"The Superhero Project" is a pet project I proposed several years ago and most of my blog posts with the superheroes tag were created with this project in mind. I have finally started developing it and theoretically it could be deployed as an actual public website relatively soon.
The idea is for an SCP-style open source, creative commons, collaborative worldbuilding project, but specifically for a shared Superhero universe similar to Marvel or DC, while also perhaps being more Weird & Wonderful ;).
I have made the code open source and someone with software engineering skills should theoretically be able to create a local build, as I am currently developing with, but also keep in mind it's very much still WIP.
Here is the Superhero Project GitHub Repo.
Also embedded in this blog post is a video demo of the local build.
EDIT: I originally uploaded the video directly to blogger but they downscale it to 360p so I've uploaded it unlisted to youtube instead.
Even technical things aside, a lot of this is WIP. Here are some questions I have, I'm sure I have many more...
- What should the project be called?
- Is there anyone with frontend and graphic design experience especially who would like to contribute?
- How do I effectively convey the wiki-style of the project i.e. the meta vs. in-universe concepts?
- Are the Type fields sufficient? Should it be more constrained or less constrained?
- Does Markdown for the Content make sense?
- Any other general questions, thoughts, comments, concerns, etc.?
