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. Multiple categories happen also among different facets, so for example the game facet can be crossed with the interface facet to tell terminal games from X games, and the 'role' facet can be used to tell real game packages from their related data packages (like for example wesnoth-data). When a game appears that cannot be made to fit in an existing tag, one can tag it game::TODO and see how to improve the category system. There's also a proposal for improvement already: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debtags-devel/2005-November/001110.html Three example searches can show that we're almost there, but a bit of work still needs to be done: debtags search 'game::arcade && role::sw:application' debtags search 'game::arcade && role::sw:amusement' debtags search 'game::arcade && ! role::aux:*' Namely: - See if game::arcade is a category too broad - Check if a game is 'application' or 'amusement', and add the missing role tags - Add the missing role::aux:* tags to the various *-data, *-images, *-sounds... packages Besides improvements, I think that debtags already gives a pretty good base to start implementing user oriented cool stuff right now. For example, IMO we miss a neat game launcher, like a simple interface (think the game launchers in the inflight entertainment systems in intercontinental flights) to show all installed games, organised by category, with a small description and why not a thumnail image (taken from a standard file in /usr/share/doc/game, maybe?). Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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