As I've told before, I have recently not been working with the new Evil Priests to which I refer as Triad of Darkness. Triad of Darkness will be the new name of the guild once it is ready, eventually. If you are curious to know why, it gets its name from three gods which are essential to the guild that are Draen-Dalar, Burglefloogah and Heliana. The religion is commonly called as triadism.

I suppose you might be willing to learn more, but this blog entry is more about documentation than about the thematic content of the guild. For those interested in themes, you can find the webpage address of my wiz page on my character's finger information. You can visit the Triad page there.

So the question is what kind of documentation the wizards have for this kind of projects that take a quite long period of time to complete? To be honest, you would be surprised how many wizards actually have very condensed plans when they begin to work with something. Some people like to come up with ideas on the fly. LPC is quite flexible language so this kind of approach is doable, if you can just keep in mind that everything that you have stays cohesive and comes together. I'm not one of those people though. I need to have documentation because without notes I couldn't find my way to the grocery store. Alright, it's a slight exaggeration, but you get the idea.

Concerning Triad of Darkness project, I have quite vast plans and a few files that I use to keep myself up to date. Actually I have separated my coding plans in 8 files and I have an external Wikipedia set up for Triad related lore. These 8 files contain general information such as list of skills and spells, their effects, the guild systems and the specific technical details how they should work and so on. These files do not contain any specific code or plans how I'm going to code some specific file. These are the "grand plans" and mainly reminding me how the different things are linked to one another.

Screenshot of my Triad documents on Crimson Editor

I actually do have a software which maintains my notes. In this software I add pretty much everything I need to remember so that I can get back to them later when I have time. This way I don't often need to remember what I was coding the last time or what the problem was. I just look at my notes.

Screenshot of my coding notes

Maybe this post has enlightened you how my mind works. Did you come to the same conclusion? That's right, it doesn't