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Originally Posted by andrewfblack View Post
I personall don't like hte table since it kinda crames alot of data on a site that really isn't that wide to start with.
Well, it doesn't cram much data, actually; mainly the space is taken up by ridiculously verbose and redundant descriptions. But I see where the main use of lateral space is (which exacerbates the wastage), and I'm gonna go fix it right now.

EDIT: Now it displays well in portrait on my N800 (at 100% zoom); I think that should be good? (The tallest entry is only 5 lines high.) BTW, all these long url auto-links are the main thing preventing it from working well on narrow screens; is there a reason not to wikify them?

Still, some editorial work is needed on those descriptions; I don't want to get involved in that, a debate over formatting is sufficient without heating things up with content editing.
As far as what games a strategy, board and puzzles. Well strategy are normally games like Civ, Age of Empires and stuff like that. Board games are well board games like Chess, Checkers, and puzzles are stuff like bejeweled, pac man and such.
Pacman is puzzles? I'd have taken it to be arcade. What about strategy games played on boards? To me it seems that, while the lines between these may not be quite clear, they all (except pacman) are distinct from arcade/action games. So I was thinking they might be subcategories...

But I don't know; don't really care either.
Game engine needs it own category becuase well you need more then just he engine to play the game you need the data file for the game as well. I would put it with emulators but its not really an emulator.
But how is this page trying to be organized? By genre, or by technical requirements? Both is not good, it makes it difficult to find the games you want because they could be in either place. And what about game engines like lxdoom, that come with a shareware version of the files? The "need" for a separate category seems to dissolve here, but people may look in the game engine category anyway, knowing that it is a game engine, and not knowing that the wad is included.

Also using the table like you did it doesn't put each game on the contents which once you get several hundred games on here you would want them all listed in the contents.
I suppose we could put up a poll on this, but I think very few people really think having a several-hundred-line TOC is a good idea. What would be the point of that? (I'm really open to explanations, but I can see no reason it's helpful.)

Last edited by Benson; 2008-05-07 at 15:35.
 

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