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* [[History of Wesnoth|The history of Wesnoth]] | * [[History of Wesnoth|The history of Wesnoth]] | ||
* [[Geography of Wesnoth|The geography of Wesnoth]] | * [[Geography of Wesnoth|The geography of Wesnoth]] | ||
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* [[Races|The races of creatures in Wesnoth]] | * [[Races|The races of creatures in Wesnoth]] | ||
* [[RaceDescriptions-backstory|(Eleazar on Orcs and Trolls)]] | * [[RaceDescriptions-backstory|(Eleazar on Orcs and Trolls)]] | ||
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* [[CharactersStorys|A list of hero descriptions]] | * [[CharactersStorys|A list of hero descriptions]] | ||
* [[Garardine_Dynasty|A detailed family tree of the Garardine Dynasty]] | * [[Garardine_Dynasty|A detailed family tree of the Garardine Dynasty]] | ||
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* [[SecretLore|Secret Lore]] | * [[SecretLore|Secret Lore]] | ||
Revision as of 12:32, 3 July 2009
Getting Started
General Information
Writers usually meet in the Writers' Forum. This is where you can go to discuss possible contributions to mainline Wesnoth writing (campaign dialog, unit descriptions, etc.), work on the Wesnoth Manual, collect reference information about the world of Wesnoth, world-build, and do other writerly things.
To be included in the Battle for Wesnoth, text must be released and available under the Gnu General Public License. Read this forum post by Jetryl and Wesnoth:Copyrights for more information on this.
Where Should I Start?
The Writers' Forum is fairly new. It's fairly easy to have a look around and see what's up.
Part of what writers are doing now is world building; keep in mind that this involves bringing together information from all over the Wesnoth universe. In other words, this forum does contain spoilers.
Reference Material
These materials may contain spoilers. This is necessary for writers, who may not want or need to play through a campaign to work over the dialog. If you don't want spoilers, you're in the wrong place.
Current Writing
The current text for Wesnoth can be accessed in various places. Most obviously, you see the text when you play the game. Less obviously, you can look through the scenario config files (found in your game data directory) to see the dialogue, and you can easily access unit descriptions through the Wesnoth Unit Tree.
There is also a current project to copy all campaign dialogue onto the wiki.
The world of Wesnoth
- The mainline campaigns of Wesnoth
- The history of Wesnoth
- The geography of Wesnoth
- The factions of Wesnoth
- The races of creatures in Wesnoth
- (Eleazar on Orcs and Trolls)
- A list of hero descriptions
- A detailed family tree of the Garardine Dynasty
- Secret Lore
Useful Resources: These are not tutorials!
You can't really have a tutorial on how to write. Everyone has a different process. However, here are some pages from the internet that you could glance at before taking up your pen.