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Other Games, Development, & Campaigns => Design, Development, and Gameplay => Topic started by: Gladen on December 23, 2007, 12:33:18 PM

Title: Is there a genre definitive genre list anywhere?
Post by: Gladen on December 23, 2007, 12:33:18 PM
Was just wondering about it...

I mean we all bandy about Sword & Sorcery, Medieval Fantasy, Cyber Punk, Space Opera, Modern, Horror, etc....but is ther a list of classification fo rhtese?
Title: Is there a genre definitive genre list anywhere?
Post by: Skyrock on December 23, 2007, 03:04:07 PM
The closest thing would be the "Genre by medium"-category in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Genres_by_medium

It would however probably demand a bit of a weed-out to find the genres that actually matter in role-playing... For instance, I doubt that Romantic Comedy plays a role apart from story-games ;)
Title: Is there a genre definitive genre list anywhere?
Post by: John Morrow on December 23, 2007, 04:05:11 PM
Quote from: GladenWas just wondering about it...

I mean we all bandy about Sword & Sorcery, Medieval Fantasy, Cyber Punk, Space Opera, Modern, Horror, etc....but is ther a list of classification fo rhtese?

There is a nice two-tiered hierarchy of film genres here:

http://www.filmsite.org/genres.html
http://www.filmsite.org/subgenres.html
http://www.filmsite.org/subgenres2.html (This one, in particular)
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