Department:Writing

Getting started
For some general introduction how to get started, check out Contribute to the writing department

Current tasks
The easiest way to find out who's currently working on what in the writing department, is to check out the list of Current tasks. Active developers should add themselves and the tasks they're looking into or working on there.

Drafts
These are more or less completed, or at least, accepted proposals.

Setting

 * Main Setting - The State of the World
 * Neede: A more fleshed out background story from WWIII to present

Main Story Line

 * Ice age encroachment mechanics

Smaller stories and ideas

 * Story tool box
 * Ex-Soviet Baltic region story
 * The Mall

NPCs and Locations

 * Complete list of NPCs for PARPG.
 * NPCs in the Tech-Demo bar location, forum thread
 * NPC forum thread


 * Complete list of Locations for PARPG

The Player Character and Origin
This overlaps heavily with the Mechanics section. Character_generation_and_stats The general idea is to have "multiple" back stories, customized to some extent, for individual PCs. The may lead to "several" initial starting locations (than can be merged into the main "Trunk" of quests)

Writing dialogue for PARPG

 * Dialogue

Proposals

 * Radio Gaga - a Main Plot and storyline proposal (WIP)
 * Pre-war background story (incomplete)

Idea dump

 * Idea dump

Tools

 * NPC Template
 * Location Template

Dialogue creation
The current dialogue interface is to create specific YAML files containing dialogue mixed with simple gamestate interaction callbacks and conditionals. Currently, the interface is being extended to handle more complicated quests. A GUI editor has been proposed as well (see above)

Writing elements

 * Setting
 * Theme
 * Storyline
 * Locations
 * NPCs
 * Factions
 * Quests