Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam

• kip@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  i think i agree with this which means i only dislike roguelite as a top level category. in your mario tennis example it might go something like

  sports ¬ tennis ¬ arcade (as opposed to simulation)

  a mario tennis where it would be practically impossible to win a randomly generated tournament without grinding out some progression would be

  sports ¬ tennis ¬ roguelite

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  • my_hat_stinks@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think the issue you’re having is that you’re treating them as categories and subcategories, like most things it’s never that clean. It makes much more sense if you treat them as unordered tags. Arcade isn’t a subcategory of tennis.

    Say for instance you had a multiplayer racing simulator game, you could categorise that as multiplayer > racing > sim, but if you have a similar singleplayer game you have single player > racing > sim so clearly those aren’t just subcategories of single/multiplayer.
    You could try sim > racing > multiplayer, but what about your city building sims? Now it’s your middle category that didn’t work right.

    If they’re independent tags sim, racing, multiplayer you can change any one of them independently. If any one tag changes that changes how the game is played.

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    • kip@piefed.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      this makes sense, appreciate the perspective

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