Genre & Subgenre Guide

[Shadow Kisuragi]

i'm with those saying pong/breakout should be a sub-genre, not it's own genre. otherwise if that was it's own genre then there would be other things that didn't make sense like a "Doom" genre with all FPS in it.

On that note, Izret did propose a separate genre for FPSes, which is great considering they're lumped in with things like SHMUPs and light gun shooters.

i feel like that wouldn't be as big a problem if sub-genre was a dropdown filter in the database search just like genre. then in searches you could narrow it down to which specific type of shooter you were looking for.

That's the intent, if we can narrow down things. Right now, it's too much in transition.

Also, why did you submit to the queue rather than directly using your staff permissions?

[tactical_nuke]

Also, why did you submit to the queue rather than directly using your staff permissions?

I didn't notice I had the option to "Add" rather than "Submit" now. D'oh. Thanks for that.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

You can also submit directly from the game info page.

[tactical_nuke]

Semi-related database question: How should we write out titles with multiple games? There's no consistency in the DB.

Mario/Duck Hunt
Mario / Duck Hunt

I was doing the first but the second looks cleaner.

[ApolloBoy]

The second method is better.

[Izret101]

I concur.

EDIT
Like everything i am sure there will be exceptions though.
Don't always assume a / needs spaces in front and behind.

[tactical_nuke]

Sure, if a title is visibly written a certain way, a / can go where the packaging says. To be clear I'm talking solely about games that have multiple titles with nothing in between. Titles with '+' or '&' or '-' are just written out that way of course.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Getting off-topic, but many games artificially have ":" or "-" in their titles. Just sayin'...

[tactical_nuke]

That's another thing we need a consensus on. If a title has a subtitle in it, should we add a colon even if it's not present on the packaging? I say we should, just cause it looks cleaner.

[Boshamp]

I would agree that it looks cleaner and should be done. But if it is, we would still want to make sure the search system can work without it. So if someone searches for Baten Kaitos Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean instead of searching for the same title with the added ":", it doesn't come up showing "No Results" if they leave the ":" out.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Aware I need to fix the search. Don't worry about the title breaking it.
It SHOULD be a simple fix, but the PHP method changed and I need to look into it before modifying it.

[Boshamp]

I noticed some titles work around the search issue by having multiple Alternative titles. Is that not the correct method for addressing the issue with the search specifics?

[Shadow Kisuragi]

For now, that works...

[tactical_nuke]

Warioware fixed. Homebrew still has to be deleted.

[tactical_nuke]

Also a reminder to myself, in step two we need to look into and discuss:

• Action & Adventure
• Strategy RPGs
• Shooters & Shmups