Communications Lab 5

CIS 300 Fall 2006

Thursday, September 28, 2006 

The Game Script

As discussed in class and the text, the Game Script (or Game Bible) is an internal document to be used a reference for the entire development team. It records all design decisions, is kept up-to-date, and should be able to answer any non-technical question about the game.

As a living reference document that has authorship shared by several people, the Game Script is especially well-suited to the Wiki format. For this class, every group will create a Wiki for their Game Script, and keep it updated throughout the semester.

You are free to use any Wiki you like. One that I like and is free and easy to use is wikidot.com. It supports all the standard features, has forum support (which you may want to use as a bug list or task list internally), allows file uploads, and good administrative controls. See a skeleton of a game script at munchkingame.wikidot.com.

Today’s tasks: 

1)      Choose a Wiki format and set it up with administrative control for all group members, and all CIS300 staff.

2)      Begin to create a framework for how information will be organized on your Wiki.

Follow up tasks: 

By Monday at midnight, have your Wiki fleshed out with all design information you have so far (which should be fairly substantial at this point). Submit a .txt file containing the URL of your wiki to Comm Lab 5.5 on CMS.