Game Scoring, Tagging and Classification System


Game tagging and scoring system used on this page

Allowed characters are letters, numbers, and underscores 
As the ones that Twitter allows in hashtags. 
https://www.hashtags.org/featured/what-characters-can-a-hashtag-include/
  • Rating
      • https://medium.com/@lonely_astronaut/the-10-point-review-scale-is-terrible-a14f7c7a1099
      • https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1427309/pondering-5-star-vs-10-point-rating-systems
      • While I agree with both above articles, the truth is that users does not understand 5 stars rating. In the end, there are always halve stars added. Additionally, when the rating is 7 than everyone knows that it is 7 of 10. Rating 5 provides a confusion: Is it 5 of 5? Or 5 of 10?
    • rating_10 - masterpiece
    • rating_9 - very good game
    • rating_8 - good
    • rating_7 - nice to play
    • rating_6 - it's ok
    • rating_5 - average
    • rating_4 - could be - lower rated games would not be reviewed
    • rating_3 - poor
    • rating_2 - bad
    • rating_1 - awfull  
  • Optional gameplay time tag if it is not defined by genre 
    • real_time
    • turn_based
    • chrono - game that goes with global world clock. Like OGame and travian
  • Genre - main genre of the game as in
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_genre
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_genres
    • action
    • adventure
    • fighting
    • platform
    • puzzle
    • racing
    • rpg
    • shooter
    • simulation
    • sports
    • strategy
    • misc
  • Devices
    • pc
    • android
    • xbox
  • Number of players tags
    • pvp
    • coop
    • local_coop
    • singleplayer - if game contains single player campaign
  • Game theme
    • fantasy
    • ancient
    • medieval
    • pirate
    • wild_west
    • renaissance
    • ww2
    • ww1
    • modern
    • scifi
  • Free :)
    • free - game is completely free. There might be advertisements and micropayments, but the game is playable for free.
    • free, free_demo - both tags together - Only demo is free but still demo alone is worth playing as the full game.
    • free_demo - only demo is free 
    • occasionally_free - generally this is paid game, but it was on free promotion by multiple times and will probably be free agiain.
  • Other game genres, from main genre and additional genres such as
    • tactics
    • trading
  • Release year
    • year_2016
  • Other features
    • cloudsave
    • autosave - if game is saved often enough to turn it off any time