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What do you have to do in this scenario?.Divide the story between the scenarios so you can decide what will happen in each scenario:.Decide how many scenarios you want to have.Scott (author of Liberty) wrote 'Here is how I wrote Liberty: Pieces will fall into place much more easily. If you have a good idea of where the story of your campaign is going when you start, the little Consequently, what keeps people coming back for more is a good, interesting story mixed with good, interesting game play. What separates a campaign from a single scenario is the ability to tell a story. But it is a lot of 'work' (& fun).' Story First Before you commit to an epic think long and hard. The forums are littered with half finished epics.

so there is still quite a lot to keep you busy after you are done. and keeping it up to date with the game engine and any new happenings on the WML front. Even now there is still bugfixing and a couple of things I'd like to add.

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Shade (author of The Rise of Wesnoth) wrote: 'I started TRoW last April, even after it was scenario complete it was still eating all of my free time (Time not spent sleeping, at school / work, or with loved ones / friends) until mid-November. It's much easier to start with a small story and add elements to it than it is to cut an epic down to the length of a haiku. If you set out to make an epic campaign spanning the whole history of Wesnoth, you'll likely (although not necessarily) become bored or frustrated along the way somewhere and give up. For a more in-depth treatment including heuristics for scenario and campaign balancing, see the Campaign Design How-To. What follows is a collection of advice to aspiring campaign designers extracted from the Wesnoth forums. If you intend to create a multiplayer campaign, see MultiplayerContent for the required syntax amendments. Note: By default, you will find your campaign in the singleplayer selection menu. If you run into errors while putting things together, DebuggingCampaigns has a few tips.

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The full syntax of the tag is documented in CampaignWML, and an example of a fully featured _main.cfg with one in use can be found on the BuildingCampaignsTheCampaignFile page. For the #ifdef conditional, you should use the format #ifdef YOUR_DEFINE_HERE (you may define one in ).It should be placed in your _main.cfg outside any preprocessor conditionals.It will display your work in the campaign selection dialog with a description, an image (as shown on the right), as well as allowing the user to select a difficulty level before beginning to play.

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But how to begin playing? By setting up a tag in your _main.cfg. Technically, a campaign is simply a string of scenarios with next_scenario= id keys in toplevel (see BuildingScenarios), where the value of id is in the key of the same name in toplevel.

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