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A batch of Polygon’s unit was laid disconnected pursuing Vox Media’s merchantability of the work to Valnet, but 2 of its erstwhile guides writers are launching their ain guides-focused website: Big Friendly Guide, which you tin find astatine bigfriendly.guide. Ryan Gilliam and Jeffrey Parkin founded and are co-owners of the site.
Guides marque Gilliam “feel similar I’m helping idiosyncratic bask thing that’s precise important to maine and I cognize is important to them,” helium tells The Verge. “And truthful erstwhile I mislaid the accidental to bash that astatine my accustomed 9-to-5, I wanted to proceed it.”
“I hatred sounding immodest oregon bragging, but what Ryan and I got truly bully astatine was helping radical play video games,” Parkin says. Their enactment connected guides helps radical person amusive with games, helium adds — and assists with things similar getting a elephantine equine successful Zelda.
Big Friendly Guide volition marque astir of its contented disposable for free, and the guides themselves won’t beryllium paywalled. But Gilliam and Parkin volition besides beryllium opening a Patreon for the tract arsenic a mode for radical to enactment the work, which volition besides springiness radical entree to a Discord. There volition beryllium a play podcast that’s escaped for everyone and a monthly subscriber-only podcast wherever Gilliam and Parkin volition sermon their sum plans.
There volition beryllium ads connected the tract to start. “For now, astatine least, we’ll tally ads to support the lights on,” according to the site’s About Us page.) But the absorption is much connected gathering a assemblage that trusts Gilliam and Parkin’s enactment and pays to enactment it. In summation to moving connected guides for games that involvement them, Gilliam and Parkin privation the assemblage to marque suggestions for guides that they tin see and respond to.
The merchandise of Big Friendly Guide is conscionable the latest outlet from Polygon staffers: erstwhile editor-in-chief Chris Plante launched the Post Games podcast and erstwhile curation exertion Pete Volk launched the PV Guide newsletter. The caller outlets travel the emergence of different indie gaming publications similar Aftermath and Game File.
With Big Friendly Guide, Gilliam and Parkin person humble expectations. “We’re not looking to physique a marque and merchantability it oregon anything,” Parkin says. “I don’t deliberation either of america privation to get peculiarly rich. We privation to support doing this. That’s truly what it comes down to.”
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