locale=en-US〕 The show revolves around the lives of a gamers' online guild, The Knights of Good, who play countless hours of a fantasy MMORPG video game referred to as ''The Game''. The story focuses on Codex, the guild's Priestess, who attempts to lead a normal life after one of her guild-mates, Warlock Zaboo (Sandeep Parikh), shows up on her doorstep. Joss Whedon credits ''The Guild'' as one of the inspirations for ''Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog'', which also starred Felicia Day.〔(Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: An Oral History ), ''Entertainment Weekly''〕 In a phone interview after the end of the sixth season, Felicia Day confirmed that the web series is complete.〔http://paidcontent.org/2013/07/09/its-official-the-guild-is-100-percent-done-says-felicia-day/〕 ==History== ''The Guild'' was written by Felicia Day, an avid gamer, in between acting roles in several American television shows and movies. After two years of gaming, Day decided to make something productive from her experiences and wrote the series as a sitcom television pilot. The series was purposely kept generic to avoid copyright problems and to appeal to a wider audience of massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) fans, but Day based it on her experience with a ''World of Warcraft'' addiction. Day also hoped to show that the stereotypical man living in his parents' basement is not the only kind of gamer. She decided to produce the series online with Jane Selle Morgan and Kim Evey.〔 Day already knew Sandeep Parikh and Jeff Lewis from Empty Stage, a Los Angeles-based comedy theatre, and their roles were written for them. The rest of the cast was filled through auditions. After filming the first three episodes in two and a half days, they ran out of money. After donations were invited through PayPal, the fourth and fifth episodes were almost solely financed by donations.〔(All smiles as web shows come of age ), The Observer〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Guild (web series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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