Comment by lproven
7 hours ago
Fails at the first step, for me. WTF is "Total Annihilation"?
There's a sort of motto in technical writing: every page is page 1.
https://everypageispageone.com/
Don't assume your readers know anything at all. Work out your assumptions and always state them.
I was curious, but not enough to do more than a cursory search. Apparently it's some game I've never heard of and am not curious enough about to read an entire article on it to learn what it can't run on and why porting it was worth it.
State your axioms. That means, step 1, work out what your axioms are, and specify them.
I am pretty sure their first axiom is "this is only interesting to people who know TA already" and, as you suggest, that's probably correct. There's no reason to annoy your primary audience in trying to make your hobby project accessible to people who are not interested in it.
"Everything you need to know should be on the first page"
"I didn't read the first page"
It states right there up front that it's a game and even shows a demo of it playing...