I put together some writing tips to help guide you on your merry way should you wish to Write For Us.

In general we’re looking for well written, clear articles that take about 1 minute to read. The articles must be relevant to games development and be written by someone with a good industry track record. Prior experience of writing isn’t important.
In order to make something exciting, here’s a few tips

  • Create Something Unique – Don’t just do what has already been done and expect people to think it is cool. If you have found something like it then expect that your readers have too!
  • Create Something Useful – Make sure that the resource you create is something your readers actually need. Ask yourself if the resource would ever be used by yourself? My favorite and most successful resources and posts are often the ones I like to go back to myself! (I know it’s kind of vain )
  • Create Something Citable – A post that can be referred to over and over again. Great posts are often quoted, linked to, and referred to in other blogs and future posts. So make sure it is formatted so your best content is easily found and links and references would be enticing.

How To Write

  • Be Human
  • Innovate
  • Tell a Story
  • Fix a Problem
  • Listen to your audience

Types Of Post

While we are happy with pretty much any contribution from a games industry veteran we are always on the lookout for a few things, which will typically get posted up first.

We are currently desperate for giant list posts with over 100 items in them, we’d ideally like to post up one of these per month. E.g., tips for new starts, naming great people, UK developers, Top Freelancers, etc.

Indepth

  • Long (1000+ words)
  • Evergreen, content is always fresh, relevant for months, years to come.
  • Comment Worthy. Inspires discussion. Active subscribers.

Long tail blog post

  • Problem Solver (How To, Product Review)

Fun blog post

  • List Posts: 40 best tips, Top 10 videos, 17 people you should follow
  • Video / Audio
  • Interview

HTML Post Formatting

Here are some guidelines on how to format you’re HTML version of your article. All articles will end up this way and it’d be appreciated if you could find the time to tweak it so it’s to your liking.

Expla­na­tion of Post Tags

In our posts, we like to include a lot of dif­fer­ent HTML tags to make our posts look great. Here is an expla­na­tion of the ones we use the most and how to call them.

h3 Tag

The <h3> tag is the head­ing tag used to talk about the most impor­tant information

h4 Tag

The <h4> is used usu­ally within the h3 tag to dis­play lower lev­eled information.

h5 Tag

The <h5> tag is usu­ally used within the h4 tag to dis­play even lower lev­eled information

h6 Tag

The <h6> is used to dis­play the copy­right infor­ma­tion of any images used from other sites such as Flickr for example.

To cre­ate a drop cap for the first let­ter of the first para­graph in your post, just use this piece of code and place the first let­ter of the word within: <span class="drop_cap"></span>

When you are quot­ing some­one, it is usu­ally accept­able to use the >blockquote< tag to wrap the quoted text in. There are three dif­fer­ent kinds of for­mat­ting of block­quotes we use here that you can eas­ily use to dis­play your quotes.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, con­secte­tur adip­isic­ing elit, sed do eius­mod tem­por inci­didunt ut labore et dolore magna ali­qua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nos­trud exerci­ta­tion ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea com­modo con­se­quat. Duis aute irure dolor in rep­re­hen­derit in volup­tate velit esse cil­lum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excep­teur sint occae­cat cup­i­datat non proident, sunt in culpa qui offi­cia deserunt mol­lit anim id est laborum.

This is a pul­lquote that floats to the left of text

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, con­secte­tur adip­isic­ing elit, sed do eius­mod tem­por inci­didunt ut labore et dolore magna ali­qua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nos­trud exerci­ta­tion ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea com­modo con­se­quat. Duis aute irure dolor in rep­re­hen­derit in volup­tate velit esse cil­lum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excep­teur sint occae­cat cup­i­datat non proident, sunt in culpa qui offi­cia deserunt mol­lit anim id est laborum.

And this text floats to the right of the paragraph

Sed ut per­spi­ci­atis unde omnis iste natus error sit volup­tatem accu­san­tium doloremque lau­dan­tium, totam rem ape­riam, eaque ipsa quae ab illo inven­tore ver­i­tatis et quasi archi­tecto beatae vitae dicta sunt explic­abo. Nemo enim ipsam volup­tatem quia volup­tas sit asper­natur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia con­se­qu­un­tur magni dolores eos qui ratione volup­tatem sequi nesciunt.

  • <blockquote>Text here</blockquote>
  • <blockquote class="left">Text here</blockquote>
  • <blockquote class="right">Text here</blockquote>

If you have any notes you would like to include in your text, just wrap that text in a new para­graph within this tag: <p class=“note”></p>

If there is an alert of spe­cial warn­ing you need to empha­size, wrap a new para­graph within this tag: <p class=“alert”></p>