Editorial Policy — How NickGen Researches, Tests & Corrects

This page explains how NickGen decides what to publish, where its information comes from, who checks it, and what happens when something turns out to be wrong. NickGen is a one-person project run by Hoàng Dương Dũng in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It is not affiliated with NetEase or Blood Strike. Updated August 26, 2026.

What this policy covers

Everything published on NickGen falls into three buckets: the name generator itself, curated lists of names and symbols you can copy, and short guides about using them in Blood Strike. This policy applies to all three. It is written in plain language on purpose — if a rule here is vague, it is not a rule I can actually keep.

How I decide what to publish

Topics come from what Blood Strike players are actually searching for and asking about, not from a content calendar. I look at the search queries that already bring people to NickGen and at the questions that keep coming up around names, symbols and blank spaces, and I write the page that answers them.

Two rules keep the site small on purpose. One topic gets one page. If a subject is already covered, the existing page is expanded rather than duplicated, because two pages competing for the same question just makes both of them worse. And if I have nothing to add beyond what is already easy to find, I do not publish. A page that only restates what everyone else says is not worth your time or mine.

Where the information comes from

There are four sources behind what you see on this site:

The Unicode standard. Every “font” style on NickGen is really a set of Unicode characters — mostly Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols — not a font file. Which characters exist, what they are called and what block they belong to comes from the published Unicode character data, not from guesswork.
The game itself. Whether a character survives the Blood Strike name field is not something the Unicode standard can tell you. That has to be tested in the game, and it is.
A symbol and character library used to assemble the copy lists, so the grids are broad and varied rather than the same twenty icons repeated.
Search data from this site, used only to decide what to write about and what to fix — never to invent a statistic. If a number appears on NickGen, it is either measured or it does not get published.

Who writes, and who checks

I want to be straightforward about this, because a lot of sites in this niche are not. Drafts on NickGen are written with AI assistance, and every page is reviewed by a human — me — before it goes live. AI is useful for structuring a page and drafting explanations quickly. It is not allowed to be the last word on anything factual.

In practice that means three things are always done by a person, never delegated: testing characters in the game, deciding what claims the page is allowed to make, and signing off before publish. Nothing is published automatically without that review. The byline on a page is a real person, and there are no invented authors, invented credentials or invented job titles anywhere on this site.

How a symbol gets tested before it ships

This is the part that separates a useful name tool from a list someone copied off another site. A character can be perfectly valid Unicode and still be useless to you, because the game refuses it, or your phone has no font for it and you get an empty box instead.

So the check is simple and physical: the character is pasted into the actual Blood Strike name field to see what happens. There are three possible outcomes, and only one of them is good.

It pastes and displays correctly — it can go on the site.
The game rejects it or refuses to save the name — it does not go on the site, or it is flagged clearly as unreliable.
It saves but shows as an empty box on a normal phone — it is treated as a failure, because a name nobody can read is not a name.

The honest caveat: Blood Strike can change what its name field accepts in any update, and different phones ship different fonts. A style that worked last month can stop working. That is exactly why this site carries update dates and a way to report a broken symbol, rather than pretending the answer is permanent.

How often pages are updated

Every page carries an “Updated” date, and that date means the page was genuinely re-checked — not that a word was moved to make it look fresh. Changing a date without changing anything real is a way of lying to readers, and it does not happen here.

Pages are re-checked on a rolling basis, and sooner than that when something forces it: a Blood Strike update that changes the name field, a symbol that stops working, or a reader telling me something is wrong. Time-sensitive pages such as redeem codes are checked far more often than a stable explainer, because a stale code is worse than no code at all.

Fixing mistakes and reporting one

I get things wrong. When that happens the page gets corrected and re-dated, rather than quietly deleted. If a correction changes the practical advice — a symbol that used to work and no longer does, for example — the page says so plainly instead of hiding the change.

If you find something broken, please tell me through the contact page. The most useful reports include the symbol or style you copied, the page you got it from, and what your phone or the game did with it. That is usually enough to reproduce the problem straight away.

What NickGen will never do

Claim to be official. NickGen is an independent fan tool with no connection to NetEase or Blood Strike, and it will never imply otherwise.
Invent people or credentials. No fake authors, no fake experts, no awards nobody gave.
Invent numbers. No made-up statistics, download counts or ratings.
Fake reviews or testimonials. None on this site, and none planned.
Sell or broker in-game currency, top-ups or accounts, or link to anyone who does.
Store what you type. The generator runs in your browser; the names you enter are not sent to a server or saved. See the privacy policy for the full detail.
Promise a symbol works everywhere. Stylish names are Unicode characters, not fonts, and no site can honestly guarantee how every app and phone will render them.

Frequently asked questions

Does NickGen use AI to write its pages?

Yes, for drafting — and every page is reviewed by a human before it is published. Testing characters in the game, deciding what the page is allowed to claim, and the final sign-off are always done by a person.

How do you know a symbol actually works in Blood Strike?

Because it is pasted into the game’s name field and checked. If the game rejects it, or it saves but appears as an empty box on a normal phone, it is treated as a failure and does not ship as a recommended style.

A symbol I copied here stopped working. Why?

Usually one of two reasons: a game update changed what the name field accepts, or your device does not have a font covering that character. Report it through the contact page and the page will be re-checked and corrected.

Does an “Updated” date mean the page really changed?

Yes. The date is only moved when the page has genuinely been re-checked or corrected. It is never refreshed cosmetically to make old content look new.

Is NickGen paid or sponsored by anyone?

No. NickGen is a free, independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by NetEase or Blood Strike.