L33tsauce: A Tale Of Two Solutions
L33tsauce can be a little hard to wrap your brain around. I mean, what is it exactly that we’re trying to accomplish?
The truth is, l33tsauce is an attempt to solve to different problems, for two different audiences, with one little service. Boil it all down, and you’ll find that we’re really trying to do two things:
1. Allows gamers to easily share & get paid for their knowledge
2. Provide an easy-to-use resource for gamers looking to learn
I’ll start with the second problem. Have you ever tried to run the classic TIE Fighter Collector’s CD Edition on your (mostly) modern gaming PC? You know, the one that sports Windows XP?
No? Yeah, OK, I could see that one coming.
But the point is this: if you go searching for even basic how-to information in video games (How to bunny hop in Counter-Strike: Source), you usually won’t find what you went looking for.
How, in today’s Google world, is that frigging possible?
A big chunk of the reason is that all the gaming knowledge on the internet isn’t really structured for knowledge-retrieval. It’s scattered and distributed on millions of pages in thousands of threads in hundreds of forums and blogs, and it’s not really written for search engines in the first place.
Now we get to the first problem: why would anyone worth their salt in gaming bother to share their tips and tricks in an easy-to-enjoy format?
Setting up a blog (well, a blog worth reading) is actually a fair amount of work. And getting people to read it is about twenty times harder. Posting on forums is all well and good, but that’s not really a space that you as an individual have any real control over.
So a blog is too much work, and a forum doesn’t really give you what you need.
Enter l33tsauce. We’ve broken our backs to make sure that putting together content is super easy. Our team of design wizards has everything set up so that it’s pretty right when it comes out of the box, and it’s a page, not a blog, which means that if you write it once…it’s done.
Oh, and the traffic is built in. Not only do our pages land well in Google, but l33tsauce itself is a searchable, navigable site, designed to help the people who want to learn how to run a proper Zerg strategy find exactly the right page from the best of the best of the Zerg masters.
