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A Definitive List of Gaming Genres?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the captain-of-categories dept.

An anonymous reader puts forth this challenge for the Slashdot readership: "Construct a definitive list of game genres for PC and/or console that doesn't dribble off into silly categories like 'licensed movie franchise,' or include redundancies like 'action', '3D adventure' and 'platformer.' My friend and I have been messing around with this for awhile, trying to do a better job than the game news sites, but we're finding it's harder than we thought."

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  1. Try using multiple tags by zhobson · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Using multiple descriptive tags for each game might make the problem easier.

    For example, a game can be a "platformer" and an "adventure" game. It might even be in "3D". So perhaps "3D platformer adventure" works as a set of tags for a game rather than an atomic category.