Game Night Scorekeeper: Previewing "Grove", "Catan The Dice Game", "Wingspan"

Screenshots of new score sheets in the "development" version of Game Night Scorekeeper:

 

Game Night Scorekeeper: First version with scoresheet setup for Jaipur

Although early-going, I think I've made enough progress to warrant an early "preview" release.  View the intro/demo video at the bottom of this blog entry.

I believe this TiddlyWiki instance already has "code" folk in the TW community might find of interest, and the early "architecture" gives a general idea about the vision I have for this thing.

Having only created a score sheet for the game called Jaipur, tabletop game players will find this early version of "Game Night Score Keeper" (GNSK for short) of limited use, unless you are a huge fan of Jaipur.  Keep an eye on this project, because score sheets for other board games will soon materialise!

The "Game Night Score Keeper" TiddlyWiki instance:

• the "production" version (as in, hopefully, bug-free and ready for general use)
• the "development" version (changes/additions in the works, not ready to be released)
• the "prototype" version (not bad, but very messy under the hood, thus hard to enhance)

Info about TiddlyWiki:

• Product page
• Community forum
• Wikipedia article

Info about Jaipur (a 2-player game):

• Board Game Geek (aka "BGG")
• The solo variant by Marek Kolcun
• A terrific playthrough video of the solo variant, by "One Player"

 Related intro/demo video:

GNSK: "Vision" document

GNSK = "Game Night Score Keeper", a TiddlyWiki project (link to the TW)

Change log

• 2026-03-13: first version

Goals

• Primary
• Using TW to help calculate the player scores for a tabletop game playthrough
• Secondary
• A list of tabletop games with information about those game titles, including
• score sheet template
• automa(s)
• A list of people in the gaming circle

Definitions

• tabletop game (or simply "game")
• can be a card game, a dice game or a board game
• can be a solo-player game, a 2-player game, or a multiplayer game
• can be cooperative or competitive, or involve cooperative competition
• can have one or more automas (i.e. artificial intelligence players) 

Data Domain

These are the things we want to keep track of in the TW instance:

• Game Titles
• A tiddler for each tabletop game (card game, dice game, board game, etc.)
• Game Players
• Game Automas
• These are "artificial intelligence" (aka "ai") players available for many games
• Human Players
• People in the "gaming circle"
• Game Playthroughs
• The occurrence of a specific game title played from start to finish by one or more people and one or more automas (if applicable to the game title)

GNSK: Redesign in the works

I've never been a fan of "Big Requirements Up Front".

There is no better way for a person to figure out what they need than to  just start building something and working with that.  One figures out very quickly where the problems lie and what the needs really are.

Although painful to redesign the approach, some of what has already been built is very much still useful/pertinent.  Regardless: one is getting much closer to the final product this way versus trying to figure it all out on paper before actually building anything.

You can follow progress via future blog entries here, via the "TW Architecture" tiddler in the "new" TW instance, and by comparing the "new" Game Night Score Keeper vs the now locked first version:

• "New Design" Game Night Score Keeper
• "First Version" Game Night Score Keeper