The Guild (web series)
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Felicia Day |
| Starring | Felicia Day Vincent Caso Jeff Lewis Amy Okuda Sandeep Parikh Robin Thorsen |
| Composer(s) | Don Schiff |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 70 (list of episodes) |
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| Producer(s) | Felicia Day Kim Evey Jane Selle Morgan |
| Location(s) | Los Angeles, California |
| Running time | 3–12 minutes |
| Distributor | Independent (2007, 2012–2013) Microsoft (2008–2011) |
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YouTube MSN Video Xbox Live Marketplace Zune Marketplace |
| Original release | July 27, 2007 – January 8, 2013 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
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. 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 series is also available via DVD and streaming on Hulu and Netflix.
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.
In a phone interview after the end of the sixth season, Felicia Day confirmed that the web series is complete.
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.
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