The Plan

Summary:

The Future of Game Design Novice

The Plan

hartnell 06 Oct 2007 23:41

1. Game Design Novice becomes the host of the Game Design Guild.
   1. Thus, GDN becomes a flat encyclopedia of generic game design / programming knowledge, I'm also combining it with games.wikidot. I don't have time for both. We're not moving there, it's moving here.
      1. Flattening will begin immediately. This means combing pages that have to deal with "gravity" into the "gravity" page, including docs, and then linking to the appropriate wiki which has further information.
   2. GDN will serve as the center for these communities, research, and a place for noobs to find which wiki is appopriate for them.

I need you to ask questions, as even I'm not clear on the details. We're now riding by the seat of our pants.

—hartnell

Re: The Plan

Linkage2 07 Oct 2007 04:23

So, does this mean that GDN itself is now a source of "generic" info and each individual wiki will then explain how to do whatever in its corresponding language, so the reader can then apply their knowledge of the generic concept into their language?

Re: The Plan

hartnell 07 Oct 2007 05:37

Yes, and no. :) GDN is the source from which the other wikis will be created and a central axis. The admins of each community meet here, research, discuss their wikis, talk BS, like we always have. However, each wiki has an independent community (well, not yet, but it will come), so I'm expecting for the admin of one of these wikis to say one day "One of my noobs isn't getting variables." In other words, you're all hartnell's now.

—hartnell