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29 May
Posted by Yehuda Berlinger as Card Games, CCGs, Modern Board Games, RPGs
The Gamer Dome‘s new wiki is for tabletop game designers to post ideas and receive community feedback. The exact idea is a bit hard to follow, but the essence seems to be a place to create variants: scenarios, new cards, expansions, and so on.
Gaining access to the wiki is a bit of a pain: you need to register with Wikidot, and you also need to subscribe to the Gamer Dome blog feed, find the announcement post, and find a separate password at the end of it. But what confuses me most is the terms from the announcement: “Most of the projects will be community-driven, and I’ll have final say over inclusion and rules disputes; however, regular contributors have the opportunity to become admins themselves, and private development space may become available!”
That doesn’t sound like a community driven wiki to me. Perhaps I misunderstand the intention of this thing.
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Yehuda,
An excellent criticism. That text was leftover from an earlier iteration of the site, and was very confusing. I’ve changed the introduction to read:
“This wiki is a shared design space and homebrew archive for roleplaying games, board games, card games, and collectible card and miniature games. I’ve started us off with a few projects, but feel free to bring your own! Whether you’re a board and card game designer looking for iterations on your latest project or a dedicated DM looking to flesh out part of your campaign world more quickly than you could do it alone, this is the place. Just join up, make a new section for your project (FAQ will be up soon, including a step-by-step process for starting your own project), and start attracting people to it!”
As for the registration issue, the multiple steps are intentional (I wish I could do it without having you register for a wikidot account, but it’s not possible). I’m not trying to cast a wide net and build as large a community as possible, I’m trying to attract folks who are excited by the idea of a community design space, whether they’re designers or people who love to contribute to designs.
This link… http://thegamerdome.com/announcing-the-gamer-dome-wiki-community-game-design-project/ …goes straight to the post where I give the wiki password, and signing up for the feed is just something I hope people will do.
Thanks for the constructive feedback!
–Propagandroid
Not sure if you can put this in the original comment, since they require moderation, but:
I’ve also put the password directly on the Wiki join page. You helped me realize that it was one step too many.
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