"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.?
Very cool! It seems it's soon time for me to get back into superhero posting (and learning markdown!)
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DeleteIf I stick with the md approach then I'll put in templates so it shouldn't require too much learning!
This looks very promising! For the name of the project, it could make sense to name it after the fictional publisher/company of all the comics. Nowhere Comics could work to highlight the meta aspects (and shortens to NC, like DC and the first letter is one off from Marvel’s M). But that is a pretty on the nose example
ReplyDeleteThanks! I was also thinking of naming it after a fictional publisher :)
Deleteif you really wanted it be an homage to Marvel and DC that's "on the nose" how about Narwhal Comics?
DeleteIt took me longer than it should have to get the joke XP
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