GEAS. You WILL use it!

What is it?

GEAS was started as a joint authoring environment for use by role playing groups that wanted to share materials away from the gaming table. This includes character descriptions, histories, session summaries, maps and scenes that were handled within GEAS rather than at the gaming table.

Since it's inception, GEAS was designed to be as generic as possible, so that it could be adapted to other uses as well. We've found it very handy for coordinating the development of the software, and it's use for organizing genealogical information, such as family histories, has been proposed.

We think it is generally applicable to any scenario where many people can work together to build a web site organized by topics without any technical expertise in web site design or hosting.

Try It.

A demonstration site is available here, and some screenshots will be available shortly. This GEAS "sandbox" has some sample content we pulled from some of our own GEAS sites, and demonstrates some of what you can do. These campaigns are available as read-only through guest logins. You can also create your own login and then start your own campaign. That way you can try out adding pages and notes, changing styles, etc..

Please note, however, that the sandbox is cleaned every Monday. This means that all content other than our samples is removed entirely. The demonstration site is not a suitable home for long-term campaigns of your own (but see the next section).

Get It!

The GEAS project is released under the GPL. You can download it below.

Version	MD5 sum
GEAS-1.3.0.tar.gz	bfd6eb54817f12cfb61a27bd54aa8c9b
GEAS-1.0.1.tar.gz	a2341d4ed81c34ae5795346dbbef9bd8