Indra was here

[This page has been last updated on July 5, 2015]

I'm a lawyer. Don't call me an attorney, you stupid Americans. Country specific term. Learn diversity, you cultural neanderthals.

Member of the MG Alumni and MG approver (retired). Now lives in Facebook. Do visit the Unofficial MobyGames Troll Pub on Facebook when you have the chance.

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Gamegroups Stuff

• MobyGames Group wiki
  
• Game Group proposal: Gah.
• MobyGame Groups™ v1.5 (2013)
• Game Group Request Thread 5 (2010)
• Game Group Request Thread 4 (2010)
• Game Group Request Thread 3 (2009)
• Game Group Request Thread 2 (2009)
• Game Group Request Thread (2009)
• MobyGames™ Game Group Master List

If an approver suddenly feels the mood to create game groups, please PM me.

Legend

1. Gameplay Feature -- A specific gameplay-related feature subject to player manipulation.
2. Game Interface -- A graphical representation used to convey a specified mechanic or information.
3. Theme -- The primary background describing a game.
4. Setting -- The primary location of represented in the game.

Need separate game groups for:

• Gameplay Feature: Monster Capturing / Taming [status: fakked]
• Gameplay Feature: Monster Training [status: fakked]
• Gameplay Feature: Monster Breeding
• Gameplay Feature: Monster Splicing
• Gameplay Feature: Monster Evolution

The current monster group ist just dumb.

• Gameplay Feature: Character Development - Automatic Leveling [status: fakked]
• Gameplay Feature: Character Development - Skill Development [status: fixed] Renamed to repetition.
• Gameplay Feature: Character Development - Training [status: fixed]
• Gameplay feature: Character Development - Skill Distribution [status: ignoring]

Proposed Game Groups that have yet to be added
I've pretty much have an idea of the scope of the following game groups.

1. Character Creation: Class Selection
2. Character Creation: Gender Selection
3. Character Creation: Race Selection
4. Gameplay Feature: Aging [Done!]
5. Gameplay Feature: Armor / Weapon Deterioration [Done!]
6. Gameplay Feature: Arena Fighting [Done!]
7. Gameplay Feature: Bestiary
8. Gameplay Feature: Body Dragging [Done!]
9. Gameplay Feature: Botany, Farming, Gardening [Done!]
10. Gameplay Feature: Burden / Encumbrance [Done!]
11. Gameplay Feature: Cannibalism [Done!]
12. Gameplay Feature: Carpentry
13. Gameplay Feature: Civil Titles [not enough games]
14. Gameplay Feature: Collectible Items [forgot what this means]
15. Gameplay Feature: Crime
16. Gameplay Feature: Crossbow [parameters confusing]
17. Gameplay Feature: Day / Night Cycle [Done!]
18. Gameplay Feature: Divorce [Ignore for now]
19. Gameplay Feature: Drug Addiction [Done!]
20. Gameplay Feature: Dynasty / Family Tree
21. Gameplay Feature: Emotions / Mood
22. Gameplay Feature: Encyclopedia
23. Gameplay Feature: Equipment Quick Slots (or just Quick Slots)
24. Gameplay Feature: Exportable Characters
25. Gameplay Feature: Fog of War [Done!]
26. Gameplay Feature: Bowyering / Fletching
27. Gameplay Feature: Kill List
28. Gameplay Feature: House Ownership [Done!]
29. Gameplay Feature: Marriage
30. Gameplay Feature: Medals
31. Gameplay Feature: Military Rank
32. Gameplay Feature: Mounted Combat
33. Gameplay Feature: Multiple Endings [Done!]
34. Gameplay Feature: Radiation / Radioactive Poisoning [Done!]
35. Gameplay Feature: Slavery / Slaves [Done!]
36. Gameplay Feature: Technology Tree
37. Gameplay Feature: Upgradeable Anatomy
38. Mythology: Ancient Egyptian
39. Mythology: Celtic
40. Mythology: Sumerian
41. Protagonist: Deity (possible conflict with God Games)
42. Protagonist: Child
43. Protagonist: Fruit / Vegetable [Done!]
44. Protagonist: Household Appliance
45. Protagonist: Spy [possible conflict with theme]
46. Protagonist: Superhero (excluding? popular franchises i.e. DC and Marvel)
47. Protagonist: Werewolf [possible conflict with theme]
48. Protagonist: Vampire Hunter
49. Protagonist: Zombie [possible conflict with theme]
50. Configurable Multi-Window Interface
51. Controversial - Copy Protection: SecuROM DRM
52. Controversial - Copy Protection: StarForce DRM
53. Screensavers

Game Groups that are still Work-in-Progress Indefinitely / Bad Idea / List First Think Later

