GoW Age Worksheets

[Simon_Bitdiddle]

I'm taking suggestions as to the sort of framework we'd need to help structure our new Ages as far as "storyline" and development. Here's my current list:
Administrative and Development
[*] A minor overview of the Age
[*] Is this a D'ni Age or a GoW written Age
[*] What facets of the engine are you planning on using/testing.

Ecological and Environmental
[*] What sort of overall environment is the Age set in
[*] What weather, if any.
[*] Please provide data on any animals or plant life.
[*] If the Age has seasons, please describe the duration and events during the seasons.
[*] If there are relevant water or geological data, please provide them.

Guild of Maintainers/Cartographer Requests
[*] If there are specific areas which may need more testing than others, please specify them here.
[*] Landmarks or other features which may help the Cartographers orient themselves.
[*] How many notebooks or other flavortext items are there in the Age.
[*] What machinery is in the Age and the function.

Background Information
[*] Please write an IC story of the development of the Age.
[*] What IC reference materials were used.
[*] If this is a group project, please outline the contributions of each member (ICly and OOCly)
[*] If there are structures or machinery within the Age, please denote the source and function.

[Nek'rahm]

Nice idea... and it helps develop Ages in a well thought out manner

Only thing is, we're assuming that the GoW is writing ALL of these Ages, not the D'ni.

If the D'ni wrote the Age, you're treading too close to Cyan's IP... so...

*waits for other comments*

[Chacal]

Actually we're hoping Cyan won't be too close-minded about that. GD said something once, but things change.
It is my intention, if I ever start modeling, to send some D'ni ages to Cyan, If they reject them, so be it.

[Aloys]

They have agreed on D'ni Ages in the past, but that's all on CC. And I think that while they don't really like the risk of D'ni Ages messing with their storyline or the 'canon' aspect of the game, they don't care too much as long as it stays in CC. Live will obviously be a different thing and clearly D'ni Ages will be a no-no. But we're not there yet.

Nek'rahm points out something important though, the whole Guild of Writers is supposed to be an IC thing. And as such we are not supposed to write D'ni Ages. So anything that comes from the GoW should be explorer-written.

[Chacal]

See my 4 models.