.. _section-challenge-design:


Challenge Design
================

About challenge design
----------------------

Unlike :ref:`section-software-installation` and :ref:`section-site-configuration`,
challenge design is not intended to need "sys admin" skills.  During this phase, the focus
is on tailoring the default Makahiki configuration to suit the needs of your specific
challenge goals. 

Getting to the challenge design page
------------------------------------

Go to the Settings Page (see :ref:`section-configuration-settings-page`), and
click on the Challenge Design button to retrieve the page providing the top-level
interface to the various aspects of Challenge Design.

.. figure:: figs/configuration/configuration-challenge-design.png
   :width: 600 px
   :align: center

As you can see, the page consists of two sections, "Challenge Settings" and "Game
Settings".  Challenge settings enables you to set the global properties of the challenge
(rounds, scores, users, etc.), while Game Settings enables you to configure the specific
games to appear in the challenge and their properties. 

Challenge
---------

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   challenge-design-name-settings
   challenge-design-round-settings
   challenge-design-score-settings

Players
-------

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   challenge-design-groups-settings
   challenge-design-teams-settings
   challenge-design-players-settings


Other settings
--------------

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   challenge-design-pageinfo-settings
   challenge-design-helptopic-settings
   challenge-design-notice-settings
   challenge-design-resourceblackout-settings


Game Design Settings
--------------------

The following sections document the settings accessable from the "Game Settings" widget.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   challenge-design-game-admin-enable-disable
   challenge-design-game-admin-resource-game
   challenge-design-game-admin-smartgrid-game
   challenge-design-game-admin-topscore-game
   challenge-design-game-admin-raffle-game
   challenge-design-game-admin-participation-game
   challenge-design-game-admin-quest
   challenge-design-game-admin-badge
   challenge-design-game-admin-referral