Submission Guide

**Work in progress- I'd like advice improving this and everything.**

## The Road Map

Here's my 3 step plan to building this site

### 1. Development

Here's where the site is now. The sites existence has not yet been shared with the comnuity as I'd like to get things up and running first. So far We have-

* A basic proof of concept and a rough layout of information over a number of pages including level by level guides.
* A comprehensive Tips page with an assortment of guides covering everything in and outside of the game.
* I'm looking to bring in some comunity members, to see what they think and take on any advice they have for the project.

Hopefully some of the early members will see areas of the site they feel they can controbute to. There are already some writen guides for the games Such as this one and I'd like to take chunks of those guides and use them (with permission) on the wiki. (I cant find out who wrote that guide so any help on that would be great!)

Additionally I'd like to be able to link to video guides using a time stamp, so that sections of existing video guides can be linked to in the level by level guides. Example: the AR2 coin toss trick advice will link to a full 2 hour video guide and cuts right to the section where the coin toss is mentioned.

### 2. Going Live

Once I've ran the Development stage past enough people and the level by level guides are coming along nicely we'll take it to the larger sonic community so that everyone can both use it and add their own content to the sites pages. (When Early Access is launched I'd like the level guides to at least feature a basic writen safe route and glitch guide which will include some pictures and videos.)

At this point I'm hoping for support to start coming in and for the sites users to start filling in the blanks and to also start making advanced guides to certain tricks, such as what frames are safe to jump on and other specifics. I'm hoping that people who have made their own guides in the past will allow the site to use their content and maybe even help update it to the format this site uses.

In short I want this to be final destination for everything anyone knows for sonic 1,2,3&K and that's a LOT of work, hopefully many hands working together can make light of it

### 3. Completion

New tricks are being discovered all the time, so while the guide will probably never be 'complete' it'll come to a point where we have 99.9% of everything done and the flow of new submissions has ground to a hault. In which case the time will have come where we want to set what we have in stone and uneditable by just anyone (partly to protect it from trolls). At which point further advice would be submitted for moderation and updated by the sites mods. The mods will act as the sites custodians to protect what we have and to make accasional updates so the site doesnt become outdated. The mods can chosen from high ranking people in the sonic speedrun comnuity discord and I'm happy to pass on site ownership.

I'm not sure this is the best site to host this guide as the ads are rather distracting and phone users need to veiw it in desktop mode. So at some point it might be best to move the information here to another site, but for now this site has all the tools we need and is free.

### And That's the Plan!

Admittedly I'm the best person to write a guide on Sonic, but remember Cunningham's Law - "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

Right now a couple pages such as the main page, this page and the emerald hill 1 example are locked, all other pages (the other levels and the tips page) are avalable for anyone to edit at will. (this might be dangerous as trolls could just wipe the Tips page, I'll lock that page down when we go live)

## Where to Post Feedback

I've opened up a tempory discord at https://discord.gg/xDvhZp8b9c In time I'm hoping that maybe the Sonic Speedrunning Community discord could host an area for submissions but that would be once the site enters stage 3. So right now its just a convinent area for feedback and discusion. If you edit a wiki page you could also mention what you've done on the discord if you want to or feel its something that needs discussion.

Also I dont really know anyone on the Sonic Speedrunning Community so any input on how to advertise the wiki there in the future would be great. I dont want to get in trouble for self advertise the site there but in time I'd like to see this site as being a tool for them and the comunity to use and would happily hand the site over to them as they seem like the primary sonic comunity.

## Twitch and Timestamped video embedding

I've managed to embed you tube clips on the site, but twitch embedding as well as timestamped videos are a bit beyond my technical expertise. I've found a guide of how to do it but I'm not great at that sort of thing. If anyone knows how to set it up please let me know.

## Formating

The best example of this formating at work is in the Emerald Hill 1 guide. the basics are listed below. Try to keep advice short and to the point, if more detail is required feel free to use pictures and videos to suport what you're saying. This is only a my guideline, feel free to give **Feedback on anything and everything here.**

**Glitchless**

Difficulty:

* Safe: 0/10
* Optimal: 0/10
* Glitched: 0/10

**Safe**

An easy and safe example.

**Advanced**

These are tips that build on the safe stratagy to save more seconds.

**Optimal**

The perfect run and ultra hard stratagies.

**Glitched**

Detailted info on performing the glitch and the new routes these may open up.

**TAS**

Todays TAS is tomorrows optimal routes

Details on how to add embed videos coming soon, you can also upload your own videos and pictures. I'd like to keep videos level and trick specific, but maybe we can use time stamps to point to parts of existing you tube videos.

## Consistancy

We should aim to use the same type of language and sentence structure in the guide and to keep things consistent, TBH I'm not really sure how to do this and my writing style is not great.

The one tip I can think of (and it might be more confusing?) is that when we tell the player to press down, we tell them to "press [down]". I've used brackets here to signify they are pressing down the down button, rather than "pressing down a button". makes it a bit less ambiguous. Consitency using the words Holding, Pressing, Tapping is also needed.

## Special Thanks

I've just been given permision from timpz to use the work himself, Segajunkie and others have done on https://kb.speeddemosarchive.com/Sonic\_the\_Hedgehog\_2 Thanks very much <3

More submission guide to follow, please advice me on what else to put here.

Feel free to add to the wiki and fix my many speling mistakes