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designer_workshop:review_board_criteria [2013/08/27 19:10] Kjeld [Game Play] |
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- | ====== Review | + | ====== Review |
- | Board review is intended both to help designers produce better boards and to maintain a high level of quality for live maps on WarGear. However, when it comes down to it, board review is a matter of judgment. This page is meant to help all parties, both reviewers and board designers, by providing a transparent set of guidelines that seek to better define what is and is not expected of a board in order to meet WarGear standards. | + | Board review is intended both to help designers produce better boards and to maintain a high level of quality for live boards |
===== Mission ===== | ===== Mission ===== | ||
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The Review Board' | The Review Board' | ||
- | ===== Standards | + | ===== Standard Criteria and Guidelines |
- | WarGear Standards use the IEEE style guide for standards. | + | WarGear Standards use the IEEE style guide for standards. |
==== General Guidelines ==== | ==== General Guidelines ==== | ||
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==== Graphics ==== | ==== Graphics ==== | ||
- | * No ambiguous boundaries or continents. | + | * Boards must not have any ambiguous boundaries or continents. |
* Borders and Continents should be clear from the board image. | * Borders and Continents should be clear from the board image. | ||
* Continents should have a mini-map, or continent values on the map itself, or a simple mnemonic, or some other easy way to find or remember the members and value of all continents without having to go back to the map description or wiki page. | * Continents should have a mini-map, or continent values on the map itself, or a simple mnemonic, or some other easy way to find or remember the members and value of all continents without having to go back to the map description or wiki page. | ||
* Boards should be dual layer. | * Boards should be dual layer. | ||
* Designers are welcome to use single layer and circle mode for personal use, development, | * Designers are welcome to use single layer and circle mode for personal use, development, | ||
- | * Single Layer boards | + | * Single Layer boards |
* Single Layer boards should avoid blank space and large uniform fields of color. | * Single Layer boards should avoid blank space and large uniform fields of color. | ||
* Boards should have a set of custom card images. | * Boards should have a set of custom card images. | ||
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* Make eliminations more valuable - card capture on, increase elimination bonus. | * Make eliminations more valuable - card capture on, increase elimination bonus. | ||
* Increase bottlenecks | * Increase bottlenecks | ||
- | * Create ' | + | * Create ' |
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==== Other ==== | ==== Other ==== | ||
* Every board should have a wiki page created for it on the [[proving_grounds: | * Every board should have a wiki page created for it on the [[proving_grounds: | ||
===== Protocols ===== | ===== Protocols ===== | ||
- | * Except for 2-player or 3-player boards, review games should always include at least 3 members of the Review Board. | + | * Except for 2-player or 3-player boards, review games should always include at least 3 members of the Review Board. |
* No board shall pass review until the review game is complete. | * No board shall pass review until the review game is complete. | ||
* Other members of the Review Board not participating in the game should feel welcome to comment, and the members in the game should take their comments into consideration. | * Other members of the Review Board not participating in the game should feel welcome to comment, and the members in the game should take their comments into consideration. | ||
- | * Only the members of the Review Board who are playing the review game should be responsible for deciding, by consensus, whether to pass or fail the board. If consensus is not possible, other members of the Review Board should be consulted, and if necessary a vote taken. The last member of the review board standing in the review game should be responsible for passing or failing the board, as decided. | + | * Only the members of the Review Board who are playing the review game should be responsible for deciding, by consensus, whether to pass or fail the board. If consensus is not possible, other members of the Review Board should be consulted, and if necessary a vote taken. The last member of the review board standing in the review game should be responsible for passing or failing the board, as decided |
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