Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Web Inspiration

I hope to relaunch thefifthworld.com on December 21, along with making the first rough draft of the rules available for public playtesting. For the website, I want to set up a wiki/forum/blog site, with those three aspects operating seamlessly with one another. Thing is&mdfash;and I admit to this with some shame, as a professional web designer—I feel completely lost as to the direction to take it. What should it look like? Feel like?

So, I'll ask you. What would you like a Fifth World site to look like? Do you have any examples of sites you like that you think I should take inspiration from? Let me know soon; December 21 only seems far away if you don't have to start blocking out how the work will have to happen to meet it as a deadline!

4 comments:

terrapraeta said...

Hey!

Not sure if this will be helpful... or if you'll understand what am getting at or if its possible....

But it occurs to me that website *should* be laid out with the same theory that the game is... ie, it should lead you in, gradually as you are ready for it, taking you into deeper levels of fluency.........

Does that make any sense? Is there any way at all that such a thing could be accomplished?

Visually organic, fluid....

A trail to be followed rather than a hierarchy as most websites inevitably become....

Technically... I don;t even want to think about it ;-) But I don;t do that anymore, so I don't have to!

Jason Godesky said...

Thanks for the suggestion, terrapraeta, and while I love the principle, when we get down to specifics, that could really butt heads with making the site useable.

Last night, Giuli suggested a photo from underneath an overpass; then, we make it look like cave art drawn on it.

terrapraeta said...

I know... I was thinking that even as I wrote it... but Guili's idea... good visual;. I likes it ;-)

J

Josh W said...

I like the idea of organising it in trails and loops, that's why I can loose time so easily in wikipedia or tropewiki; it's easy to just keep following the trails because you know you can come back round to where you started.

Suggests quite an interesting form of teaching; layered understanding, starting with what interests you most, and then coming back to see what you saw before in a new light.