Genre & Subgenre Guide

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Just to step in... when we made the Release Types, we had strongly considered making Homebrew a Release Type. However, at the time, we didn't want to jump into the pool with it, since it can become a slippery slope with other Release Types like License, Unlicensed, Pirate... Keep that in mind, folks.

Not that I entirely mind adding new Release Types, but keep in mind how controversial some of these monikers can be. As Nupoile mentioned, Homebrew is not entirely Homebrew, but it should indicate that the game was released AFTER the lifespan of the console.

[Duke.Togo]

I agree that this is a slippery slope. There are commercially produced games outside of a consoles lifespan that wouldn't be considered homebrews (for example, Huge Insect from Sachen).

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Don't get me started on Sachen, considering that they had a combination of pirate and legitimate games for Game Boy...

[tactical_nuke]

Uh, I'm just now contemplating the usefulness of a Breakout/Pong Genre. Why do we need this if Breakout and Pong games are all just Action games? Deletion worthy? I'm starting to think so.

[Izret101]

It was initially there because there were so many of them. (If everything from the 70s ever gets added i wouldn't be surprised if it was over 1k entries from then alone)
But if you are going to have a BreakOut/Pong genre you might as well have a Maze genre.

Just stick it as a sub genre

If subgenres are standardized and searchable (at one point in time every single field on a game page was going to be searchable) then it doesn't hurt anything and helps maintain a more streamlined DB.

[tactical_nuke]

Ok making this another task.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Just went through part of the list, and realized that quite a few are not quite fleshed out yet...

[tactical_nuke]

Need opinions- should World Class Track Meet be in Fitness or Sports? The Japanese variants are Fitness because it's obvious that was the main selling point. Were the others marketed solely for use with the Power Pad?

[techwizard]

i would take fitness to mean the player gets real exercise out of playing the game, and sports are simulators where you play something without the physical exercise part. if it was meant to be played with the power pad and marketed as a way to get in shape or something along those lines then i would go with Fitness. anything else and i would say Sports.

[Boshamp]

I think that makes perfect sense, fitness to me means it was marketed directly as a means to stay in shape. While DDR and pretty much any Kinect title can wear me out, that wasn't there intention. ha ha

[tactical_nuke]

Breakout/Pong has been sorted and is now empty. Fire when ready.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Removed. Let me know if it causes any issues on game submissions or anything else after it's been removed.

[tactical_nuke]

Made some important edits and corrections to the guide. Also very close to having Unique sorted completely.

[tactical_nuke]

Unique has been completely sorted. Removal is ready to go.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Removed as requested. Also, added Homebrew as a Release Type.