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Last author: Aradon Templar
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Cooperative worker placement game
A game in which players work together to utilize resources to produce a game (or some other collaborative product).

Game or player playing antagonist role provides deadlines which players must meet.
Various resource nodes, challenge is in optimizing their use rather than claiming what you want first.

Possible mechanic is to make resource nodes give one less resource when they change hands. Players will naturally want to move from node to node to acquire the resources they need, but this discourages that. To counterbalance and thereby avoid the penalty, players may acquire communication resources, which may be expended instead.

Method in place (cards, or nodes) which allow transference of resources from one player to another.

Staff meeting node, which uses the resource placement to instead provide some directional bonus (direction ability-cards, shifting of resources, alteration of deadlines).

Periodic investor review gives money based on progress/appearance, for purchasing new nodes/staff/assets. Concern that this leads to snowballing success or hard-to-catch-up failure. Balance should be that a good investor review requires long-term sacrifices to achieve.

Possible resources:
- Design
- Coding
- Polish
- Graphics & Sound
- Marketing
- Money
- Communication

Possible direction cards or projects:
- Custom tools: takes coding, grants communication each round
- Shifted resources: transfer some resources from one player to another
- Various 'free resources' options

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2011-04-30 [Aradon Templar]: Fixd, I think.

2011-04-30 [hanhepi]: you hadn't, but i just did. i think that made it make sense, but i'd get the Grammar Pros to double check.

2011-04-30 [Aradon Templar]: Oh, I missed the missing word. Yeah, fixed now.

2011-05-01 [Linderel]: Fixed a couple of spelling errors and added a missing apostrophe.

2011-05-01 [Aradon Templar]: Thanks. Was definitely multitasking yesterday :P Also, the title won't stay the same. The header at the top was just an example/placeholder. Call it whatever you guys want to link to, and can just change the header/link.

2011-05-01 [windowframe]: As long as the name explains what's on the page, it doesn't matter what it's called. :)

2011-05-01 [Aradon Templar]: Odd fact that may cause problems: A page using a template will be unable to apply that template to any text following a colon in a line. So, even if I have a template applied to a page, if I say "Therefore, the following is possible: this part of the text will be immune to template replacements," that part of the text will be immune to template replacements. I can only imagine this is to prevent recursive templating by directing two template pages towards each other.

2011-05-01 [Aradon Templar]: Disregard that, it is blatantly untrue. I will investigate further :P

2011-05-01 [Aradon Templar]: All I can tell is that if you apply a template to a template page, when that page is used as a template, the text in the edit box (before any template changes are made) is what will be used to template the other page. For example, if I have a page that says one:two, but apply a template that changes all ones to tens instead, that template page will display ten:two, but it will still function as a template like it said one:two, so any page using it as a template will get a one:two replacement instead of ten:two. This is the interaction between recursive template pages that redirect to each other :P

2011-05-01 [hanhepi]: ok, i may have to unwatch the page, because now i'm not nearly as certain i understand the template business after all.

2011-05-01 [windowframe]: Sorry. Templar and I started talking about what happens if you set two wikis to use the other as a template (in the hope that Elftown would do something interesting). Which it... didn't really. :P It just got rather confusing.

2011-05-01 [hanhepi]: it was like he divided by zero! it was crazy! just, just dumb that down a whole lot if it's going on the wiki somewhere. a whole lot. otherwise people like me will get to that section and think "no, i don't think i should try this, it's going to break something, like my sanity."

2011-05-01 [windowframe]: X) No, I think we should just leave that stuff off. :P

2011-05-02 [Aradon Templar]: Nah, if there was an easy rule for how it works and was a common situation, then I'd put it on, but as it is, people who try this kind of craziness are probably prepared to figure it out on their own anyways.

2012-03-07 [iippo]: What is the brown?

2012-03-07 [Aradon Templar]: Aha, caught one of you! Now only four mystery watchers remain :P It was a picture I was working on. There were nice clouds in the sky, and I wanted to get them reflecting in the water, but the water was all, "noooo I'm going to be all wobbly instead of smooth." So the brown is the clouds in the sky.

2012-03-12 [iippo]: I wasa mystery one? :P You should always assume iippo.

2012-03-12 [Aradon Templar]: Yeah, I was fairly certain you were one of them. I also suspect several Council Peoples.

2012-11-12 [Aradon Templar]: Just faffing with formatting better, seeing if I markedly like other arrangements better than the one the author chose >.>

2012-11-12 [windowframe]: I faffed too, just to show another option <_<

2013-10-18 [windowframe]: holy shit. :o

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