Game Ideas Wiki:Tutorial

Hello! This is Geniusguy445 with a list of things that concern the entire wiki.

Navigation
Eventually, the site will be laid out to look like a video game. The navigation divides into 5 sections: While I make a cool background, and rediesign the main page, i need help with something.

You see, my plan of making the wiki look more like a video game has turned out to break the navigation into 5 groups. Here they are.


 * New
 * Continue
 * Account
 * Tutorial
 * Community

But I could use some help with the content of these pages. So far,

I'll explain more about that at a later time.

Wikia Help
Wikia provides us with a glossary of editing question-and-answer help. It covers most of the stuff that you will need to edit pretty much everything. It has a range from help for novices, to reminders for experts. This is an excellent help. On the other hand, it (obviously) doesn't cover everything. For the stuff it misses, try looking at the specifics.

The Six Pillars of Birthing a Game Idea
These are the Six Pillars of Giving Birth to a Game Ideas. They are supportive and well-known guidelines to help people create their game ideas. We created these to provide a guideline to help users learn what order to edit in. We want them to give us a lot of content before they worry about formatting. Otherwise, nothing gets done!

1. Begin by brainstorming or writing down everything you can think of for a topic on a new approprietly named page

 * You can create as many game ideas as you like... Anything is allowed for creation except sexual content!
 * Be aware of where you put your article. When making a full game, clicking CreatePage will work fine. (Select "Blank Page" as your template under most cases.) But, since this is a games wiki, I would say make character articles subpages of the game articles. That way when people are browsing various game ideas they don't see random characters.

2. Divide information based on topics. Commonly, articles are divided into: introduction, story, gameplay, characters, enemies/bosses, trivia/quotes.

 * Use == == for headings and === === for sub headings.

3. Correct grammer mistakes

 * We do not want to do this for you too often. Mistakes happen, but that is what the preview button is for. We won't kill you, though, if you forget. ;)

4. Add links, pictures, bold the title, and add categories.

 * Every article must have links. Link to other games, characters, etc. Only link to a subject once.
 * Upload pictures of what your game would look like. They could be screen shots, player art or sprites. On here it doesn't matter.
 * Titles must be bold, characters should have links, games should be italicized and linked to.
 * adding categories can be done at the bottom of the editor, near the publish and preview area. When making an article be sure to add categories that describe it. For right now, that would be would game system your game would potentially be for.

5. Preview article before posting. Add basic summaries of your ideas so people who browse them can understand.

 * The preview button is right beside the publish button. But previewing helps you find mistakes that you might have missed while editing a long article.

6. Post!

 * Click publish.

Wikia Help (More)
Many of these come from my blog, as I like to keep track of them. But they will now be added here, to help you guys. There is an extensive list of available "special" tools, a list of "magic words" that allow you to do cool things like say "there are pages on the wiki" You know, cool stuff and one of the best places ever to find answers to your questions (It's so good, you could almost say if your question isn't answered there, you are probably trying to make up a question. Or something.) More to come. There are an even bigger list of what Admins can do.

N2K
Need to Know is a section (which may become its own page if it gets big enough) where users can post videos, links to their favorite games, and links to other places that are very relevant to the wiki that everyone should see. This section is closely monitored to make sure that the stuff remains relevant. And these aren't ideas, they are inspiration!

Games
Basically, the top three best of the web. The link names can be a little bit more informal than articles.

1st person Shooters
[http://www.candystand.com/play/paintball-smash Paintball! :D] Or go for a sniper game!

Action/Adventure
[http://www.andkon.com/arcade/adventureaction/raze/ Platform/Shooter. It's Raze!] Final Ninja

Racing
A game called Rush Not truly a racing game, but a thrill ride nonetheless

RPG
A cool flash RPG I found that my brother likes

Fighting
Super Smash Flash FTW!

Platformers
[http://www.gamesforwork.com/games/play-12856-Infinite_Mario_Bros-Flash_Game Mario. What else?] [http://www.miniclip.com/games/commando-assault/en/ shooter/platformer. Can't stop playing!]

Puzzle
Tetris! Not only that, but Faultline!

Defender
Bloons Tower Defense 3!

Videos
Youtube clips here! Only related ones. Also allow TED videos. As long as they relate.
 * TED videos. Talks done by people who think a lot. There are a couple on video game related topics, like the ones below:
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Series
You want series? How about a free emulator? Virtual NES.com!

Wikis

 * The Super Mario Wiki. Good for those who need information on Mario games.
 * Here is a list of wikis about various Nintendo franchises.

Websites

 * Amazing Cracked.com articles:
 * Video game commandments
 * Things game makers will never change
 * Things game makers do that are really annoying


 * This is a plot generator that may provide a head start for a cool idea.

Things to remember:

 * This wiki is on the internet, and everyone can see your work. Act sharp or don't act at all is what we're saying!
 * This wiki has some licencing awesomeness you should know about!
 * Have fun creating your articles! We wish the best of luck to you and everyone here.
 * Talk pages are for discussing content. Discussions are for the community portal and forum. Your personal talk page is another place to have conversations. This page was made to communicate with the rest of the wiki our standards and remove similar sections that would appear on the main page talk page where they shouldn't be.
 * Talk page comments should always be signed with ~ or just
 * Confused about anything? Contact Us!

This collection is meant for those who do not know, and a reminder for those more experienced with wikis. Thank you for working to accomplish these guidelines and make the wiki a great place to share ideas! Geniusguy445  (talk)  21:54, December 19, 2010 (UTC)