User blog comment:Rubble Troubler/Nitrome Blog Project!/@comment-1455034-20131217015402

Wiki Weekends sounds like a good idea. However, I'm not sure about tips on levels. I'll go back and see if he said anything about that (tips). Kind of reviewing a game's elements I think may be a possible for a post on the blog. Wiki Weekends sounds good, however, Mat may not like it as that likely requires him to scan every post I send him.

Here is a copy of Mat's email, the one he allowed me to post. This may provide some other ideas or pointers: I don’t mind you telling people on the Wiki that we continue to discuss what may be possible in teaming up in the Wiki members being directly involved with the Nitrome blog or that you mention that any of them can be involved if they want.

We are also open to suggestions and it does not have to be limited to the blog. One thought for example that I had is that you guys do a lot of walkthroughs/guides of our games….this may work as a blog feature but I think in that instance it might be worth adding a walkthrough button underneath the game it corresponds to. In the case that the walkthrough is a video we also don’t mind people making their own ad revenue from their videos. I think at the end of the day we are just looking to be more open with our community and we want to find the right balance in doing that and we are open to suggestions.

People that want to get involved could also take on different types of features…for example one person might want to do walkthroughs, one might be more about speculating what we are up to and another might just want to be a monthly round up about what has been added to the Nitrome Wiki. You can try things, take things away…it’s pretty much up to you guys to see what works.

I think the key elements that we are going to struggle with is spoilers. I don’t mind at all that you guys find things and post it to the Nitrome Wiki like how you recently found the site skin early or some of the avatars early. It would be weird if we let you post something as blatant as that onto our blog as it would spoil our own reveal. On the other side sometimes your discovery’s are a little more speculative and although backed up with evidence and often correct come across more like how a big games site such as IGN picks apart a games video for little clues. That sort of thing I think is totally fine and would be very entertaining. On the other side we might be able to make a spoiler system for this….we are looking to add this functionality to the comments so perhaps it could be applied to an actual post too.

One thing I saw mentioned in the Wiki was linking to the other sister wikis. I don’t think we would want to cover things not related to Nitrome except through what we already do with Pixel Love. Then again there might be something that makes sense and we remain open to people suggestions.

Anyone can submit something to Nitrome, however, in order to do it, you will have to send it to me via Special:Emailuser. Everything sent has to have proper English, although if you make some grammar mistakes, I can always fix them up.

After I look through it, I may suggest something. When both me and whoever sent it is happy with any changes, I'll send it off to Nitrome/Mat (I'll have to go back to my email to see who I was supposed to send it to). The only topics that cannot be written about is content relating to Nitrome that has not yet been announced, stuff like avatars found prior to the avatar's release. However, writing about unused content is fine.

The only games that wouldn't be okay to write about for unused content would be Mega Mash and Flightless, Mega Mash because it has so much unused content that I believe Nitrome wouldn't publish a blog post on it because it would be too long. Flightless' unused content cannot be written about because all of the unused content in Flightless is content that will be used in the game, and also that Flightless has way too much unused content to put into a single blog post, and also, it contains content to be used in the final PC version.

Also, Nitrome may want to introduce enemies such as what they did with Bad Ice-Cream 3.