Happy to announce the creation of a website for the WeGoWarGo rules (Rules link added to the top menu)!
In my latest post of the WarGo 2023 recap, I warned that “it will almost certainly take longer than expected to finish up the rule book”. Immediately after, though, I realised that it would be good to first create a website for writing up and hosting the rules online, before compiling a printable PDF rule book.
Some of the advantages in this approach are the following:
- Higher motivation, by knowing that each rule written is immediately available to the public eye. The loneliness of writing a whole book before anyone takes a look can lead to procrastination. Thus, I’d better know that perhaps someone out there is following the progress.
- Higher writing performance, for the same reason as in 1. In my experience and character, creating bit-by-bit without sharing can lead to unnecessary perfectionism, and to writing dullness at the same time. The pressure of successively exposing bits of your writing can result to more concise, accurate and unambiguous expression, which is a must in a rule system.
- People (and devices) may find it easier to read, consult or search the rules from the online documentation, instead of scrolling through a digital or printed copy of the rules, however navigable the PDF might be.
So, the plan is to finish writing up the online documentation first. During this, further playtesting will lead to a more solid set of core rules. Reaching an acceptable quality of the rules and of their recording online, it will then be time to transcribe that online version to the first version of the PDF rule book.
Happy New Year,
Danis, the WarGo designer
Make WarGo, not war..!
