thread: 2006-06-10 : Two more resources for that game
On 2006-06-14, Clinton R. Nixon wrote:
Ok, if anyone's still reading this thread, you are a member of the hardcore. I have questions - and Vincent, if you want, tell me to do my polling somewhere else.
In the original source text for these adventure elements, you had a sort of two-container system to hold them in.
type of element (event, person, location, threat) -> arena (rural, urban, magical, military, etc) -> element
In Vincent's new tool, oracle.exe, there's none of this. There are, basically, tags on each element, like so:
"The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land."—tagged with—> "event group"
In making his tool cross-platform, I'm expanding it to take outside files, so anyone can use this for their own list, if they want. What I'm trying to determine is what people find useful out of the above. Specifically:
(1) Is the arena interesting or necessary? My thought is yes, especially for other projects. It basically lets one file hold many sub-files. My file contains, for example, TSOY adventure seeds, and my arenas could be "Khale" and "Ammeni", allowing people to choose to restrict their adventure elements to one of these.
(2) Are the tags a better way to go? At first, I thought so, but in actually trying to write the XML out, I discovered I liked the constraint of having to pick even more. It's still pretty up in the air, though.
To make life easier, I'm going to be posting my ideas at http://artgraceguts.pbwiki.com/OracleXML and you can come and comment there, too.
