Genre & Subgenre Guide

[mumboking]

Also, added Homebrew as a Release Type.

Might as well show the release type on the pages while you're at it, or is it not worth doing?

[tactical_nuke]

^That would probably help with sorting. Also thanks Shadow.

[Duke.Togo]

Will all the current Homebrew genre games be switched over?

[tactical_nuke]

My plan was to give all the titles sitting in the Homebrew genre their proper genres and change their release types to homebrew at the same time. That being said, making release type searchable would enable users to find homebrews once the genre is removed.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Flee...as a staff member, you can search for Release Types:
http://www.rfgeneration.c...p?action=gameedit;sa=edit

I think we didn't make them public because they're not fully implemented yet.

[tactical_nuke]

Ah, I didn't notice that. Thanks for pointing that out.

[Izret101]

I just noticed Fortune Telling was under simulator.
I edited some Fortune Telling/Astroligical symbol style earlier as Non-Game. Doesn't it seem like they would better fit there? I wouldn't consider entering a couple bits of information a Simulation game.


Real reason i came here.
Just used
Genre: Action/Adventure
Subgenre: Action, Strategy, Time Management

For Cake Mama.
Those Diner Dash style games certainly qualify as HEAVILY action based but i wanted to also see what others thoughts were on it.

EDIT
Diner Dash specifically is in the DB right now as Action/Adventure, Puzzle, Strategy, Misc, and Simulator. Misc is getting removed and i can't see why it would be in there as a Simulator either.
Action, Strat and Puzzle i could all see an argument being made for. But puzzle IMO isn't really any more fitting than Simulator.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Honestly, I've been waiting to pull the trigger on having concrete options since I've not been given a list of specific subgenres for each Genre. If you guys could come up with that list, we can get moving on the standardization, and adding new subgenres would be a quick DB edit.

[Izret101]

There is a pretty decent list going now. If you added a checkbox or multi select(like the "sub-regions") based on what it listed now wouldn't it be easy enough to add or subtract from that list in the days, months or years to come?

Also adding that function would not remove the text currently entered in Subgenre fields (so they could still be standardized with limited further research) but would force the new standard on all new additions to the site.

[Tynstar]

Pull the damn trigger already

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Pulling the trigger, for what I'm attempting to do, requires that all of the existing Subgenres are accounted for. It won't be an editable list - just a multiselect list, and new Subgenres would need to be added directly to the DB.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Subgenre: Vapid Model Sim

HAHAHAH

http://www.rfgeneration.c...nfo.pl?ID=U-132-S-11160-A&
http://www.rfgeneration.c...nfo.pl?ID=U-087-S-15930-A&

[Izret101]

Scott already fixed one of them.
I truly felt it was the most accurate description of the game after watching a 3 minute vid done by some chick at Mahalo(who apparently don't just do walkthroughs)

[Shadow Kisuragi]

I was tempted to just leave it, because it made it laugh.

[tactical_nuke]

I guess fortune telling would fit better under non-game. As for those waiting games, I'd say they fit good as strategy games.

Pulling the trigger, for what I'm attempting to do, requires that all of the existing Subgenres are accounted for.

That might take a while. Alot of the subgenres that aren't on the guide are specific ones that I just haven't come across. Do you have a way of pulling a list of unique subgenres currently being used in the DB? With that list, it would just be a matter of looking through and pulling the legit subgenres out. The spelling doubles and unnecessary ones are just left out and deleted when the switch to selectable subgenres happens... Or something like that.