Campaign Design How-To
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Campaign Design How-To
This is a HOWTO on writing campaigns that I'm developing by writing The Hammer Of Thursagan. Though THoT is my first all-original campaign, this draws on my experience co-authoring one, editing five other campaigns for mainline, and co-maintaining a sixth.
Feedback and suggestions welcome. It's in asciidoc format.
Feedback and suggestions welcome. It's in asciidoc format.
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I basically agree.
Oh, and s/warriers/warriors/.
Oh, and s/warriers/warriors/.
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And I hate stupid people.
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Thanks, Turin.
Thanks, Turin. As it happens, I studied your campaigns with particular care.
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New version of the howto
There's a new version, 1.1, now available at http://www.catb.org/~esr/wesnoth/campai ... howto.html.
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1 more thing i think is very important, but often forgotten, is to have small maps. large maps, while giving more options for grand strategy or sumthing, get frustrating shortly. small maps have better feel to them. hope you add something like that. its very tempting to overextend the size sometimes.
Small annoyance: Under 'Army building' you refer to Equal-Cost-Equal-Power as ECEPR when you define the abbreviation, but later when you use it again (2 paragraphs down or something) you refer to ECEP.
This made me need to use my brain so that spelling it out would have been quicker anyway.
/tsr - nitpicking on an otherwise great howto
This made me need to use my brain so that spelling it out would have been quicker anyway.
/tsr - nitpicking on an otherwise great howto
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New section on map sizes
Excellent idea. I'm working on a whole new section on this topic.Syntax_Error wrote:1 more thing i think is very important, but often forgotten, is to have small maps. large maps, while giving more options for grand strategy or sumthing, get frustrating shortly. small maps have better feel to them
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Re: New version of the howto
A new version, 1.2, is now available at http://www.catb.org/~esr/wesnoth/campai ... howto.html. It adds substantial material on the challenges of map size.
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That thought had already occurred to me.
That thought has already occurred to me. What I'll probably do when I get time is merge the best bits from the existing campaign tutorial (like, the developer quotes) into mine, then replace the old one,Boucman wrote:esr, this would probably fit nicely in the wiki... maybe replacing the old campaign writing tutorial...
But right now I think bug-stomping and getting my campaign in shape for 1.4 are more important.