I've been building a rhythm game resource site for the past few months and thought I'd share some of the technical decisions that actually moved the needle—specifically around Geometry Dash content.
The tricky thing about GD is that it's not just a rhythm game. The level editor means there's this massive creator economy attached to it, and the content strategy has to serve two very different audiences: players trying to beat insane demons, and creators trying to get their levels rated.
What worked for the technical implementation:
Static site generation was the right call. GD wiki-style content doesn't change often, so we pre-built everything with Next.js. Page load on the difficulty comparison tables went from 3.2s to under 400ms. For a game where people are alt-tabbing mid-attempt to check strats, that speed actually matters.
Difficulty data as structured content, not paragraphs. I built a tagging system that lets us generate comparison views dynamically—like showing all Easy Demons sorted by ship-heavy sections. The raw data lives in markdown frontmatter so editors don't touch code, but the output is filterable. Way more useful than blog posts that just say "this level is hard."
Wave spam detection in user-submitted completions. Small thing but users kept submitting obviously fake records. Added a basic anomaly check that flags runs where the attempt count doesn't match the level's verified difficulty curve. Cut moderation time by like 70%.
The actual content that performs best on the guide side isn't what I expected. Straight walkthroughs get traffic but zero engagement. What actually gets shared are the technique breakdowns—explaining why a specific ship transition is frame-perfect, or how the hitboxes on that one Nine Circles section actually work. GD players are weirdly technical about their game.
If you're building anything in the gaming wiki/guide space, I threw together a more detailed writeup of the architecture choices at geometrydashgamedata.com that covers the content modeling in more depth.
Curious if anyone else here has worked on gaming content sites—how do you handle the tension between SEO-driven content structure and what the community actually finds useful? That's been the hardest balance for me.
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