Devops & Deployments

About

This is a (yet-to-be-defined) game for Devops about Deployments ;)

The general idea is to create game focusing on current IT Operations challenges, or app development in general.

Origin

Credits to Michał Pawluk for original name, expressed around 2019-07-19 14:00 in our room at work.

Some suggestions were expressed over IRC @ freenode.

Project goal

• create usable assets to perform a game, such as:

  • player chart
  • campaign scenarios
  • game play - how to play descriptions
  • exploration, interaction, combat
  • game master guidelines

• focus on doing fast-paced and fun-focused game play for newbies, so don't make it super serious to the letter.

TODO

Technical

• switch to RST?

Non-technical

• maybe use GitHub Project or something like Trello?

• shorten name, maybe to d16d? Why d16d ? Well, looking at how Kubernetes was abbreviated - squeeze 8 chars in kubernetes word and you get k8s - it was quite obvious to squeeze Devops & Deployments down to d16d. Also D&D would confuse quite a lot of people, not to mention about legal infringements.

• read about RPG games because ihavenoideawhatamidoing.jpeg

  • define game system, suggestions:

    • d20
    • GURPS
    • table top games
    • Storytelling system
    • Talisman game

  • look around for already existing implementations that can be easily adjusted:

    • muds
    • web apps
    • discord bots
    • IRC bots, even the old ones in TCL
    • table top games, card games
    • dungeon_brawl This is is insanely awesome, I think it could be used in here!
    • dnd tl;dr
    • Unicorn Simulator super simple but quite easy to adjust

• choose license, probably Open Game License with Open Game Content

• guidelines:

  • add guidelines for players only
  • add guidelines for game master only if needed