Well-Actually War Trall Acky Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 I would like to create a centralized source for all articles ever written for BoA (something like the Designer's Forum at the Lycuem, just for BoA. The list of Articles on Spiderweb isn't quite complete. I intend to host it on my site. Here are the Articles that I have 1. It's all about size by Jeff Vogel 2. What about Shareware fees by Jeff Vogel 3. Common Mistakes by Jeff Vogel 4. You shall not pass! by Jeff Vogel 5. Tips for Creating Challenging Monsters by Drakefyre 6. Why? by Drakefyre 7. Player vs. Party by The Creator 8. Choices and Linearity by Drakefyre 9. Creating Compelling Characters by The Creator 10. Basic But Vital Tips by Terror's Martyr 11. Bob By The Creator 12. Building the Basic Quest by Jeff Vogel 13. Useful Dialogue Tips By Isaac 14. The Responsive World By Drakefyre 15. Designing a Quality Town By Drakefyre 16. Good Bad Guys By The Creator 17. Hey! What did you do that for? By The Creator 18. A General Item Overview By Drakefyre 19. Don't Draw Focus! By The Creator 20. Filler By The Creator 21. Follow the Yellow Brick Road By Terror's Martyr 22. High Level Scenarios By Kelandon 23. Cutscenes: A Tutorial by Kelandon 24. Your First Scenario by The Creator 25. Building Blocks for a Scenario by The Creator 26. Ten Dread Diseases of Scenarios by The Creator 27. Playing Scenario's Critically by Terrors Martyr 28. Karma, Dharma and Somesuch By Terror's Martyr 29. Creating An Atmosphere by Vent 30. The Challenge Pits By Stareye (*i) 31. Rollick by Thuryl 32. Dice, Random Numbers, and Statistics for BoA Designers by Stareye (*i) 33. Article: Basic Scripting For Complete Beginners by Kelandon I'm posting this because it is quite possible that I am missing some. So please, if you are aware of any articles that I am missing, please post a link of send it or send me a copy via Email at ackrovan@gmail.com The Great Archon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Hey, thanks for doing this. I don't know if you need to host the ones that are already hosted on spiderwebsoftware.com, but it's great that you're hosting the ones that are buried in the forums here ('Rollick', 'Karma', 'Playing Critically', etc.), especially as they could be purged some time in the future. Offhand, I can't think of any that you're missing. Maybe check the Shadow Vale forums as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 There were a block of BoA articles bumped in January 2008 to keep them from being purged when we ran out of space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Are these all relevant? I just notice that the first twenty articles, with one or two exceptions, were either written by Jeff, or by people who have only designed for BoE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Many of the old articles are more generally about game design, as I recall, and so should likely remain relevant. However, I can't speak for all of them; they should likely be checked through (5 and 15 in particular look suspect). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Acky Posted June 9, 2009 Author Share Posted June 9, 2009 Most of the earlier articles, like Neimand said, cover common sense, which is both BoE and BoA rather than just BoA. Particularly the ones about plot, since it obviously doesn't matter the game a story is told in. The later ones, on the other hand, talk more about designing and the actual creation of a scenario, which is equally useful. After rereading 5 and 15, I can conclude that they are still useful. 15 in particular, since it says things that are again, common sense, such as questioning whether or not a town has anything to do with the plot, or if it is just for the hell of it. I've read all of these. Trust me; their all worth reading. As for Jeff's articles, I would suppose they are only as useful as one's opinion of Jeff is. The Great Archon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Ephesos Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Originally Posted By: Squee and Beautiful Dumb Smile Are these all relevant? I just notice that the first twenty articles, with one or two exceptions, were either written by Jeff, or by people who have only designed for BoE. To those of us who actually design for BoA, the lessons are applicable, yes. Kudos for the service to the community, Ackrovan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Acky Posted June 11, 2009 Author Share Posted June 11, 2009 The BoA Article Archives It's rough and dirty, but it works. I need to focus my attention to something else for a while, so I figured it was best to get something done before so. Feedback, comments, snicker's, praise, etc are welcomed. The Great Archon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 Maybe having them as downloadable text files, or a separate page for each article, might be better than a whacking great lump of text? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Celtic Minstrel Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 At least make the items on the list link to the relevant article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Acky Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 Originally Posted By: Skeeter Maybe having them as downloadable text files, or a separate page for each article, might be better than a whacking great lump of text? Excellent idea. I had the exact thing in mind. Now as soon as I figure out how, I will do just that. The Great Archon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Erm, you upload each file to your webspace as a .txt file, and then link to each file. Edit: Or, since you already know how to make web pages, create a blank one for each article, stick the article in, and then link from the main page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Acky Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 http://thespireofarchon.webs.com/articlearchives.htm And suggestions or such are welcomed. The Great Archon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 Looks much better. Eventually if you feel like taking the time you might turn the raw text documents into HTML pages so that they can look a little nicer and have things like navigation links, but it's perfectly functional as it now stands. One nit-picky point though: Some of the article links are getting up onto the previous link's line. Glancing at your source code shows that each of these is preceded by a peculiar bunch of entities; I'm not sure how that happened or what you might have been trying to do there. Anyway, an ordered list (<ol>) might suit your purposes well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Celtic Minstrel Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 Although there are no meta tags to indicate it, I suspect he has used some kind of GUI HTML editor to create the page. Comments like "<!-- ParagraphStart 399201637 -->" are rather suspicious – I doubt a human would include them. There are other (unnoticeable without checking the source) things that are silly, for example stuff like "<div class='xxx'><p>" instead of just <p class='xxx'>". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Acky Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 I'm probably out of my league here. All I did was press Space until the link was sent down one line of text (I have no idea if that's proper terminology). This was because pressing enter sends it down *two* lines of text. In retrospect, it probably would look better if I just press enter. Excuse me a moment. The Great Archon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Acky Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 Done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Celtic Minstrel Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 Why don't you format it as a list? Presumably there's a way to do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Acky Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 I'll look into that. But I don't believe it's a feature that the Freewebs website builder has. Also, would it be all right if this would be added to the forum header? (not this one, the Editor forums header) It'd be more useful if a new designer could see if right off the bat rather than have it on an obscure website. The Great Archon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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