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A category is mandatory for topic creation. You have to choose one in order to even create a topic.
A tag is optional. Tags are used to aid in searching for a specific type of thing.
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This guide shows you how to correctly use categories and what tags are available for use, and how to correctly use them.
Topic Categories
These are the respective categories of the forum that you put topics in.
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Help | The Help category is for getting help on your Gimkit Creative maps and getting ideas from the community for your Gimkit Creative map. Use this category for questions if it does not fit in any other category (about Gimkit Creative.) |
| Devices | The Devices category is for all things about devices. People use this category to provide information about devices and in-depth help questions related to a specific component. (Devices Is Not A Trash Can) |
| Bugs | The Bugs category is for bug reports relating to Gimkit Creative; like if something behaves abnormally or if Gimkit crashes. |
| Community Made Guides | The Community-made Guides category is for writing tutorials about how to make specific things in Gimkit Creative. |
| Updates | The Updates category is for updates made to Gimkit Creative respectively. |
| Gimkit Awards | The Gimkit Awards category is for topics related to the Gimkit Awards event. Now a useless topic due to the event that ended a long time ago. |
| Art | The Art category is for all topics and guides about art in Gimkit Creative, including requests, in-game prop art, and thumbnails. |
| Uncategorized | Unused category that cannot be used in topics. |
Guide Category Tags
These tags are added to guides to indicate what type of tag the guide is. Tags in this chapter must be in Community Made Guides
| Tag | Meaning |
|---|---|
| psa | Topics swaying people to do something over another action. Do not create forum psa topics unless instructed by a moderator. |
| gimkit-beginners | Easy topics for Gimkit beginners to read. |
| forum-beginners | Topics that new forum users should read. (Also Found Elsewhere) |
| forum-tips | Guides about teaching others how to use the forum. (Also Found Elsewhere) |
| tug | The Ultimate Guide, reserved for large, comprehensive guides that cover large amounts of a topic. |
| concept | Topics discussing abstract concepts like AUO. |
| nature-of | Guides going deep into a specific device’s structure, nature and it’s uses, mostly exposing less-known devices to light. |
| idea-catalog | Topics that are a collection of ideas, usually for maps. |
Help/Bug Post Category Tags
Indicator tags used to group together help topics into different statuses. Must be in Help or Bugs.
| Tag | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ideas | For help posts requesting ideas or inspiration. |
| clay-institute | The hardest known difficulty and hard-to-resolve questions. If solved, they could open up new possibilities for building. |
Forum Tags
Tags that directly relate to the forums
| Tag | Meaning |
|---|---|
| forum-beginners | Topics that new forum users should read. (Also found elsewhere) |
| forum-tips | Guides about teaching others how to use the forum. (Also found elsewhere) |
Topic Tags
Tags discussing a specific topic, game, or Gamemode. Examples of topics: Pizza Tower, Baldi’s Basics, Minecraft, Gimkit’s Farmchain, Gimkit’s DLD. Usually goes in Community Made Guides
| Tag | Meaning |
|---|---|
| game-recreation | Topics related to the recreation of an external game, physical, mental, emotional, or digital |
| among-us | Topics about making Among Us in Gimkit. |
| battle-royale | Topics relating to battle-royale styled games. |
| capture-the-flag | Topics about making Capture the Flag. |
| farmchain | Topics about making Farmchain. |
| tag-domination | Topics about making Tag. |
| fishtopia | Topics about making Fishtopia. |
| pokemon | Topics related making Pokémon in Gimkit. |
| minecraft | Minecraft mechanics |
| snowy-survival | Snowy-Survival mechanics |
| halloween | Halloween topics |
| fnaf | Five Nights at Freddy’s mechanics. |
| rpg | Topics related making role playing games in Gimkit. |
| tycoon | Topics about making tycoon games. |
| escape-room | Topics about making escape rooms in Gimkit. |
| trap | Topics about making GKC traps and pranks to trick your friends. |
| christmas | Topics related to Christmas art/builds. |
| voting | Topics related to voting. |
| survival | Topics related to Survival Games |
| racing | For racing topics. |
| bedwars | For bedwars topics. |
| military | Usually for an Art guide about military-related designs and creations. |
| baldis-basics | Guides pertaining to Baldi’s Basics or tutorials to the game. |
| one-way-out | One way out mechanics. |
| code | A topic associated with blockcode mechanics |
| timer | Guides about working countdown timers. |
| board-game | Guides associated with recreations of board games. |
Other
Tags that do not fit in the other categories.