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I've recently browsed through the wiki for the first time. The LDing guide is W-A-S-O-M. Now, the part about good tips and common mistakes sums up almost everything about what we explain to newer designers in our reviews - "make it longer, avoid cutoff, playtest more", all of these. Shouldn't there be a note in the rules saying that if you're unexperienced with both designing and playing levels, you should read this guide? Shouldn't be a section about level designing added to the rules? Maybe this could help to reduce bad levels on the portal!

EDIT: A few parts in the guide are a bit dogmatic, especially the part of "what tiles fit with which theme?" and all that. I recommend there to be a notification that many tiles can be used in much bigger contexts than it seems, and that these are just raw guidelines on what to do and what to avoid, because: just like in chess, great LDers mostly are really great because they can free themselves from the trammels of dogma.

I was about to comment that the LDC page for the 2nd LDC is wonderful. I love all the trivia, all the entrants/judges info packed tightly together in one easy to find space. I understand if it'll take a while to do all the LDCs but I'm really looking forward to seeing more of those.

Thanks for the encouragement, guys. I've been working hard on this for a while, and I am very happy to see it really start to take shape. In all honesty, Supershroom, I agree on that list. I have not finished going through the section, and I am trying to figure out how to give the advice without saying "You Must Do This". I am actually combining several similar lists that have been posted over the years into one combined list, and it is taking longer than I want. (Also, I've gotten a bit busy IRL, and I haven't had much time to work on it the past few weeks.) And, while I have definite ideas about how to finish off the SM63 LD Guide, that doesn't mean that I am the only one that can add to the wiki. Everyone else is more than welcome to come on by and add what they know. That will be the true power of the wiki in the end.

Doram wrote:The Kinda February Update

Thanks man, it's looking good.

mehhh I did a few things. Do you think you could add the link to either this thread or the wiki itself to the header? It would make it more visible and easier to access.

You know, I've been thinking about adding it to the header for a while. What do you all think?

If I could thumb up that post more times, I would.

Plus, the added visibility would make me at least much more likely to contribute while idly fishing for things to do.

Please yes