Collaborative tool for writing (board) game rules?
July 27, 2023 3:03 PM Subscribe
I’m looking for a good tool—or even just the name of this type of tool—that a collaborator and I can use to write the rules or a game we’re cooking up. Shared docs aren’t that great for this, as I’d like to be able to have separate version states for small sections of the document. A little more below….
I feel like I am just missing what to call this so I can effectively search for it. But basically I’d like the tool that allows sections and subsections with independent version tracking. So that, for fake example, if we originally decided that blue sheep explode on red squares, then changed that to yellow sheep exploding on red squares, changed some other stuff, THEN decided to revert the sheep rule back to the original, we could roll back only that part and not loose updates to other sections of the doc.
I feel like this must come up in creating software manuals perhaps? Specification docs? These ideas, as search terms, are nigh on useless in this quest. I’m missing something obvious, I suspect. Thank you!
I feel like I am just missing what to call this so I can effectively search for it. But basically I’d like the tool that allows sections and subsections with independent version tracking. So that, for fake example, if we originally decided that blue sheep explode on red squares, then changed that to yellow sheep exploding on red squares, changed some other stuff, THEN decided to revert the sheep rule back to the original, we could roll back only that part and not loose updates to other sections of the doc.
I feel like this must come up in creating software manuals perhaps? Specification docs? These ideas, as search terms, are nigh on useless in this quest. I’m missing something obvious, I suspect. Thank you!
Best answer: I think any wiki software that does versioning would be a decent tool for this. Atlassian Confluence would be an example. It should be free for just 2 people, and has versioning.
posted by mrgoldenbrown at 4:31 PM on July 27, 2023
posted by mrgoldenbrown at 4:31 PM on July 27, 2023
I hate to be that guy, but this is exactly what source code management software is for. Git is what you want, though it may be more than you need. It's not intuitive, but it's very well-documented and if used right can do all that you ask. But it's not easy to learn, so I'm not actually recommending it...just throwing it out there as a possibility, because management of text files by multiple authors working in multiple locations is what it was built for.
posted by lhauser at 5:14 PM on July 27, 2023
posted by lhauser at 5:14 PM on July 27, 2023
Response by poster: Thanks, all. I'm going to pursue the wiki course for now. I recognize the value of the gitsphere, but my brain isn't a good match.
posted by moonmoth at 9:21 PM on July 28, 2023
posted by moonmoth at 9:21 PM on July 28, 2023
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posted by ourobouros at 3:42 PM on July 27, 2023