Contribution Guide

If you'd like to contribute there are stubs or outdated articles you can help fix up.

Adding recommended games

Whether a game should be added to the wiki or not just comes down to the question: Do most people on /v/ generally recommend the game? If the answer to that is yes, then go ahead and add it, but if not - and even if you personally think it's a great game - it shouldn't be added.

A good resource for recommended games is charts that get posted on /v/, like:

Pages that need updating

Most of them. The majority of this site was made ~2009-2013 so there's a lot that needs updating, even on the more popular systems. And there's a lot of obscure systems that don't have any games listed at all yet: Systems with no recommended games

Exclusives / Definitive releases

To make finding the best version of a game easier, exclusives and the definitive version/port of a game is marked with a colored background. To do this you just need to add the {{Exclusive}} template to the row of a table, like so:

{| class="wikitable"
!Name
!Description
|-{{Exclusive}} <!-- Put it here on the |- -->
!Game
|Exclusive
|-
!Game 2
|Not Exclusive
|}

Adding images

You can either link to external images (hotlink) or upload them to the wiki.

External images

This method is preferred as it will reduce backend needs and will typically load faster for users.

To post an external image, use the {{External Image}} template.

Using IGDB for images is preferred for their common image size/format and low filesizes. Their resolution support and naming scheme can be found here.

For thumbnails:

t_cover_big is best for cover art
t_screenshot_med is best for 16:9 screenshots
t_720p is best for non-16:9 screenshots.

And for URL t_1080p is best.

Uploading images

You can upload an image up to 4MiB, although please convert/compress/resize them if possible.

The wiki supports these formats: png, gif, jpg, webp, avif, jxl, svg