What am I getting myself into…
the following might be a bit of a messy explaination, I’m tired, heading to bed, but if it can sit here an extra few hours for people to react to before I try to work with it tomorrow, that can only be great. might read over and re-word some things tomorrow. bear with me.
with that out of the way:
As the wiki is still being set up, and I’m taking a tiny break, I’ve begun to wonder about tagging.
Right now, on the forum, there are already quite a few tags, and I already don’t know which ones to pick half the time.
Now, I’m wanting to look at games, figure out how to exactly tag them, and do them justice on the wiki.
Thus, I was wondering what tags people generally look for, and what they hope to find, or expect to find, and what they are still missing.
Including, but not limited to:
- how would you define the tag? - an “obvious” definition to you might be less obvious for some others
- how much of said tag should be in a game? - a single mention in a large game might not be enough
Unless I’m really, really bad at searching, I just felt like we didn’t really have general… definitions. And while a lot of tags to kind of speak for themselves, or can technically be looked up and taken as a “close enough” I do think setting a few pointers on what people really look for, and thus what tags we should really take into consideration when… well, tagging, could be nice.
I also want to mention the wiki allows for a bit of extra customization. (I say a “bit”, but really, sky’s the limit)
So what things would you add to tagging in general, and how would it affect your search?
I was personally already thinking of tagging tags as minor/normal/major (not 100% worked out, but in a nutshell:)
- Big game, single mention? - Minor
- Small game, single mention? - Possibly just normal (2 minute game 1 mention stuff)
- Occasional mention? - Normal
- Core of the game loop? - Definitely Major
Adding those should, I think, already add some depth.
And what tags are you missing or hoping to see? there might be some games out there already, and if I got some extra things to look out for? All here for it.
With that, can someone here explain me when I should tag with “anthro” and when with “furry”? surely here someone has something to say about that one…