Forum:Technical Articles

Hi all, I'm DiGiT from Age of Kings Heaven. As you may know, AoKH is very focused on the scenario design element of the game, and I've been involved in the past, mostly by writing AOK Trigger Studio. As the community at AoKH delved deeper into the game's mechanics, we started heavily modifying the game's data, producing such things as new, custom units and even "Total Conversion Modpacks" which essentially transform the game into a new setting. To support this effort, I hosted GenieWiki on my personal website to be a one-stop reference for this advanced scenario design and modification of the game's data. (It's called GenieWiki because its content applies to the three games which use the Genie Engine: Age of Empires, Age of Empires II, and Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds.)

Unfortunately, I haven't had the time lately to be very involved in the community and want to focus any extra time I do have on maintaining AOK Trigger Studio instead of worrying about GenieWiki. So, if possible, I'd like to move the useful content of GenieWiki to this active wiki, where it can be better cared for.

My only concern is that this wiki does not seem to have much interest in scenario design, and I'm not sure if such technical information as GenieWiki contains would be welcome here. Would it break the focus of this wiki, or would it be a benefit to expand its horizons? Of course, the choice is yours. :)

(You also may be concerned that GenieWiki includes information from Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, but in reality it doesn't have much SW:GB content.)

Please let me know your thoughts, it would help me out greatly if you could host the content and allow me to shut down GenieWiki!

-Dgtombs 16:18, June 17, 2010 (UTC)