GNSK Updates

• New feature: Set a game score-sheet to "view-only"
• Wingspan score-sheet updates
• New: Automa "Face-down bird cards" score
• New: Automa scores for the different difficulty levels

Set a game score-sheet to "view-only"

Once the score for a game has been recorded, we need a way to protect that record (because it is too easy to unintentionally change the score-sheet when no changes are desired).

I've added a Set as "view-only" check box which, when checked, sets the entire score-sheet to "not editable".  If any editing needs to be done to the score-sheet, unset the "view-only" check box.

Wingspan Automa "Face-down bird cards" score

I had forgotten to add a field for the number of face-down bird cards gained by the Automa during a game.

To not over-complicate things, I replaced the Automa's grayed-out area for "Tucked Cards" with an edit field.   For the Automa, "Tucked Cards" = "Face-down bird cards.  (Just enter the number of the Automa's face-down cards.)

Wingspan Automa scores for the different difficulty levels

When playing the Automa, we can choose how much of a challenge we want the Automa to present: easy, medium, or hard (or, as per the game publisher: "eaglet", "eagle", or "eagle-eyed eagle".)

To not over-complicate things, I decided to not bother with an interface to indicate the level of challenge chosen.  Instead, the score-sheet automatically shows the scores for each level of challenge:

• The number of tucked cards multiplied by 3 for "Eaglet"
• The number of tucked cards multiplied by 4 for "Eagle"
• The number of tucked cards multiplied by 5 for "EE Eagle" (i.e. "Eagle-Eyed Eagle").

Score-sheet for a Wingspan game I played yesterday:

Example score sheet from recent "Grove" game session

Although calculating the score in one's head doesn't involve a huge challenge, I find that I'm prone to making silly mistakes.  More than anything, I really don't feel like doing the mental math gymnastics immediately after having worked the old sponge playing the game.

I find it pretty nice to see all of the info together as a "record" of the game.

GNSK Update

• Game Sessions update: added a "Description/Notes" field
• "Grove" score sheet update: added "How fruitful was the harvest?" info below the sheet

Game Sessions "Description/Notes"

Value displayed on the "Game Sessions" tiddler, and editable via a field below a game session's score sheet.

"Grove" score sheet update

Game Night Score-Keeper

The questions:

How could I use TiddlyWiki for tallying scores for board games ?

AND

Once I have such a TiddlyWiki instance, what else could I use it for ?

For Christmas, my kiddo bought me a copy of the Wingspan board game.

What a beautiful game.  The production quality rocks.

However, if you have poor eyesight...

• Many of the cards have black text on a brown background, and the text is hard to read.  (I can get by, though, with a magnifying glass that has a built-in light.)
• The score sheets (the row headers) are almost impossible to read because of lack of contrast: gray text on a light-purple background.

End-of-game scoring is also a bit of a pain.  Some of the scoring items can involve significant calculations that won't fit on the small score sheets, and can be prone to mistakes when done in one's head.  Although the calculations might be a fun "brain-age" kind of exercise otherwise, I do not enjoy doing math as part of a game session.

End-of-game scoring being the biggest problem to solve, it did not take long for me to think: "this sounds like a fun TiddlyWiki project.

And if I'm going to build something with TW for Wingspan, why not build something that can help with end-of-game scoring for all of my games?

And why not use such a TW instance for tracking history and statistics of all played games ?

And why not use such a TW instance as an inventory tool for all the games I own?

I'll be posting project-related info and updates here.

Any time you want to play with the TW instance, you can access the work-in-progress with this link:

Game Night Score Keeper