[tcaudilllg]

Has anyone ever made a kind of wiki where you edited not text, but an actual game map? While working on a house editor for phpBB, I kinda realized that I'd made such a thing because guests can edit the house registered under the username "anonymous".

I think it could really work if instead of one small house, you had a big map where users could register and protect their tiles.

I remember Graal did something like this, except users couldn't choose where their houses were placed. I think this could be a successful and fun idea, especially with NPCs.

[Hajo]

In my old Wiki some people stored ASCII maps, that could be used in some roguelike projects. But those were still offline maps, the Wiki was not linked to a game engine. It was just a collaborative place to edit the maps (actually it was meant to be a Wiki about CRPG design, but the maps became part of it).

[tcaudilllg]

Well don't you think it'd be a good idea? I mean we could host it on here, couldn't we? On the other hand, I'm wondering what the point would be.

I'm not interested in creating a fad. But I do think that it would be more fun than Facebook. I miss Graal: it had a Zelda-like environment in which you could host your own house with tiles you made. Even your own dungeons. When Graal went PtP, it left a void that hasn't been filled since.

I was thinking we could use it to host project screenshots and such, like what Mandrake recommended a while back. Thing is, what is the utility of such a thing? I'm thinking about it and I can't see you guys justifying its use when the existing projects system is just as useful.

Maybe instead of replacing the existing system, we should just overhaul it with things like embedded video.

On the other hand, if the system was made flexible enough, it might become a viable RPG platform in its own right. This could help the scene grow.

[Hajo]

It's been a few years ... 6 or so, and I assume just no one thought of using the wiki this way.

If I remember right, your upcoming RPG is browser based, so I assume a wiki integrates quite nicely with the server part of the game, if they share a database table or such.

If your maps have many layers, I'd assume it's either difficult to edit them this way, or it's hard to find out how they look finally, depending how you represent the layers in the wiki.

But I'd say it's worth a try unless you want to develop an online map editor of other sorts.

[tcaudilllg]

I've already made an alpha in PHP. I didn't mean to use a wiki for it in as much as it's something of a wiki in its own right. All that's needed is an authentication system to control who can edit what. (although if you don't care about vandals then not even that is needed).