AppleGamingWiki:Editing guide

Article structure

AppleGamingWiki's article structure is directly derived from that of PCGamingWiki. Please refer to PCGamingWiki's Editing guide for specific instructions on specific details on how to format an article. On AppleGamingWiki, our article structure (to begin with) purposefully reduces the complexity of the articles, however other sectins will eventually be reintroduced.

This means the inherits from PCGamingWiki the following sections:

Infobox
Availability
Issues resolved
Issues unresolved
Compatibility

Our articles omit the following sections:

Introduction
Monetization
Essential improvements
Game data
Video
Input
Audio (and Localizations)
Network
VR support
Other information (and API)
System requirements

Infobox

Template:Infobox_game

See PCGamingWiki:Editing guide/The infobox

Many articles have the PCGamingWiki article structure as a basis. Therefore to save time it should be possible to directly copy the Infobox of any PCGamingWiki article into an AppleGamingWiki article.

Items that need changing from PCGamingWiki infobox:

|release dates= - This now has new macOS/iOS/iPadOS/tvOS release formats. The old Windows/OS X/Linux release dates have been removed.
|codeweavers= - Codeweavers website.
|pcgamingwiki= - PCGamingWiki article name.
|asg= - Apple Silicon Games article link.

Other differences:

No longer have different namespace for developers, publishers, engines or series.
Removal of taxonomy fields - this may be reintroduced in the future, the only one that remains is 'series'.

{{Infobox game
|cover        = Game article layout.jpg <!-- Try to find the highest resolution of a PC game cover -->
|developers   = 
{{Infobox game/row/developer|Developer}}
|publishers   = 
{{Infobox game/row/publisher|Publisher}}
|engines      = 
{{Infobox game/row/engine|Engine}}
|release dates= 
{{Infobox game/row/date|macOS|Month dd, yyyy}} <!-- (Example: January 3, 2012) -->
{{Infobox game/row/date|iOS|Month dd, yyyy}}
{{Infobox game/row/date|iPadOS|Month dd, yyyy}}
{{Infobox game/row/date|tvOS|Month dd, yyyy}}
|reception    =
{{Infobox game/row/reception|Metacritic|deus-ex-mankind-divided|83}} <!-- (Example: URL section and score - Deus Ex: Mankind Divded) -->
{{Infobox game/row/reception|Opencritic|1812/deus-ex-mankind-divided|81}}
{{Infobox game/row/reception|IGDB|deus-ex-mankind-divided|83}}
|taxonomy     =
{{Infobox game/row/taxonomy/series            | Seriesname }}
|steam appid  = 277430
|steam appid side = 10
|gogcom id    = 1207658682
|gogcom id side = 
|official site= https://example.com/
|hltb         =
|igdb         = 
|strategywiki = 
|mobygames    = 
|wikipedia    = PCGamingWiki
|winehq       = 2
|license      = 
|codeweavers  =
|pcgamingwiki =
|asg          =
}}

Availability

Template:Availability

See PCGamingWiki:Editing guide/Availability

The main difference is that this table will not track Windows or Linux, but has new fields for macOS, iOS, iPadOS and tvOS instead.

If a game has no macOS native version then using is still appropriate - it will link to the corresponding PCGamingWiki table (if it is defined in the Infobox). This should be the case for all Windows/Linux games that are not on macOS e.g. Fallout 4.

{{Availability|
{{Availability/row| Retail | | EGS | Example: retail copy of a macOS game activating on Epic Games Launcher. |  | macOS }}
{{Availability/row| App Store | id1527064732 | App Store | Example: iOS/iPadOS game available through the App Store. |  | iOS, iPadOS }}
{{Availability/row| Developer | http://www.soldak.com/Depths-of-Peril/Buy.html | DRM-free | Example: game released directly from website. | Steam | macOS  }}
{{Availability/row| GOG.com | legend_of_grimrock | DRM-free | Example: game available through GOG.com. |  | macOS  }}
{{Availability/row| Origin | the-sims/the-sims-4 | Origin | Example: game available through Origin. |  | macOS }}
{{Availability/row| Steam | 207170 | Steam | Example: game available through Steam. |  | macOS }}
}}

Compatibility

This is the primary source of information. Every rating should have a corresponding Verified by [[User:{{{user}}}]] on {{{date}}}

confirming what settings were used to attempt a compatibilit test. Currently this does not track properties yet but will do in the future so that lists can be automatically built.

{{Compatibility/macOS
|native               = na
|native notes         = 
|rosetta 2            = na
|rosetta 2 notes      = 
|ios-ipados app       = na
|ios-ipados app notes = 
|crossover            = na
|crossover notes      = 
|wine                 = na
|wine notes           = 
|parallels            = na
|parallels notes      = 
|windows 10 arm       = na
|windows 10 arm notes = 
|linux arm            = na
|linux arm notes      = 
}}

perfect    - Game can be played with no issues.
playable   - Game can be played through with minor audio or graphical glitches.
runs       - Starts, maybe runs well, but major glitches/issues prevent game from being completed.
loads      - Loads, but crashes in title screen/menu/in-game.
unplayable - Crashes when booting/infinite black screen.
na         - Not available in this method/format.
unknown    - Method hasn't been tested yet.

Fixbox

See PCGamingWiki:Editing guide/Fixboxes and providing instructions

{{Fixbox|description=Name|ref=<ref>Reference</ref>|fix=
}}

Referencing

Refdevice is a new template only for AppleGamingWiki. Please read Refdevice documentation for details on how to read this template.

<ref>{{Refdevice|user=|date=yyyy-mm-dd|device=|os=|method=|version=|resolution=|settings=|framerate=|controller=|url=|title=|comment=}}</ref>

<ref>{{Refurl|url=|title=|date=2021-mm-dd|snippet=}}</ref>

<ref>{{Refcheck|user=User|date=2021-03-14|comment=Comment (optional)}}</ref>

<ref>{{References}}</ref>

- this is used at the bottom of every article which contains references.