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key: mechanic/creative-construction--t237
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id: creative-construction--t237
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title: Collaborative creation and user-generated content
summary: >-
  Collaborative editors coordinate several authors' changes while user-generated
  content preserves authorship, dependencies and access conditions.
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    title: Tabletop Simulator
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    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Collaborative creation and UGC
    description: >-
      Collaborative editors coordinate several authors' changes while
      user-generated content preserves authorship, dependencies and access
      conditions.
    image:
      src: images/mechanics/general-tabletop-simulator-02.webp
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      rights: >-
        Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Publisher-distributed
        screenshot from Steam; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY
        4.0.
      caption: Three-dimensional miniatures in a shared tabletop sandbox
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        Preserve authorship, versions and content dependencies during
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provenance: >-
  Original bilingual editorial overviews authored for gamemechanics.pro on
  2026-10-20 and reviewed on 2026-10-21. Scenarios are hypothetical design
  examples; prototype checks describe work to perform, not completed playtests.
  Primary sources support the stated techniques and implementation context, not
  every proposed variant.
license: CC-BY-4.0
codeLicense: MIT
attribution: gamemechanics.pro contributors
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---
# Collaborative creation and user-generated content

id: creative-construction--t237
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/creative-construction--t237
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/creative-construction--t237/

Collaborative editors coordinate several authors' changes while user-generated content preserves authorship, dependencies and access conditions.

## At a glance

![Three-dimensional miniatures in a shared tabletop sandbox](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/general-tabletop-simulator-02.webp)

[Tabletop Simulator](https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Publisher-distributed screenshot from Steam; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. Models become objects on the shared game table

- Preserve authorship, versions and content dependencies during collaborative editing.

- [Tabletop Simulator](https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/)

## How it works

Collaborative editors coordinate several authors' changes while user-generated content preserves authorship, dependencies and access conditions.

## Variants

### Mechanic variants

<a id="t237-variants"></a>

- Shared scenes reveal other authors' actions. <a id="t237-v1"></a>
- Permissions restrict editing in selected areas. <a id="t237-v2"></a>
- Versions restore earlier results. <a id="t237-v3"></a>
- Published packages include required dependencies. <a id="t237-v4"></a>

## Design example

One author builds a level, another configures events and a preview version captures their compatible result.

Prototype check: Test simultaneous edit conflicts and removed dependencies so another author's work is not silently lost.

## Context and limits

Creative mechanics constrain shape, connections and appearance while preserving the player’s choice of a personal result. Each overview separates player actions, state changes and alternative rules. Examples are hypothetical design scenarios, not claims about a named game. A prototype check states an observable question for the next iteration. Existing detailed references remain separately linked from the direction map.

## Connected materials

- Sources in the selection: [Godot: physics introduction](https://gamemechanics.pro/en/resources/#resource-godot-physics) (key: resource/godot-physics)

## Sources and provenance

Original bilingual editorial overviews authored for gamemechanics.pro on 2026-10-20 and reviewed on 2026-10-21. Scenarios are hypothetical design examples; prototype checks describe work to perform, not completed playtests. Primary sources support the stated techniques and implementation context, not every proposed variant.

- [Godot: Physics introduction](https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/physics/physics_introduction.html) (id: source-8cc54cd9f9a5c8e8)
- [Godot: Prototyping levels with CSG](https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/3d/csg_tools.html) (id: source-2abecd308ec5a319)
- [Tabletop Simulator](https://store.steampowered.com/app/286160/) (id: source-ce84c62b65d7ae81)

CC-BY-4.0 · gamemechanics.pro contributors