TTTTRPG

Timeline Tree of Tabletop Role-Playing Games, celebrating more than 40 years of game design innovations

Over 1000 ttrpg and 800 game designs, webbed through 1500 links. From 1974 to 2019.

• Download the PDF poster (4 Mo)

How to...

... Do it myself

• Download the latest source code. It should be easy to understand, but you can read more explanations of the structure of the source code.
• Download the zip package of icon pictures. Unpack the pictures in a folder C:/gv/ on your computer.
• Install and set up Graphviz and Textpad++.
• Compile the code. The details are in the header of the source code ("Parameters"). It will produce a ps file.
• With Adobe Distiller, turn the ps file into a PDF file. If you successfully used a free and open-source software to do that job, please let me know.

... Contribute

• Send me corrections or suggestions at pascal.umontreal [at] gmail.com

  • It can take time before I answer you.
  • If you don't want to be cited as contributor, add "no citation" in your email.

• Help me to compile the dot source code graph to produce a more dense graph.

• Improve Wikidata items related to tabletop RPG.

  • I documented some guidelines here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Board_Games (contact me at Pmartinolli if you need help). I already made 7000 edits on TTRPGs so I have a little understanding of what is what there.
  • Why Wikidata ? I try to mirror as much of the informations as I can on Wikidata to benefit from the database tools and from the community of contributors. Click here to produce a graph of the citation practices in TTRPG.

• Export the data into GEPHY. Why ? 1) I want to try it ; 2) I think the database structure of GEPHY can help managing all the informations ; 3) It's open source.

... Start my own project

• Have a look on this simple template of the graph, and on the rendering.
• Gather your friends (or your students) and decide some teamwork methods. Each of you create an account on GitHub.
• Deposit your files on GitHub.
• Go!
• Don't forget to be a gentleman/gentlelady of the open access : cite me and Todd Lehman.

... Thank me

• Tweet it @pascaliensis.
• Comment it on your social media.
• Cite me it your academic work :

Martinolli, Pascal. 2019. « TTTTRPG: Timeline Tree of Tabletop Role-Playing Games, celebrating more than 40 years of game design innovations. » Zenodo. Dataset and dot language code. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3492119

• Print it and display it in your school, library, exhibition, etc.
• Send me an email : pascal.umontreal [at] gmail.com

Acknowledgements

The source code is an adaptation of the code created by Todd Lehman for his “TeX Family Tree”.

The data sources of this work are numerous. You can have a look of the references used to select, check and analyze the TTRPGs.

This timeline is a part of the « On the Shoulders of Dwarves »(fr) set of projects .

This content is CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

Informations in the source code are pure facts, therefore they cannot be copyrighted. The curation of these informations, the links between them and the structure of their display are a work of edition. For this reason, I will be glad you aknowledge my name if you want to reuse them.

Metadata / Métadonnées

• Author / Auteur : Pascal Martinolli

• Created / Créé le : 2016

• Most recent version / Dernière version : 2019-10-15

• Original format / format de fichier : DOT language for Graphviz (Open source)

• License / Licence : CC-BY-NC-SA

• Presented at, promoted through / Présenté à, diffusé via : Donjons & Données probantes 2018, Blogue Jeu de rôle sur table, ZoTrpg blog, ResearchGate, Academia, Twitter, Facebook: groupe Initiatives, Facebook: Role-play Theory Study Group, reddit/RPGdesign, Casus NO, Zenodo.

• Contributors (sor far) : People and works cited in the references, Éric Nieudan, Druuples, Steve Dempsey, James Wallis, Veso_M, catnipandfish.

• Commments and collaborations are welcomed at / Commentaires et collaborations bienvenus : pascal.umontreal [at] gmail.com

https://github.com/pmartinolli/TTTTRPG