Submission Guidelines

Tutorial Submission Guidelines

When submitting a tutorial to the Tutorials subforum be sure to follow these guidelines or your thread may be removed.

1. Know what you're talking about.
   If you aren't all that knowledgeable on a topic, don't write about it. False, incomplete, inaccurate or incorrect information does not make for a useful tutorial.


2. Cover all the important content on a topic.
   For a tutorial to be useful, it should hit all major elements that are relevant to the topic, leaving nothing out that could be useful for readers—no partial tutorials. For example, if you're writing a tutorial on the Lunar Magic overworld editor, make sure you cover all the key details such as layer 1, layer 2, events, paths, etc.


3. Have relevance to SMW Central.
   SMW Central focuses on Super Mario World hacking, therefore submitted tutorials should be relevant to that endeavour. Tutorials for tools or processes that help people get set-up with creating or playing SMW hacks are also acceptable.


4. Be as descriptive and easy to understand as possible.
   If you want people to understand the process explained in your tutorial, make sure the content is as detailed as possible without leaving out crucial information while also not including any information that is extraneous to what information it is trying to pass along.


5. Lengthy tutorials should be well-organized.
   If you are writing a long tutorial with many steps and a lot of information, including images, a table of contents, etc. will make it much easier for people to follow along.


6. Use proper spelling and grammar
   Tutorials that have misspellings, grammatical errors, and typoes are difficult to read and understand. If it isn't legible, it will not be very useful.


7. Avoid informal language
   Chatspeak, leetspeak, etc. as well as slang and abbreviations may make your tutorial hard to understand without context. Try to be as clear and plain spoken as possible.