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by Sanguine
# 7 months and 24 days ago (updated 1 month and 29 days ago)
This is a sort of sister thread for the Definitions thread for listing sub-types and genres that may be used to offer greater definition of what kind of type or genre is in question.

Refer to Wikipedia when our group descriptions are lacking or too vague.

UPDATE: Pushed to the wiki: types and genres.

# TYPES #

Shoot 'em um
- Manic shooter
- Cave flyer .. don't mistake with cave flying
- Rail shooter
Simulation
- Dating sim
- Hunting
- Wilderness survival
Flight
- Space flight
Adventure
- Visual novel ... should probably be changed to interactive novel to be more generic, absence of text or text + graphics should be enough to distinguish the visual part.
- Gamebook
Strategy
- God game
- 4X
- Artillery ... think of Scorched Earth
Erotica
- Porn
Casino / Cards
- Cards ... I still don't agree with this tag's existence
- Card-based ... same as cards. less disagreeable, though.
Role-play
- Rogue-like
Edutainment
- Serious
Sport
- Winter sports
... only very few actual game types are listed, most are real games or sports.

Non-specific
- Sandbox

# GENRES #

Fantasy
- High fantasy ... think of Tolkien, the most common fantasy type
- Low fantasy
- Dark fantasy ... loose definition.
- Contemporary fantasy
Sci-Fi
- Steampunk
- Cyberpunk
- Futuristic ... loose definition
- Hard Sci-Fi ... rare
- Paranormal ... can be applied to fantasy as well in some fringe cases.
Historical
... too numerous to list and most are obvious, all are of historical tag type.
Tie-In (not really a genre, but here we go)
- Book
- Movie
- Cartoon ... cartoon movie or tv series
- TV series
- Anime
- Manga ... also Manwha and other similar things.
- European comic
- Comic ... non-specific comic
... also the numerous culture titles, but they're products rather than product types.

# MULTIPLAYER #
- MMO
- Multiplayer only
- Multiplayer co-op

I'll update this when more are found or created.
by Zerothis
# 7 months and 18 days ago
Autoduel and Uncharted Waters are good reasons to have the cards tag. They are not at all of the casino/cards genre but include card games nonetheless.

I think saying Serious is a sub-genre of edutainment is a bit odd. Education is included in some of them. But persuading someone's opinion or personally changing them in some way is a bit beyond education. Actually, having edutainment as a sub-genre of serious makes more sense.
by Sanguine
# 7 months and 18 days ago (updated 7 months and 18 days ago)
But persuading someone's opinion or personally changing them in some way is a bit beyond education.

But they accomplish this supposedly by providing new information or perspectives on the subject (which is a method of teaching, although not as... educational-like), and if not, it's propaganda as far as I can see which would never be suitable as parent of Edutainment. So, I will retain current order :)

Edit: Or I'll move it under Non-Specific if you still insist the relation is really _that_ bad.
by Sanguine
# 7 months and 18 days ago
Autoduel and Uncharted Waters are good reasons to have the cards tag. They are not at all of the casino/cards genre but include card games nonetheless.

So we'd move cards to mean games that contain card minigame/s rather than being just card-games? The group description should be modified to reflect this.
by Zerothis
# 1 month and 30 days ago
by teran01
I'm searching for the best fitting tag name for stock broker / share trading / wall street / stock market games.

Bookies
"stockmarket" seems ok also
by teran01
# 1 month and 29 days ago
I'm going with stockmarket then. Never heard the word "bookies" (although I know what bookmakers are, and bookmakers I associate with "betting" and not necessarily with stock market exchange and the like).
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