Hi! If you’re reading this I assume you want to contribute something to DSG. That’s great! To maintain consistancy across all of the guides, here’s a guide for the guide-writers on what I’m looking for in terms of writing style, formatting, and tones. - @MoSadie
Goals
- Create resources that help Sherpas guide Guardians through difficult activities.
- Create resources that can be easily sent to new raiders via copy/paste. (This inclues the text as well as the pictures/videos)
Tone
Try to keep the tone semi-professional. A little subtle humor is fine, as this is all a game, but jokes are not the priority. Think like CritRoleStats, accountants with a sense of humor.
Style
Refer to things in a 3rd person perspective. (Ex. Guardians will shoot) (TODO: Is this 3rd person, not sure, double check)
Format
Try to keep an consistant format with the other similar guides in that category. (ex. Format raid guides like other raid guides) If you reference something that is capatlized in-game, captalize it. (ex. Guardian, Exo, Triumph)
External Resources (Images, Videos, etc)
Please do not use any resources you do not own.
For images:
- Place the image in the images folder for that guide. (ex. raid/dsc/images) With a descriptive name as the file name. (ex. encounter-0-map.png)
- Reasonable watermarks are encouraged, just don’t cover the whole picture with it.
- Please add alt text and a caption as best you can. Feel free to credit yourself in the alt text and caption.
- If possible, make the image a link to the image, so right clicking and selecting “Copy Link URL” gives a direct link to the image.
For videos:
- The goal is for videos to be supplements to the text and images when there is no other way. They should add context that can’t be easily given via text or still image. Aim to minimize the number of videos on a page.
- Recommended hosting platform: YouTube
- Avoid having extra music. (Destiny 2 music is fine)
- Avoid lengthy intros. (“Hi, Name here, here’s how to whatever” is totally acceptable, please don’t spend time thanking sponsors or telling your life story though)
- Limit the content of the video to as short as possible. For example instead of showing the whole run through (with combat) in the “Survive the Storm” part of the DSC show just the paths from one bubble to the next bubble.
- Optional, but recommended, if you talk in the video add manual captions to the video. For YouTube here are details on how to add captions to your video.