[game_preservation] Descriptive terms for Video Games

[Andrew Armstrong]

Wait, Tetris isn't a puzzle game Rowan? Looks like a puzzle to me 
(admittedly in most incarnations an unlimitedly timed abstract puzzle), 
now we get into the crux of the problem being humans classifying the 
things in the first place and disagreeing :)

I'd agree with whatever actually works; show me a system and if I can't 
find certain games with certain search, tag or category terms it's not 
encompassing enough (be that by content genre, gameplay genre or 
abstract "social" genre).

Andrew

On 15/06/2011 06:01, Rowan Kaiser wrote:

> Well, there are two aspects to discussing genre which have come up 

> here, I think. The first is genre as a classification tool, which 

> theoretically gives people the opportunity to determine the essential 

> characteristics of a game in a word or three or ten, which is, I 

> think, the aim of the initial question here.

>

> On the other hand, there's genre as a social construction, which, 

> regardless of accuracy (how is /Tetris /a *puzzle* game? It's an 

> abstract action game!) is used and will be used. This, Jim, I think is 

> where you had problems with your RPG classification. You may consider 

> it inaccurate, but the social construction is popular shorthand. It is 

> how gamers understand games, I think.

>

> Rowan

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