Submission Guidelines

Tag Guidelines for Graphics Submissions

This page contains the tags you can use on your submission form. Please make sure to use only the proper tags, any other tags will be removed during moderation. Don't put tags such as your or other people's names, game titles, jokes/memes, or anything else irrelevant.

If you find a submission is missing a tag that isn't shown here, please send a message to one of the Graphics moderators, so that they can add the missing tag.

Foregrounds, Backgrounds, Layer 3, Overworld and Graphics Hack

Tag	Description
abstract	Environments that are geometric shapes or other abstract designs.
airship	A ship that moves through the sky.
beach	The ocean or its shores.
bonus	Graphics commonly seen in switch palaces or bonus rooms.
carnival	Carnival or circus themed areas.
castle	Any castle or fortress.
cave	Any rocky underground area.
city	Cities, usually with skyscrapers.
desert	Any dry sandy area, but includes oases.
eastern	Any art, architecture, or other items with aesthetic motifs from Eastern cultures
fire	Anything burning, or fire effects.
flesh	Insides of animals or anything gorey.
food	Anything resembling a common edible substance.
forest	Any area with lots of trees.
grassland	Any plain, meadow, or grassy area.
haunted	Spooky, scary, or depictions of mass death.
house	The interior of a house or a sole house depicted.
ice	An area covered in ice.
industrial	Industrial areas, like factories or laboratories.
interior	Any other building interior that doesn't fit the other tags.
jungle	A more tropical kind of forest.
lake	A non-ocean body of water.
mechanical	A mechanical or mechanized area
mountain	Any mountain, cliff, or canyon.
mushroom	Any area with mushroom platforms.
night	Graphics with features that distinguish it as a nighttime-only graphic (e.g. stars, the moon.)
ocean	A sea, ocean or any other similar large body of water.
pipe	Pipes or tubes.
pyramid	The depiction of a pyramid or its interior.
ruins	Any deteriorated or uninhabitable building.
snow	A snowy areas.
sewer	The catacombs underneath cities and castles.
sky	Clouds and backgrounds that focus on high altitudes.
swamp	Mucky, swampy areas.
ship	A ship that sails on water.
space	Things you see in outer space, or alien environments.
town	Small towns or villages.
toy	Anything built out of toys, like lego blocks.
underwater	Areas under the surface of a body of water.
volcano	An area involving lava.
wild west	Western-style plateau deserts, trains, and old west towns.
wood	Logs, planks, or wooden blocks. SMB3 stage set blocks go here.

Tag	Description
2bpp	Anything with 3 colors or less plus transparency per tile, e.g. an NES rip, or Layer 3 BG.
block	Graphics for any individual blocks
realistic	Photorealistic ExGFX.
retro	Anything styled after 8-bit era games, like the NES or GBC
silhouette	An all black object against a colored background.
texture	A repeating or tiling graphic.
no-scroll	Use this if your background does not scroll, like for a boss fight or title screen.

Sprite Graphics

Graphic replacements for sprites get tagged with the name of the original sprite it replaces (as defined by Lunar Magic) or with that of a custom sprite. Examples: koopa, goomba, hammer bro, lemmy koopa, wendy o' koopa, grey platform, p-switch

Player Graphics

Tag	Description
male/female/genderless	Please use whichever gender is applicable.
humanoid	If the character is humanoid
creature	If the character doesn't resemble a humanoid

Fonts

Tag	Description
cutscene	4bpp 'fonts' that can be used in cutscenes.
sans serif	A sans-serif font.
serif	A serif font.
script	A script font.
glyph	Cryptic, or ancient, or otherwise uncommon symbols and characters.
monospace	A monospace font.

Note: We understand all fonts in SMW are actually monospace, but you can tell whether they're supposed to look serif or sans-serif or whatever.

Miscellaneous

• If it's a graphics swap/replacement, tag what it swaps: yoshi coin, coin, question block, turn block and so on.
• If it has some form of theme like grassland/ice, use one of those tags from the longer list above.
• If it's something else, use your best judgement.

Other Tags

Tag	Description
patch needed	Use this tag if your submission requires a third-party patch. Don't forget to specify in the Description what patch is required though!
redrawn	Any graphics that match the style of the SMW Redrawn graphical hack.
title screen	Something that can be used for a title screen. Mostly backgrounds and fonts, but anything is applicable.