worldforge/cyphesis — pull request #7 by sryan (2012-08-10 06:07:57+00:00)
Title: Add 'minimal' and 'mars' rulesets

The minimal ruleset is intended to be effectively an empty ruleset that will give any prospective world builder a non-confusing ruleset to bootstrap from. It is not intended to replace mason, as the defacto WF showcase world.

The mars ruleset, is intended to be an ongoing ruleset that will have the cumulative world creation tutorials applied to it, as well as any items that could need to be showcased.

I think having a complimentary ruleset to mason would achieve the following:
- provide a sci-fi flavour to wf, which can in turn attract more/different artists, world builders, etc who may not find the subject matter of mason to be interesting enough.
- as a different genre and focus, it will expose a wider set of the wf framework, and provide an additional frame of reference when considering features
- serve as a testbed and frame of reference when an effort to decouple the rules from the server/client