<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<br><br>I recently discovered both debtags and Goplay and I am really excited about both projects and would like to help tagging games. I already contacted Miriam about Goplay, but since she is busy these days I'll ask the debtag related doubts here.<br>
<br>I've seen that the current strategy for tagging games goes in the line of genres, I am also aware of OpenRating. There are some other game characteristics that are important too according to the questions one can find in Linux gaming forums. I would like to think a different approach to later propose it for inclusion. I'm throwing these doubts here to test my understanding of debtags and your expectations.<br>
<br>Let's say that I would like to find multi-player games.<br><br>This question can be partially answered with the network::client and network::server tags, but it doesn't cove hotseat games (players share same computer).<br>
<br>Would tags like game::singleplayer / game::multiplayer / game::multiplayer:network / game:: multiplayer:hotseat be OK acording to debtags filosophy? <br><br>Do the network::* tags make game::multiplayer:network redundant?<br>
<br>Also, some games are useless without a network connection, as I understand it debtags say "it _allows_" [playing through network], so how do I kown "it _needs_ " [a network]? Would that be implicit in the absence of both game::singleplayer and game::multiplayer:hotseat tags?<br>
<br>On the other hand does it make sense to put at the same level a tag like game::multiplayer and a tag like game::puzzle? They answer to different questions, genres would be better under game::genre:* but since debtags only allows 2 levels (right?) a tag like game::genre:board:chess couldn't exist. I'm confused.<br>
<br>I see anyway some problems with the current approach even without the introduction of the word 'genre', to be precise game::fps would belong to something like game::action:shooter:fps according to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_genres">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_genres</a> and I agree, for me it makes little sense to find Openarena both under action games and FPS, since these answer to the same question and are not mutually exclusive, but that is the current approach. I am very confused.<br>
<br>To be sincere, I am not a big fan of genres and the idea I have in mind is that you could find a FPS by the combination of questions like '3d enviroment', 'subjective camera' and 'the objetive is to kill' which seem more debtags-friendly, but these real life questions should help me understand it all better.<br>
<br>Another thing. Apparently only Adept (a KDE package manager) allows using NOT witg debtags (maybe command line tools too? haven't tested), but neither debtags-edit nor the WebUI seem to allow that, since these are more or less the 'official' tools I ask myself if I am not understanding something really wrong about debtags. Is this just a ToDo feature in the tools or is it a conceptual decision that I don't get?<br>
<br>Thank you,<br><br>Osoitz<br></div>