FWIW (likely not much), this reminds of the 'games' class of applications, hinted at in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, which was adopted in LSB.
/usr/games/ binaries /usr/share/games/ static data /usr/lib/games/ shared libs /var/games/ high scores The 'benchmarks' class and its layout appear intuitively similar to that, except games have their own man page section 6 (shared with demos in Solaris). -Artem
