Best first steps?

[monsterfurby]

Having recently been strongarmed by my group to start a campaign using beautiful Mekton Zeta (Fuzion variant), I decided to roll up my sleeves and start building a decent basis for creating the three-hundred-odd NPCs they are bound to run into at some point during the story. However, my first look at the authoring kit has been sobering. Not that it's overly complicated - I can wrap my head around XML well enough - but I simply cannot find any indication as to what to best start with in the documentation and elsewhere.

How should I go about setting up a new game system from scratch? I don't even really care of I build the most basic of basic tools to begin with, but I'd greatly appreciate any pointers as to where to best start on my journey to a functional module.

 

[Mathias]

Here's the Savage Worlds walkthrough from the authoring kit wiki: http://hlkitwiki.wolflair.com/index.php5?title=Authoring_Examples

I'd recommend scanning through that first, so that you can familiarize yourself with the process of bulding a game system - what sort of steps did they take along the process.