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Thras, The Coral Kingdoms - Quests |
The Old Ye Bard
Prince
Registration Date: 2006.05.25
Posts: 3,351
Location: CHIM
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Thras, The Coral Kingdoms - Quests |
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Quest Development and Implementation
Quest Development (and implementation), will have a similar system to
that I/TOYB introduced to Skyrim, before I/TOYB left the position of
Co-Leader. That system was quite effecient, but this new one will
hopefully be more so. The system follows this structure:
- Quest is discussed as an idea in the Quest Development forum. This quest is marked with an [IDEA] tag in the thread name.
- Once the Quest outline has been decided upon, the
[IDEA] thread is moved to a archived forum, and renamed
[Quest.IDEA]*number*. The number is used for organisation of the
Thread, and used in the CS later on to organise quests. In the archived
thread, all the posts are deleted, and a summary of the thread and all
of the ideas mentioned in it is made (This helps the quest maker search
through all the ideas). A new thread is made for the quest in the Quest
Development forum, named [WIP/Quest]*name*, and in it a Quest Draft is
written up (Alternativly someone with better knowledge of making quests
can skip directly to this step first, before the ideas phase).
- Once the draft is given aproval, the [IDEA/Quest] thread is
found, for the quest in the archived section, and is changed to
[WIP/Quest]*number**name*. The entire thread is deleted, and the final
draft is editeded into the first post of the thread, along with any
notes about the quest that retain significance to it's development,
made by the writer, and by other members. The final version is then
written out, with full colour-coded dialouge, quest notation and other
relevant things.
- The final version is then once again editted into the
corresponding thread in archived section, like the draft, and the idea
threads were. It is named [Final/Quest]*number**name*. Now in the Quest
Claims forum a thread is made for the quest called
[Unclaimed/Quest]*number**name*, linked to the the archived thread.
When the quest is claimed the "Unclaimed" becomes "Claimed" in the
title.
- When the quest has been claimed, and finished in the CS, the
thread is deleted, and every important detail about the quest
implementation is put into a second post in the archived thread, which
is now renamed [REL/Quest]*number**name*. The reason why important
details about the quests implementaion is put into the thread, is so
that in Beta testing, the person fixing it can more easily see what the
proplem is, and how to fix it. If something is fixed with the quest,
that fix is noted into the archived thread, for the same reason as why
notes of the implementation are kept.
- The quest is then merged into the masterfile. If problems
arise with the quest in Beta testing, the person fixing it refers to
the archived thread on details of the quest. Any changes that are made
are noted in the archived thread.
Note: There will be a stickied thread, somewhere where the Quest name, number and state of completion/development is kept.
I will post more on how each quest passes through it's approval later
on, however the standards on what each quest needs to be like, will be
prone to change, as it wil most likely be revised, by me, the (future
and current) Heads of Development, and my Co-Leader.
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"Call it what you like"
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