Creator Partner Program
Thanks for your interest in partnering with us to re-imagine the online role-playing game experience. As life-long creators, our team is passionate about building the absolute best platform for you to beautifully host your creative works, connect with a broader audience, and develop a meaningful revenue stream.
Players love Alchemy for its immersive storytelling experience, but great content is what brings them to our platform. Because of this, we see no objective more critical than forming lasting friendships and mutually beneficial partnerships with those who choose to bring their creations to Alchemy.
We look forward to partnering with you!
Two Ways to Partner
You choose how you’d like to partner with us
60% + Perks
Publishers
For publishers and creators who’s content requires ingestion services and mechanization to support their game systems.
Features
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You send us your files and our ingestion team will build your Alchemy Universe for you.
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Your titles will receive premier promotional placement on the Alchemy platform, social channels, and community.
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Go beyond the sales metrics and gain insights into how players use your content with anonymized data logging.
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Get your title featured in our collectible content boxes and promoted at the most prolific gaming conventions in the US.
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Create collaborative works with other Alchemy creators and automatically split the proceeds from Marketplace sales.
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Create unlimited redemption codes so your existing customer can easily redeem their purchases through the Alchemy Marketplace.
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Asset Creators
For asset creators like composers and artists who do not require ingestion services or mechanization for their game systems.
Features
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Get the tools, training, and support you need from our team to bring your content to the Alchemy platform.
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Create unlimited redemption codes so your existing customer can easily redeem their purchases through the Alchemy Marketplace.
Creator Marketplace Page
Product Detail Page
Content Universes
Content Universe Home
Universe Article
Alchemy Marketplace
FAQ
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Generative AI is fascinating technology, but we think training AI models on creative works without the artist’s consent is unethical and damaging to the creative community. No product created using AI art or writing will be permitted on our marketplace, and we encourage creators to reconsider its use in commercial works.
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In order to maintain a high bar of quality and product fit, we do not extend invitations to all who apply to join the Creator Partner Program.
However, we want all creators to have the ability to share their works on Alchemy and are working on future tools to enable creators to monetize their Content Universes.
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We pay out all creators on the first day of every month.
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All kinds of TTRPG publications and assets. Settings, adventures, supplements, art, motion graphics, music, and ambient sound. If you’re curious about something specific, send us a message.
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Yes! To keep pricing competitive and value high, the minimum price you’ll be able to price your product is $5 USD.
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We’re obsessed with quality and excellent user experience and we want the content players buy on Alchemy to be as high quality as something we’d put out ourselves. Yes, an initial review process will be required on all content, but subsequent updates, tweaks, and changes can be freely done by the creator after their title is live.
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That’s the plan! Soon, creators will have the ability to accept subscriptions for unlimited access to a Content Universe.
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Eventually, yes! We’re working on a way for creators of any size to offer subscriptions to their Content Universes.
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Not yet, but we’re looking into support with the Patreon API. For now, you can generate as many redemption codes as you’d like and share them with your Patrons.
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In V1 of the Marketplace, you’ll have the ability to customize the main banner on your creator detail page.
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Nope! If you’re ingesting your own content, you’ll want to be somewhat proficient in Markdown to format your text, or use a text editor like Notion and export your content as Markdown.
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Not necessarily. Alchemy is built around displaying rich environments, but visual assets will be available on our Marketplace so Game Masters will have the ability to visualize scenes to your story with the artwork they have available to them.
Ready to Join Us?
Full Ingestion Services
You've already put in the hard work to create your title. We'll handle the heavy lifting of getting it into Alchemy for you. Here's how it works:
01 File Transfer
A dedicated member of our content ingestion team is assigned to your project and will reach out to you to facilitate the transfer of your source files. These are often InDesign packages and Photoshop files, but our team can also work with high-resolution images and PDFs.
02 Conversion
Your title is then converted to markdown, a universal text formatting language that Alchemy uses to parse headings, tables, sidebars, images, etc.
03 Content Universe
A Content Universe is created for your brand on Alchemy. Within your Universe, rich text articles are created for the contents of your title, while character stat blocks, magic items, spells, and more are entered as fully mechanized game-ready components.
04 Review
Once your Universe is ready for review, your ingestion partner will work with you to collect your feedback and make any requested changes or tweaks.
