Design Progress
Potential RPG February 21st. 2008, 11:20amAfter making some progress implementing new game features, I found myself leafing through my design journals to extrapolate the final design decisions. To solidify the ideas, I’ve spent a few days codifying the design in a wiki (DokuWiki with Dokubook template). Now I have a more rigorously defined design. There are still gaps (the 20% of the unfinished design mentioned earlier), but they are more clearly exposed, so I can code around them.
The most fundamental design change is to the character attributes. From a gameplay standpoint, the character system should feel more “classic.” Simply put, raise your attributes to become better at things. Strategic decision involves which attributes to raise, and what equipment best compliments them. From a technical standpoint, this affects many of the core content objects (characters, creatures, and items).
The new attributes have been implemented, but not integrated with any logic that uses them. As soon as I can, I will release a new client, so Alpha playtesters can at least see the character changes.
February 21st, 2008 at 1:49 pm
So, where is this design wiki? I’d be interested in seeing some of your new ideas.
February 21st, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Ha! I’ll bet you would. The design wiki is not public. You must stew in anticipation, clawing at your keyboard until such time as I see fit to release a client, and thereby release you from your anguish… Muah-ha-ha-ha…
Sorry, I’m drunk with power. Thank you for your inquiry.
March 5th, 2008 at 6:33 am
I have a bunch of dokuwiki formatted files and I want them to be uploaded into the dokuwiki server. Does anybody know if dokuwiki allows this?
M;
March 5th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
That’s a good question, but I do not know the answer. One of the features I like about DokuWiki is its “survivability.” Articles are stored as plain-text, human-readable, flat-files, making it easy to recover and transport. Without a database, it’s simpler to back up and restore.
However, given just a bunch of raw documents, I don’t know how to port them into an installation. Definitely ask at their forums:
http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki%3Aforum
April 30th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Hi: Found your website via DokuWiki Blogroll, and I know the answer to motif’s question.
I believe as far back as the 2007 builds DokuWiki has php command that can re-build the
indexes, this will also let you bring in a bunch of files, then have them added to the indexes.
In the April 2008 builds its “your wiki root/bin/indexer.php”
I am not sure if it can be accessed via the web browser, I usually run it on the comand line.
Good luck.
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:30 pm
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Design Progress, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.