Games Categories

[Thaddeus H. Black]

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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