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[url=/groups/info/emotes]Emotes[/url] was added for this som

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:30:34 +0100

[url=/groups/info/emotes]Emotes[/url] was added for this some time ago, but that's all. More are needed, even if these are only sub-types of emotes.

[url=/groups/info/mapdeficient]Map deficient[/url] was added

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:28:06 +0100

[url=/groups/info/mapdeficient]Map deficient[/url] was added some time ago for the last point.

I'll add Gigeresque at some point in the unforeseeable

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:22:45 +0100

I'll add Gigeresque at some point in the unforeseeable future if there's no comments on this from anyone.

The DVD9 format doesn't need to be in the media. It

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:22:34 +0100

The DVD9 format doesn't need to be in the media. It's more of a curiosity than of any real need. Never heard of a DVD player that couldn't [i]read[/i] the different DVD formats.

This was mentioned before, but release specific tags would b

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:00:45 +0100

This was mentioned before, but release specific tags would be neat, though not absolutely necessary. This could cover stuff like censoring, copy protection, and some other quirks.

Considering the low ratio of games made into other media, ma

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:34:04 +0100

Considering the low ratio of games made into other media, maybe this would be better as an additional identifier instead of splitting the tags? Simple tie-ins ([code]tieins[/code]), as plural, could work. Singular although occasionally more accurate per case is more ambiguous and would require additional clarification, however, as plural it is pretty obvious that the game itself is not the tie-in to some other media but rather has later tie-in(s) in other media. Alternatively it would be something like [code]hastiein[/code], but I'm pretty sure that doesn't appear acceptable to anyone.

Going this way however does not free anime, manga, cartoon, comic, etc. tags for other purposes.

With lack of comments on the issue, I declare [code]sourcema

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:11:56 +0100

With lack of comments on the issue, I declare [code]sourcematerial-[/code] the proper prefix. I'll leave cases with the opposite tie-in direction with the old tags as I convert things. Some tags related to this do not really need conversion one way or the other, such as [url=/groups/info/europeancomic]European comic tie-in[/url] as it only farther clarifies the parent tag which already states the direction of the tie-in.

Uncertain if anime/manga should be merged to cartoon/comic since the hardcoded graphic style flag effectively states this already (though not 100% reliably).

Traditional (card / board), puzzle, sports and racing games

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:35:50 +0100

Traditional (card / board), puzzle, sports and racing games don't really benefit from this I think. Adventure games probably don't either.

Number of characters/objects on screen

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:55:58 +0100

For some games it's a strong point to have large number of characters, vehicles, etc. on screen without a hitch, for others the lack of them is simply for realism or other purposes. We need some way to identify these even if one end of the spectrum will be severely underpopulated.

[i]Examples:[/i]
Demon Chaos boasts thousands if not tens of thousands characters on screen.
Gratuitous Space Battles and AI War probably has around 500 or more.
Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander have hundreds.
Starship Troopers (2005) has probably hundreds.
Many strategy games have anything from 20 to 500.
Many fast paced zombie shooters have anything from a dozen to nearly a hundred on screen.
Some games, especially older ones, have less than a dozen.

It's irrelevant how much the games can handle, only how much we see in the games.

There should about 3 to 5 tags that can be easily identified with and don't require exact numbers (though numbers can be used to elaborate them).

There'd be:
* Less than dozen
* Dozens (20-60)
* Hundreds
* Thousands
* ...?

I'd like to split the hundreds to ranges of <= 300 and >=500 but I can't think of anything for that.

These need a common prefix for clarity (character count, population, whatever) and the less than dozen needs better word (`few´?).

re:

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:27:22 +0100

It was established prior that there are some releases with multiple media in same package. For example: [game=#16800]Tex Murphy: Overseer[/game]. Unfortunately these are extremely rare but still worth recording.

See: [url]http://code.google.com/p/uvl/issues/detail?id=44#c7[/url] (comments 7 and 8)