On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:03:09PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:47:37PM +0000, Anton Piatek wrote: > > > Categorising anything can be really hard, and games are no exception. > > You think it is easy - RPG, RTS, FPS... etc. But then you get games > > that span sevetal categories... > > The question is, what categories are essential? Minor categories are > > useless as they are too fine, but we should think about what top level > > categories there are, then break them down into sub-categories. > > I suggest to start to work from the tags in the game facet in debtags: > > game::TODO - Need an extra tag > game::adventure - Adventure games > game::arcade - Action and arcade games > game::board - Board games > game::board:chess - Chess Games > game::card - Card games > game::demos - Demo programs > game::mud - MUDs, MOOs, and other multiplayer RPGs > game::platform - Platform games > game::puzzle - Puzzle games > game::rpg - Role-playing and adventure games > game::rpg:rogue - Rogue-Like RPG games (Nethack, Angband etc.) > game::simulation - Simulation games > game::strategy - Strategy games > game::tetris - Tetris-like games > game::toys - Toy and Gimmick > game::typing - Typing tutor programs > > Debtags allows multiple categories, so a game which is more things at > the same time can get all of them.
For information, Debram (which does not allow multiple categories) has 6000 Games 6100 Game Programming 6200 Text Games 6210 Basic Text Games 6211 Traditional BSD-style Text Games 6212 Fortune 6213 Word Games 6214 Card Games and Puzzles 6215 Board Games 6217 Other Basic Text Games 6220 Roguelike Games 6250 Console Action Games 6260 MUD 6270 Other Text Games 6290 Text Games with Sound 6400 General X Games 6410 X Board Games 6420 X Card Games and Puzzles 6440 Turn-based X War Games 6450 X Adventure 6470 Other General X Games 6500 X Sports and Action Games 6510 X Shooters 6511 X Shoot-and-Scroll Games 6512 XPilot-like Games 6517 Other X Shooters 6518 Run, Dig, Dodge, Mine and Jump in X 6520 Other X Arcade Games 6522 Territorial X Action Games 6523 X Maze Action Games 6526 X Paddle, Pinball and Marble Games 6527 Further X Arcade Games 6530 First-person X Games and X Racers 6531 First-person X Shooters 6533 X Flight Simulation 6535 X Racers 6550 X Sports 6570 Other X Action Games 6572 X Falling-Block Games 6574 Realtime X War Games 6575 X Adventure Action 6577 Further X Action Games 6700 Other X Games 6710 X Gizmos 6720 X Educational Games 6740 X MUD 6800 Games for Specific X Desktops and Window Managers 6810 Gnome Games 6820 KDE Games 6870 Games for Other Specific X Desktops and Window Mngrs 6900 Non-X Graphical Games This might tell you nothing you do not already know, Enrico. Nevertheless, if you find any more useful ideas in there, feel free to appropriate them. -- Thaddeus
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