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)