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  • From: Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Reorganisation plans for games grimoire
  • Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 15:22:55 -0500

I'm not entirely sure what the difference between your "adventure" and
your "role-playing" sections would be. It would seem to me that rogue,
crossfire, and the genre would fall under the "adventure" group.

On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 10:52 +0100, Andrew "ruskie" Levstik wrote:
> Reorganisation plans for games grimoire
>
> 1.
>
> All games need to be rechecked.
> For games that are hard to define into what category it would go
> the spell will be put into an unknown section and the user consensus
> will be asked so that the users decide about such spells.
>
>
> 2. Classification
>
> The following sections will be available:
> adventure (You walk around, pickup stuff, talk to ppl, solve puzzles)
> arcade (You jump around on platforms, sidescrolling, top-down scrolling,
> most other 2d games, yes e$
> puzzle (You try to solve puzzles to continue)
> racing (Driving, crashing, etc...)
> role-playing (rogue, rogue-like, MUDs, MMORPGs, RPGs, etc...)
> simulation (Flight, train, whatever is supposedly trying to immitate
> realism)
> sports (basketball, football, etc...)
> strategy (turn-based, real-time, micro-managing, macro-managing, and others)
> shooters (you walk around and you shoot stuff, or you drive around and
> shoot stuff, etc...)
> utils-games (stuff like server browsers and such)
> servers (servers for multiplayer games)
> libs-games (any relevant libraries that are not in the main grimoire and
> are used almost exclusivly$
> z-rejected-games (games with non-free licenses, non-source versions and
> such)
> engines-games (game engines)
> desk-games (cards, board games)
> terminal (some terminal toys like fortune and such)
> unknown (anything until it's classified)
>
>
> 3.
>
> There will be a "SECTION" file in each section detailing this info
> so that ppl can decide when adding games that don't have a recommended
> section
> If there is a recommended section then check the game and decide on
> the above criteriums if it belongs to it or not and act accordingly.
> If a decision can't be made either play it or put it into the
> unknown section and ask someone else to classify it or simply ask
> on SM-discuss or on irc.
>
> I hope I got everything down proper... comments and suggestions welcome(and
> encouraged)
> Flames should be directed to /dev/null
>
> And a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005 from (I hope) the whole Sourcemage crew and me.
>

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