Board Thread:Site Questions/@comment-28856385-20191022161857/@comment-10502460-20191023040539

In addition to the blacklist against "haunted" gaming stories, there are five explicit franchise blacklists as well as several others included in the abuse filter, such as Sonic. The rules governing what kinds of video game story you are and are not allowed to publish on this wiki are murky enough that I've been meaning to suggest revisiting and revising them for clarity.

My main advice for writing a video game pasta is this: don't make your first one be about a real video game or franchise. Make one up for your story, that way you have free reign to make things up as you go along and don't have to worry as much about falling into old cliches. The same goes for television pastas: creepypastas about fictional TV shows tend to be better written and more engaging than lost episode pastas because the authors have more creative freedom by making up a show for their story.

Once you've got some experience under your belt, then and only then would I recommend delving into writing about real video games, and even then it can still be hard to pull off even for experienced creepypasta writers.

So, let's say you wanted to write a pasta based on a classic platformer series from the 90s, such as Super Mario Brothers, Sonic, Pokemon, Zelda, etc.

Instead of making it about one of these real game series, try coming up with a video game or video game franchise that is your own creation for the story but still fits with the nostalgic tone you are going for. Whatever real game you had in mind originally, think about the reasons you chose that game and use that as a starting point.