Door Game Meta Topic

[Donald_Petersen]

I just found (rediscovered) the actual GM Toolkit Development thread where some progess was being made, particularly in the last dozen posts or so. I wonder if we could see if @gwwar and @awjt (is he still around? That old thread has him identified by some @anon34812172 ID for some reason) and @bizmail_public and @Felipe_Budinich maybe want to help us get back into figuring out a Discourse plug-in again. Discbot sure has proved handy (thanks once again to @gwwar!), and it seems to me (a guy who knows pretty much nothing at all about coding) that @awjt had zeroed in on an excellent way forward right here:

@anon34812172

Let’s just get a JSON spec together of the elements needed. Writing a parser for Google doc <-> JSON is tedious but not too hard, and just abandon it later if we want to spend time writing a web page, or Disqus plugin.

Here’s my idea. A player has to have an account on the bbs, and enroll in the game. Those players who are enrolled in the game will see a fifth item next to the 4 choices in the upper right. Give it a small icon of the outline of a d20 or something.

And keep it simple. When you click that item, only 1 thing comes up. A form with a title of the game, a subtitle indicating which round, and the form elements the player has to fill in and click OK.

This form can use the JSON format we already created to either post to another webpage somewhere, or dump all of its shit into a google doc. Or whatever we want. But that’s an in-BBS UI in its simple simon simplest functional implementation.