1. Gameplay Feature: Achievements
2. Gameplay Feature: Anatomical Targeting [Done!] Merged to Targeting System.
3. Gameplay Feature: Animal Husbandry
4. Gameplay Feature: Body Mass (what the hell is this supposed to be?)
5. Gameplay Feature: Customized Ships / Vehicles
6. Gameplay Feature: Decapitation
7. Gameplay Feature: Diplomacy
8. Gameplay Feature: Divorce
9. Gameplay Feature: Dynasty
10. Gameplay Feature: Electronic Targeting [Done!] Merged to Targeting System.
11. Gameplay Feature: First Person - Archery
12. Gameplay Feature: First Person - Crossbow
13. Gameplay Feature: Female Armor
14. Gameplay Feature: Finishing Move
15. Gameplay Feature: Hairstyle
16. Gameplay Feature: Head shot
17. Gameplay Feature: Horse Riding
18. Gameplay Feature: Skill Stealing
19. Gameplay Feature: Suicide
20. Gameplay Feature: Tattoos
21. Gameplay Feature: Torture [Done!]
22. Gameplay Feature: Password Protection
23. Gameplay Feature: Reputation / Relations - Personal
24. Gameplay Feature: Reputation / Relations - Global
25. Gameplay Feature: Obesity / Skinny / Need Better Name
26. Developer Rooms
27. Faction: Nazi Germany / Third Reich
28. Faction: Imperial Japan
29. Mandatory Character Switching
30. Theme: Mail Delivery
31. Theme: Tournament

Game Groups Under Personal Attention

• Gameplay feature: Alchemy
• Gameplay feature: Blacksmithing
• Gameplay feature: Fishing
• Gameplay feature: Hunger / Thirst
• Gameplay feature: Hunting
• Gameplay feature: Mining
• Gameplay feature: Survival cooking
• Gameplay feature: Armor / Weapon sets
• Gameplay feature: Auto-mapping
• Gameplay feature: Freely destructible terrain
• Gameplay feature: Importable characters
• Gameplay feature: Drawing
• Gameplay feature: Gambling
• Gameplay feature: Photography
• Gameplay feature: Brothels
• Games with profane titles
• Games with code-wheel copy protection
• Games with manual lookup copy protection
• Games in which you can have children
• Genre: Simulation - Castle / Fortress building
• Genre: Simulation - City building
• Games with randomly generated environments
• Diablo variants --> Variants: Diablo
• DC Universe
• Marvel universe
• Gameplay Feature: Character development - Automatic leveling --> Gameplay Feature: Character Development - Automatic Leveling
• Gameplay Feature: Character development - Skill development / training --> Should be separated.
• Gameplay Feature: Character development - Skill distribution --> Gameplay Feature: Character Development - Skill Distribution
• Gameplay feature: Monster capture / training --> Should be separated.

Game group issues that need to be fixed

1. Cameo
   Games with Dopefish --> Cameo: Dopefish
2. Inspiration
   Inspiration: Horror movies --> Inspiration: Movies - Horror
3. Inspiration: Author, Inspiration: Book and Fictional Character
   
   Categorical conflict with each other and with Protagonist.
4. Setting (somewhat confusing)
   • Categorical confusion due to inability to correctly identify differences between time, location, adjectives, and a specified event.
   • Setting: African --> Setting: Africa
   • Setting: Australian / Oceanian --> Setting: Pacific
   • Setting: Japanese Kamakura Period --> Setting: Japan - Kamaruka Period
   • Setting: Japanese Sengoku Period --> Setting: Japan - Sengoku Period
   • Setting: Chinese Qin Dynasty --> Setting: China - Qin Dynasty
   • Setting: Chinese Qing Dynasty --> Setting: China - Qing Dynasty
   • Setting: Chinese Ming Dynasty --> Setting; China - Ming Dynasty
   • Setting: Chinese Song Dynasty --> Setting: China - Song Dynasty
   • Setting: Chinese Yuan Dynasty --> Setting: China - Yuan Dynasty
   • Setting: Chinese Three Kingdoms era --> Setting: China - Three Kingdoms Period
   • Setting: Chinese Warring States Period --> In conflict with Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
   • Setting: Indian --> Setting: India
   • Setting: Interwar --> Seems out of place.
   • Setting: Chinese --> Setting: China
   • Setting: Egyptian --> Setting: Egypt
   • Setting: Korean --> Setting: Korea
   • Setting: Mayan --> Setting: Maya
   • Setting: Medieval Europe
   • Setting: Middle East
   • Setting: Western / Old West --> Setting: North America - Western / Old West
5. Theme All theme titles fixed. I think. Should be removed / renamed
   • [Game title] adaptations
   • [Game title] adventures
   • [Game title] conversions
   • [Game title] episodes
   • [Game title] label
   • [Game title] legacy
   • [Game title] translations
   • [Game title] trilogy
   • [Game title] universe