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| − | Anyone's welcome to add their own game to Ludocity, whether they're documenting something they've played before, or are working on a new game that hasn't been played yet.
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| − | This page explains how to create a page for your game. Because wiki pages can be edited at any time, though, there's no need to complete all the steps in one go - you can just add filler text and come back to them later. (If some of the other Ludocity users have played your game, they'll be happy to help you get the ruleset up to scratch.)
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| − | If you have any questions that aren't answered here, or want some help in writing up your game, leave a message on this article's discussion page. If you have a game ruleset already that you're happy to have on the site, and would like us to turn it into a wiki page for you, just email the ruleset to [mailto:submission@ludocity.org submission@ludocity.org] and we'll sort everything out.
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| − | ==Creative Commons==
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| − | Before adding a game to Ludocity, '''make sure''' that you understand how the [[Ludocity:Copyrights|Creative Commons process]] works. By submitting a game to the site, you are agreeing that anyone in the world can run your game, or republish the rules in a non-profit context. They must credit you as its designers, and they won't be allowed to make any money from it, but by publishing your game on this site, you are releasing it into the wild.
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| − | As such, you should only submit games which you have designed yourself, which have already been released under a suitable Creative Commons licence, or which you have explicit permission from the game designer to publish here.
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| − | If you're submitting an old game which is already in the public domain, you should label it as being public domain rather than creative commons (this is explained in the "[[#Add an infobox|add an infobox]]" section.)
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| − | ==Game page creation==
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| − | ===Create the page===
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| − | Pick a name for your game.
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| − | Enter this in the "search" box at the top of the site, to check that there isn't already a game of that name. If the game doesn't exist, the search results will begin with ''"There is no page titled "<your game name>". You can create this page."'' - click on "create this page" to create the page.
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| − | ===Add an infobox===
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| − | Each game on Ludocity has an "infobox" in the corner that tells people who made the game, the number of players it takes, the stuff it needs, and how playable it is. Cut and paste the following infobox template, adding it to the top of your newly created page.
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| − | <nowiki>{{gameinfobox
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| − | |stuff=A chess board and three umbrellas.
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| − | |crew=One.
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| − | |preparation=Ten minutes.
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| − | |time=An hour, plus ten minutes for scoring.
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| − | |place=A swimming pool.
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| − | |activities=Swimming, bluffing, mental arithmetic.
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| − | Change the designer name to your own name, and fill the other fields in as appropriate. Note that the '''designer name''' you choose will be the one that other people credit the game to, when the run the game themselves.
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| − | The '''status''' field tells other Ludocity players what state your game is in. A game's status can either be '''unfinished''' (you're still writing it), '''untested''' (you've finished writing it but haven't played it yet), '''tested''' (you've played it and it still needs some work) or '''playable''' (you've played it and it works well enough that other people should play it too).
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| − | If you want to give us an '''image''' of your game, you can upload it at [[Special:Upload]], and then add it to the "image=" field in the infobox (eg. "image=Chess_Umbrella.jpg"). Please '''do not use copyrighted images''' for this; either provide a photo you've taken yourself, or [http://flickr.com/creativecommons find one on Flickr that's been issued under a Creative Commons licence].
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| − | Anything you list in the '''"activities"''' section will automatically have your game assigned to the relevant categories (eg. mentioning "chasing" will put it in [[:Category:Chasing games]]). As such, make sure it makes at least some sense to add the word "game" after each activity, and try to keep each activity to just one common word (so that you'll overlap with some other games that use the same activity - "finding" rather than "scavenger hunting", "drawing" rather than "bespoke artwork creation").
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| − | If your game is in the '''public domain''' (either because it's an old party game that's already in the public domain, or because it's your own game and you would prefer to release it as public domain than through Creative Commons), you can add "|licence=public domain" to the list of fields, and the infobox will be flagged appropriately.
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| − | ===Introduce your game===
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| − | Underneath the infobox code, write a sentence or two that summarises the theme and aim of the game.
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| − | ===Write up the rules===
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| − | The rest of the article should consist of the rules and instructions of your game, separated by whatever headers you feel are appropriate. (To make a header, just click the button with the big "A" at the top of the edit window, or put a double-equals around the title, such as "<nowiki>==Setting up==</nowiki>".)
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| − | When writing up a ruleset, try to imagine that you’re writing out a set of instructions so that they could be printed out and given directly to the players. If there are a number of different roles - hunters and hiders, for example - or if preparation is required, it can be useful to separate these out into different parts of the ruleset: “Instructions for Hunters”, “Instructions for Hiders” and “Instructions for Preparation”, rather than one long essay describing the entire game.
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| − | Take a look at the existing rulesets to get an idea of how your ruleset should be formatted.
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| − | ===Upload handouts===
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| − | If you've got any handouts that it'd be useful for someone to have when running the game (score sheets, playing cards, badges, background noises, artwork, maps, or whatever), upload them using the "Upload file" link at the bottom of the page, then add the following template to the article:-
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| − | The "|image" field should be a representative thumbnail of whatever the file is, but you can leave it blank if you don't want to provide one.
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| − | ===Add videos and photos===
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| − | If you've got any videos of the game being played, you can embed YouTube, Vimeo or Google Video footage by simply including calls to the template "youtube", "vimeo" or "googlevideo", with the ID of the video after the first pipe and (optionally) a caption after the second. (To see how this works, have a look at [[Holla-Lulu]].) For example:-
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| − | <nowiki>{{youtube|r6LUfW7qnps|''Holla-Lulu'' being played at [[Iglab]], in Bristol.}}</nowiki>
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| − | <nowiki>{{youtube|Ifh8cnT0RdA}}</nowiki>
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| − | <nowiki>{{vimeo|1365158|The South Bank Stag Hunt at [[Hide and Seek|Hide and Seek 2008]].}}</nowiki>
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| − | If you've got another section below the videos, you should use the following template at the bottom of the "videos" section of the page, to stop it from overlapping the videos.
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| − | <nowiki>{{clear}}</nowiki>
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| − | If you or other players have some Flickr photos of the game, tag them with <tt>ludocity:game=yourgamehere</tt> and add the following template to your article to generate an automatic gallery for that tag. (For an example of this in practice, see [[Trap Street]].)
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| − | <nowiki>{{flickr|yourgamehere}}</nowiki>
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| − | If you've got a ''lot'' of images, you can use Flickr's "thumbnail" size instead, for the gallery:-
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| − | <nowiki>{{flickr|yourgamehere|size=t}}</nowiki>
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| − | ===Make a creator page===
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| − | If you want to make a game designer page with your name, feel free to do so - this will be automatically linked from the "Designer:" section of the infobox, if a wiki page with the same name exists.
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| − | You can write anything you like on this page; just make sure to put <nowiki>[[Category:Game designers]]</nowiki> at the bottom somewhere, so that it gets added to the "game designers" category.
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