[game_preservation] Descriptive terms for Video Games

[Jim Leonard]

On 6/9/2011 5:46 PM, Alex Handy wrote:

> Something like the strategy genre could then be refined into

> sub-categories: turn-based, real-time, fast-paced, plodding, tactical,

> multi-tasking, etc...

>

> Perhaps another idea would be to refine the tags used in existing online

> game listings. Giant Bomb and Moby Games sort of have tag clouds....

> kinda.... http://www.giantbomb.com/


Actually, MobyGames was going for categorization; it was my hope that 
games could be described by their taxonomy (adventure, turn-based, 
bird's-eye view, etc. could be used not only to show Ultima but other 
Ultima-like games).  It was never meant to be a tag cloud.
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