Battle For Phaedra Grand Retrospective: Intermission - A prototype
Here's the pre-game and week 1 of the war game in it's entirety
Feedback
I'm looking for feedback on how to archive my game, message by message. Clearly, this version of this is awful to read. Sorry to those without dark-mode readers.
I am interested in what would make this readable to those who are interested in checking it out. I am thinking:
- replicate the discord message formatting mostly
- in the full timeline, group sequential messages by channel
- add tabs for seeing the game from individuals channels/player perspectives
- add a day-by-day timeline
- include google updates
engineering-wise:
- switch from static-generation to dumping messages in sqllite and querying, probably
Elaboration
I was writing the week 1 retrospective earlier this week and ran into a writing problem. I could either provide a really high-level view of the war and miss out on a lot of details from player actions, or I can try to summarize the whole thing and almost just rewrite what is essentially a text game.
Some cataphract gms are opening up their discord servers once the game is done, but I don't think that's representative of what the game actually looks like. 1. No one is going to read all that and 2. The game happens chronologically, just looking at channels won't give you the feeling of experiencing it as it happened.
So, I cracked open my coding toolbox and downloaded my whole game from discord.
I've done massaging to get the messages cleaner but I need to do more work, but the formatting is awful.
I think this is the right track though (although, this definitely still struggles from the No One Is Going To Read All That problem. Once I take a break and deal with real life for awhile, I'll clean this up and follow up with my thoughts on week 1.
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