Help me create a Taxonomy for Videogames!

[Distant Star]

LGF said:

Distant Star said:

I've been looking into steam tags to come up with dimensions to quickly find games that I want to play.

Example: Single Player, First-Person, Shooter, Cyberpunk = Deus Ex: GOTY

5 Dimensions

Great hints! Let's go step by step.

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I feel like this is the first choice when you decide what to play. (if you don't know what to play) 

Examples: Single Player, Local Multiplayer, Multiplayer, Co-op, Local Co-op, Splitscreen

I'm not sure it's always the first choice, but certainly one of the most critical dimensions.

This is Dimension 6 (Players). All those categories are there, execpt Splitscreen, which I belive would be a sub-sub category.

Camera perspective is important to be it's own dimension

Examples: First Person, Third Person, Isometric, 2Dimensions

This is Dimension 4 (Space dimensions). Again, all categories are there.

(Gameplay) 

This describes what gameplay mechanics should be in the game.

Examples: Shooter, Racing, Stealth, Simulation, Survival, Turn Based etc.

This is broken in different dimensions: Dimension 10 (Challenge), 3 (Interaction Time) and 11 (Realism). Once again, all categories are there, even if more aggregated.

-Universe-

This describes the gameworld based on an (alternative) timeline

Examples: Prehistoric/Mythology/Medieval/History/WOII/Cyberpunk/Sci-Fi/Space/Horror/Fantasy/Surreal/Supernatural

This would be Dimension 12 (Theme). But I realize that it could be broken in additional dimensions, such as: Time, Space and Atmosphere. I'm going to update the Taxonomy, and then let me know what you think about it.

Aestetics

This one describes artstyle, but many games with 'realistic artstyle' are not tagged.

Examples: Pixels. Anime, Cartoon, Abstract

This could be an additional dimension either for Environment or Content. But it could also be seen as part of Dimension 11 (Realism). I'm not sure where to put it.

Regarding the categories, I see then Realistic, Cartoon (which would include Anime) and Pixels. I didn't understand the difference to Abstract. :S

Splitscreen is indeed a sub sub category. Online-Co-op is one I should have added.

Multiplayer>Competative>Online Multiplayer>Splitscreen
Multiplayer>Competative>Local Multiplayer>Splitscreen

Multiplayer>Co-op>Online Co-op>Splitscreen
Multiplayer>Co-op>Local Co-op>Splitscreen

Aestetics is a bad one because many games go for an realistic artstyle, however it's not tagged by gamers or devs as such. I checked on steam and abstract are games like Kairo and Anti-Chamber. Maybe another way to describe absract is to say minimalistic?

I got Aestetics from these 3 dimesions: Game Mechanics, Game Dynamics and Game Aestetics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDA_framework

I just went with aestetics = artstyle, but it's actually someting totally different.