Members of the Achievements project manage the layout and completion of a comprehensive list achievements and trophies on the various Xbox 360 and Xbox Live Arcade games, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Network games, as well as other games which have achievements, such as Games for Windows. All achievements pages can be found in subcategories of the Achievements category.
Achievement pages
Layout
A special template exists for laying out achievement pages: {{Achievements Header}}. It is to be used to start a table as follows:
{{Achievements Header|g=yes|trophy=yes}}
| [[Image:Achievement_image.jpg]] || Achievement name || The official description of the achievement. || {{G|10}} || {{Bronze}}
|-
| ...
|}
The table contains all the achievements, with the first column containing the achievement's image, the second its name, the third its official description, the fourth its Gamerscore (if appropriate) using {{G}}, and the last its trophy, if applicable. Above the table should be a short sentence summarising at least the number of achievements in the table, and the total Gamerscore.
If a game has several different sets of achievements (for example, single player and multiplayer achievements), they should be put into separate tables under appropriate level-two headings.
For a good example of an achievement page, see Fallout 3/Achievements and trophies.
Categorisation
Achievement pages can be put into multiple achievement categories, depending on the systems for which they've been released.
- Xbox 360 achievement pages go in Category:Xbox 360 achievements
- Xbox Live Arcade achievement pages go in Category:Xbox Live Arcade achievements
- Steam achievement pages go in Category:Steam achievements
- Games for Windows achievement pages go in Category:Games for Windows achievements
- PlayStation 3 trophies go in Category:PlayStation 3 trophies
- PlayStation Network trophies go in Category:PlayStation Network trophies
Achievement pages should never be put straight into Category:Achievements. It is possible to find out the systems for which a game was released from the infobox on the game's main page.
Achievement images
Achievement and trophy images should be categorized in Category:Achievement images, Category:Trophy images, or both as the case may be. In addition, the images should also get the guide-specific category ([[Category:Game Name images]]). Achievement and trophy images should typically be 64×64 pixels in size, and the filename should be formed according to StrategyWiki policy, with the name of the game or its abbreviation, followed by the achievement's name or unique identifier and the type of image it is. A well-formed filename would be: "Game Name Achievement Name achievement.png".
It was mandatory since Xbox 360's inception that games for it should have achievements, and the same is true of PlayStation 3 as of 2009. Achievement and trophy images are made by the developer, so in all likelihood, the images will be identical for each system, as this is less work for (from the developer's point of view) a useless feature. The exception is the PlayStation 3 platinum trophy, which has no corresponding Xbox 360 achievement, and so will have to be found separately. For the rest of the images, if you can obtain one system's, you'll have the other's. For games where the images or even the achievements themselves are different (such as when the game is ported to the other console much later), split the achievements and trophies up between two tables under separate headings. For example, Ninja Gaiden II.
Make sure when uploading an achievement or trophy image from another site, that no after effects have been added. For instance, xbox360achievemnts.org and ps3trophies.org both shrink images down and apply a green or red border, respectively. Other sites, like 360sync.com whitewash their images so they don't contain the actual colors. The best way to ensure you get quality images it take them yourself with screenshots and crop them out with an image editor. Failing that, just make sure you are getting images that haven't been modified.
Where to find images
If you're looking for lists of achievements, they're all over the place. Put a search in for "game name achievements" and tons of links will come up. Pretty much any list you find will be usable for the purpose of creating the achievements table, however, most sites don't include an image of the achievement. For PlayStation 3 trophies, see this thread about how to get trophy images from your PlayStation Network account online.
Here is a growing list of good sites for finding unmodified achievement and trophy images.
- A site specific to the game. Many of these, including wikia pages, have a lot of people who are interested in the game and have put together these images already.
- trueachievements.com – Big list, good images.
- ps3trophies.co.uk – Lots of high quality trophy images.
- playstation.joystiq.com – Huge images, good quality. Remember to scale them down to 64×64 when you put them on the guide page.
- consolecommunity.com – Search the forum, then click the name of the game in the far right column (the forum the thread is contained in). The achievements are usually stickied at the top of each game's forum.
- 360-hq.com – Careful, they sometimes have whitewashed images too.
- dlb-network.com – Not a lot of games, but they get the images right off the xbox.com and playstation.com sites. If anyone knows how we can do that ourselves, mention it here.
- consolemonster.com – Mostly whitewashed images, but they have some good ones at times.