Why start from scratch and reinvent the wheel when you can use the WordPress boilerplate generator for writing the Survival WordPress Plugin? The boilerplate generator saves valuable development time by providing a solid plugin structure, handling activation and deactivation hooks, and efficiently managing various files.
See the accompanying articles.
The Survival WordPress Plugin needs tables to store Survival related data. See the article Creating tables with plugins. To get a better understanding of how a query result can be shown inside a WordPress Page, learn about WordPress shortcodes. And last but not least, for creating a user interface, check your knowledge on HTML and JavaScript.
Together with a draft of your datamodel (draw that yourself) you are ready to create your own WordPress Plugin!
Example
Survival WordPress Plugin generated with Boilerplate.
