Preparing the text and categories

● Open up your rules and start cutting them up in to small bits. It’s suggested to use the existing rulebook text for this. While not suggested, you can do this straight in the Tool and skip most of the prepwork. But for example, we’ve found that Google Sheets is an excellent tool for this phase as it helps to structure your thoughts and ideas. You can find a template here, that you can use. Just copy or download it to your own use. (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rNLkN7-2AuwKr7-ycr0ZoFoVb6Jy0kAOTLtNXjMRGUI/edit?usp=sharing)

● At this stage, cut the rules up in a way that there’s one ‘full rule’ per cell. It might be a sentence, or 2 paragraphs.

● Here’s a good example of a short and to the point, a rule called “Starting a new Round“:

After all players have added to their kingdom and selected their next domino, pick 4 more dominoes from the box. Line them up numerically, terrain side down, next to those already selected. Then, flip them over to start a new round. Use the position of each king in the previous line as the new playing order, with the king on the lowest value domino going first.

● While it has several statements, they’re all closely related to “Starting a new Round”.

● After you've split up the Rules, you can come up with categories, in to which the rules will be split in to.

● Examples: Components, Setup, Concepts, General, Gameplay, Examples, Variations, Strategies etc. Also, right now the Tools support 4 subcategories. So rules can be in Components/Wonder Boards/Concepts/Symbols for example.

● Use the sheets template and divide the rules you created in to these categories.