Be Protagonist!

Show Notes: Most platforms take a large cut and call it a distribution fee. The creators, contributors, and workers who make the thing possible get what's left. This episode asks whether it has to be that way. Robyn Pacetti (Founder and CEO of Protagonists!) and Guillaume Gayot (finance advisor, novelist, and former Amazon colleague of Robyn's) join Sean to pull apart how Protagonists! is trying t...

Robyn Pacetti has been building the world of Forgotten Skies since 2007. It started as a personal TTRPG campaign world, built because she was tired of spending hundreds of hours in universes she didn't own. Nearly 20 years later, it's the demo world for Protagonists! In this episode, Robyn and Sean discuss where Forgotten Skies came from, how it grew, and why Robyn hesitated to use her own life's...

In episode 2 of Be Prontagonist! , Sean and Robyn get specific about who this platform is for and why that question shapes every design decision they make. They introduce two personas: the Solo Adventurer, a player who wants to lose themselves in a world where their choices actually matter, and the Entertainer, a creator who has a world in their head and wants an audience to walk through it. The c...

In our first episode, Sean sits down with Robyn Pacetti, founder and Sky Captain of Protagonists!, to answer the question at the heart of everything: why does this need to exist? Robyn shares the surprisingly personal story behind the platform, from pandemic-era walks through an empty Prague, to the frustration of never finding an audio experience that was actually worth coming back to. She talks...