Talk:Games

Should we add here that there is now confirmed commercial support for the pandora? Magicman5421

If one of the indie game houses has an anouncement on their site that we can link to, then yes. Otherwise, wait for something to be available or at least officially announced. Though if you want to make up a template for game entries, by all means :) Chip 04:31, 3 September 2008 (CEST)

subdividing released games

at this point it may be worthwhile to further dividing the released games into lists which would allow someone who is looking for a game to find it on the list faster. Any ideas for how to split them up? The most obvious way would be type of game, shooter, strategy, platformer, etc.
--Cheese 22:58, 12 July 2010 (MEST)

Why would you want to do this? I am heavily against the proposal. You can already sort them by category. Note in the introduction: "Please click on the little squares to sort by different categories.". You can sort by genre, or by release date (useful, because you can see what's new since you last visited). Esn 13:27, 15 July 2010 (MEST)

Well, it's a long list that will only be getting longer. I suppose it really doesn't matter, though. Another way to split it up would be original games (made by members of the community) and ports. This could actually be more useful since you can't easily see that right now. I guess you could add another column for that and then be able to sort it though. --Cheese 20:20, 15 July 2010 (MEST)

I think that everything should be sorted by columns. As soon as you create separate lists, you break at least one of the things you can sort by. If you separate by genre, you can't sort by date anymore. Anyway, lists like this can become quite long before they get unmanageable. i.e. here's another project that I'm involved in. Esn 00:35, 16 July 2010 (MEST)

Separating original games and ports could be useful. There's an easy way it could be done right now - either create a new column, as you said, or simply move the "port" to before the author's name. That way when you click "sort" on author, all the ports will be in one place. The only possibly bad thing about this is that original games and ports by the same author will be in two separate places (a third way that avoids this problem is putting "Port" as the first thing in the "notes" column if it's a port). Also, is it always clear what is original and what is a port, or can there be some confusion sometimes? (something in between?) Esn 00:44, 16 July 2010 (MEST)

After considering the options, I think it makes the most sense to create another column. I can see three possibilities for classing the game: Community made (port or otherwise), Port of Commercial game (eg. Doom, Quake, ROTT, Hexen, etc.), and port of free game (Supertux, Battle for Wesnoth, etc). But I don't know what the header of it would be. --Cheese 03:02, 16 July 2010 (MEST)