Application Tips

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:16:00 GMT

Posted by: solo_sword

Every app period (yep, it's that time again) we get quite a few applications. We accept many and reject a few, yes. Let's get one thing clear straight off the bat: we don't look for reasons to reject your app, we look for reasons to accept it. Sometimes there are glaring errors or issues that prevent us from doing so, or maybe your application simply fell flat. It happens to the best of us, really. And to try to cut down on the number of rejections and help you guys out, this is a little tip sheet on what we look for.

The disclaimer here is that if you see something in here and get offended that I'm using your app as an example? Relax. I'm not. Everything included in here is something that more than one person has done in the last two and a half years. I'm not trying to single anyone out, negatively or positively.

Well, except myself. In the interest of full disclosure I'm outright saying that I do get the frustration, because my Jaye app was rejected on first try. I had to resubmit it with changes to get it through. I'll also say that I spent the week waiting for app opinions being really worried that my Jaina app wasn't going to go through because I got picked apart for assuming people knew the canon and therefore skimping on backstory. I learned from it and will never do that again because it sucked. We really do not discriminate.

Now that that's out of the way, here are some tips, just little things you can do to help things out. And if you keep reading, we even have some additional help. More on that in a minute.

( and here they be )

The last thing I will advise is to utilize fh_launchpad, maybe even before you app, to get a better feel for the character before you write things, especially the sample.

So hopefully that will help out some. As for that additional help, because she is awesome, Erin wrote up a few new sample applications that should give a better actual example of what we look for. You can look specifically for a student, teacher or townie. And on the slightly more tl;dr side, here's one with slightly more information for a character from a more non-normal world.

Good luck with apps!

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Student Sample Application

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:28:00 GMT

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( Student Sample Application - Kate Libby )

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Sample Teacher Application

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:09:00 GMT

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( Sample Teacher Application )

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Sample Student Application

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:07:00 GMT

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( Sample Student Application )

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Teacher Sample Application

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:43:00 GMT

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( Sample Teacher Application )

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Sample Application

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