05 Launch
When you're ready to list your title for sale on the Alchemy Marketplace, you'll have the ability to set your price, schedule a release date, create a product description, and monitor sales data through the title's Module dashboard. You'll also be granted edit access to your Content Universe to make on-the-fly edits and changes on your own.
| Content Type | Estimated Ingestion Time |
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| Adventure Module | 25 hours |
| Campaign Setting | 40 hours |
| Bestiary | 60 hours |
| Large Supplement | 80 hours |
Title Promotion
You've created something great, and now it's live on Alchemy. We'll make sure everyone sees it, on and off the platform. When your titles launch on the Alchemy Marketplace, we'll celebrate the release with four weeks of premium promotional placement, posts on our social media accounts, and the Alchemy Discord community.
Beyond launch, your content is tastefully branded within the game experience, so players and spectators can tell which Content Universe a scene, magic item, or monster came from. Additionally, players who purchase your titles can view your other available modules and purchase them directly from the Universe individually or with a "complete my Universe" button.
| Placement | Duration |
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| Billboard (home screen) | First 7 days after launch (dedicated) |
| Featured Banner (Marketplace) | 4 weeks after launch (shared) |
| New Arrivals Row (Marketplace) | 4 weeks after launch |
| Social Media (Twitter / Instagram) | Launch Announcement |
| Alchemy Discord Server | Launch Announcement |
| Tasteful Product Placement (in-game) | Ongoing |
| Modules Tab (Universe) | Ongoing |
Player Insights
Coming in 2023
It's essential to know how many units you sold in a given period, but how often are players using your content after purchasing it, and what aspects of your titles are they interacting with the most? Gaining deeper insights into how players use your content on Alchemy can help you understand what features they love the most, helping you determine what to create next.
Aggregated player insights are displayed alongside your sales data in the Module dashboard for each title, while detailed metrics can be viewed on individual Universe articles.
| Content Type | Insight(s) |
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| Text Article | # of impressions, average time in article |
| Character Options (classes/races) | # of characters created |
| Playable Characters | # of characters created |
| Monsters and NPCs | # of times used in a game |
| Magic Items and Equipment | # of times used in a game |
| Spells | # of times used in a game |
Seasonal Content Boxes
Join the Alchemy team as they exhibit at the five biggest TTRPG conventions around the US, including Gen Con and PAX East, and have your title physically featured in one of our seasonal content boxes. Inside these beautifully crafted deck boxes is a premium tarot-sized collectible card with your title's artwork on the front and an Alchemy redemption code on the back.
Your title is demoed to thousands of attendees at the Alchemy exhibit booth throughout the convention, while profits from box sales are divided among the box's featured creators.
| Convention | Details |
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| PAX East | Boston, MA (April) |
| Origins Game Fair | Columbus Ohio (June) |
| Gen Con | Indianapolis, IN (August) |
| Gamehole Con | Madison, WI (October) |
| PAX Unplugged | Philadelphia, PA (December) |
Creator Collaborations
Some of the best writers, game designers, artists, and composers in the TTRPG community create content for Alchemy. As a content partner, you can work directly with fellow creators to build Content Universes and automatically receive payouts based on your predefined percentage splits.
To participate, all involved creators must be Alchemy content partners with an active Creator Account and added as a collaborator on the Module from the Content Universe.
Unlimited Redemption Codes
We get it. Alchemy isn't the only place you sell your content, but that doesn't mean your customers should be expected to buy it again when they want to play on our platform. That's why you'll be able to generate an unlimited number of unique redemption codes for any of your titles on Alchemy.
Use them for giveaways, your Patrons, or fulfilling Kickstarter rewards and track their redemptions directly in the Module dashboard.
Realtime Payouts
As business owners, we understand that timely payouts are critical to building a sustainable revenue stream. Instead of holding your commissions for months, we instantly send you your percentage of every sale when it happens. Powered by the same payment infrastructure as popular services like Lyft, Instacart, and DoorDash, Alchemy can facilitate instantaneous payouts just as a gig driver gets paid after completing a ride.
This model is especially beneficial for creators outside of the US, eliminating the hefty service fees from international money-moving services like Payoneer.
Ingestion Support
Let our team help you onboard to the Alchemy creator tools and get you started ingesting your titles on your own. You'll have a direct channel to our ingestion team when you have questions or need to book some time for a detailed walkthrough.