Hello, reader of the AE forum.
While trying to learn the scripting on CYS for my games (and partly to archive notable content for the Lists article), I have read every single thread on the this forum (it took two days, there were 600+ threads). Now, I've made my notes, but it seems like a missed opportunity to not combine all the knowledge the forum has buried in it into something wield-able by storygame authors of all skill levels (who don't have two days to burn).
I believe a storygame (or multiple, or articles + examples embedded in a dedicated storygame - depending on how the plan is to structure content) would be a great resource on scripting, to help people of all skill levels either learn or improve their craft on CYS.
I started on a storygame for this purpose, but a few minutes in I realized that me working solo on this was a really dumb solution to the larger question of how to make scripting accessible. The site works on an open source collaborative approach, and me trying to build something by my self would be arduous for me, limit the quality of the work, and in general would be contrary to the collaborative spirit that makes CYS what it is.
The intention of this post is to take the opportunity to get a collaborative team working on the Field Manual Project. I've outlined what I think a good field manual would contain in the first replies to this post, please only reply to this post so I may edit those .
The goal is to update the content in the articles already on the site (a few are showing their age), and merge that with content from the forum (my highlights, not yet ordered).
I'd be happy to add co-authors to the work, or if we'd rather make it official, I don't mind one of the mods hosting this on their account. The only ask from my side is that any volunteer have published at least one story using Advanced Editor features.
For timelines, I'll be contributing my spare time across the coming weeks for this, so I'm not expecting this to be finished for at least a month or so.
Also, to be clear, I am only the archivist here, my only contribution is proposing this idea and adding to it in the coming days. The credit to all the good content goes out to the generous and wise people who have been on this forum across the last 16 years, including: Alexp, Solostrike, JJJ-thebanisher, Havacoman, October, tsmpaul, madglee, Zikara, SindriV, Killa_Robot, BradinDvorak, BerkaZerka, nmelssx, fergie14233, Tacocat and many others (vaguely in order of appearance on the Advanced Editor forum)(my apologies if I've accidentally missed someone)