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HeatherWiki is a collection of mods, help pages, and a system of organization for using MediaWiki in the create of game design documents.

Game design docs are large manuals that contain all the design information about your game. It contains everything about your game and can be consulted by your entire team throughout the design and development processes. Ideally, it should be so complete that your designers could all be hit by a meteor and your game would still go on without them (after a period of mourning since a big chunk of your team was just killed!)

MediaWiki is a wiki interface that can store your design document. It has many features that make it superior to a printed manual, google doc, word doc, several word docs, notes written on napkins, etc.

HeatherWiki expands and takes advantage of those features to create a cohesive system of organization. It sets standards for how to organize your document have complete control over it. Your team can navigate through your design document through a web interface. It can be altered, reorganized, and rebuilt on command.

• HeatherWiki:Features - list of features of MediaWiki and HeatherWiki
• Category:Help - help pages for game teams using MediaWiki game teams
• Follow HeatherWiki on twitter

HeatherWiki setup

• HeatherWiki:Starting point
• HeatherWiki:Setup
• HeatherWiki:Install
• HeatherWiki:Using the index
• HeatherWiki: Team startup

Wiki is currently holding documentation for the game Shelf Life (abbreviated FG from the working title) for 3D Game Programming at RIT.

All information related to FG on this wiki is exclusively owned by Kelley Piering, Michael Ey, Joe Pietruch, and Heather Arbiter. None of it may be used in any way for anything. Nor can be it copied, modified, adapted, stolen, borrowed, sold or distributed.

The documentation for FG is currently used as an example of HeatherWiki in action. Check out the Document index and how it becomes the Design document.

FG stuff

• Documentation for FG
• One sheet
• Schedule
• college papers

Other examples

HeatherWiki 2

Version 2 of HeatherWiki holding later phase documentation and designs for Shelf Life

HeatherWiki 1

Version 1 of HeatherWiki holding most project documentation and designs for Revenge of the Duzzles

Sierra

Used by students Bradley R. Blankenship and Karl Schmitt for Professor Jacobs's Interactive Narrative class

Tango

Used by students Mike Dapiran and Eric Baker for Professor Jacobs's Interactive Narrative class

Capstone

RIT Capstone Project, The Trip