Guidelines

This page lays out the expected guidelines for editing the Wiki, as well as some helpful instruction for creating/uploading quality content.

Please try to follow these guidelines as closely as possible when making changes, and feel free to reach out to Coolant if you have any questions.

General Guidelines and Information
•Editing requires creating a user account.

•Text should be written in a professional tone, using professional language, in the third-person perspective, and as neutral as possible.
 * •Sometimes a subjective tone can be useful when discussing something like mechanics or synergy between upgrades.
 * •Example: "While often not required, dashing can be very useful in quickly dodging projectiles and especially useful in repositioning."
 * •This is, by definition, a subjective statement, but the community would largely agree with it, so it's acceptable for the Wiki.

•Sentences should attempt to be relatively brief, to the point, and immediately relevant to the topic of the page/section.
 * •We're not too strict on brevity as long as the sentence structure flows well.

•Restructuring of pages/sections should be discussed in the Discord before changes are made.
 * •This (especially) includes adding currently unplanned pages.
 * •Remember you can always type up the contents of a page in a text editor before we even have the page up, so this shouldn't stall you out. The information is likely useful somewhere, even if a new page doesn't get made, as well!

•When creating/editing a page make sure to refer to other like-pages to ascertain what the formatting should be. For instance, if you're editing a boss page, reference an existing one.

•When uploading images, check images of a similar category to ascertain if there's a naming schema for them.
 * •For example, enemies are named in the following way: "GhostEnemy.png" or "SkullEnemy.png"

•If a Category is missing for a page, try to add it to an existing category or we can discuss creating a new category.
 * •Add the category at the bottom of the page.

•The following should be added at the bottom of every page, two newlines after the rest of the content:
 * •NavTable template
 * •Category (if applicable)
 * •SEOTags template

Where to Start
Not sure where to start making edits? Check out the following categories: Category:Stub Category:Images Needed Category:Videos Needed

What is needed should be posted in the Discussion section of any pages listed there. On that note, if you notice that something is missing, mention it in the Discussion section of the relevant page and place the page in the category relevant to its needs.

Uploading Video (GIFs)
GIFs uploaded to the Wiki should be of the highest quality possible while trying to maintain some semblance of size control. See the following tutorial for an idea of what is expected and for some instruction on how to achieve nice results:

1. Take a 60fps, high quality capture of the game in fullscreen.
 * Turn off any filters in-game to present the clearest image possible.
 * ie no crt mode, no aiming laser, etc
 * Try to avoid showing your ship/showing yourself firing at the boss.
 * This can often be difficult, so don't worry too much about it.
 * If you're not sure what software to use, I've simply used OBS in the past or more recently Shadowplay. As long as you can get a high quality, 60fps video use whatever.

2. Open video in an editor of your choice. I have Photoshop, so I use that.

3. Watch the video and identify discrete attack patterns.
 * Even if multiple attacks always happen in the same sequence, I would consider them separate from each other if their patterns are distinct.

4. Separate each attack in its own clip and delete any extra clips after you have determined that you have clips of all attacks.

5. Open a new tab/file in your video editor.

6. Cut and paste one of your attack clips into the new tab.

7. Crop the footage with a 1:1 ratio. All gifs should end up square.
 * When cropping, simply try to keep the boss and its attack pattern on-screen as much as possible, also showing the patterns dispersal as much as possible, and try to avoid showing the player.
 * Probably obvious, but also make sure you're keeping the boss fairly centered. If it's a pattern that involves the boss moving around, just try to capture all of the space it moves around.

8. Export the current clip as a 150x150 gif, maintaining the highest quality possible. In Photoshop you can use the "Save for Web (Legacy)" feature.

9. Repeat for all remaining clips in the original editor tab and upload to the Wiki as you would any other image!
 * Naming schema is typically something like "GuardianAttack1", "GuardianHardAttack1", etc.

10. Get annoyed when someone later informs you that you missed an attack.

Additional Video Notes
• The 150x150 size was chosen since gif thumbnails will only autoplay if they are small enough.
 * • Typically, we still scale the gif down to 115x115 on the boss page itself.
 * • Despite scaling it down, it's nice to have the bigger file there in case people want to get a closer look at an attack on the image's page.

• When recording attacks, be aware that many enemies have phases where new attacks are introduced.
 * • Most of the time these phases occur when the boss has 66% and 33% health remaining respectively.

• Some bosses have entirely new attacks or death throes on Hard mode.
 * • If you would like to record all normal/hard mode variants of attacks you're welcome to.
 * • Presently, I have only included video of Hard attacks that are entirely distinct from any of the Normal attacks.