Rich Freeman wrote: > Just what do wumpus (talk about a blast from the past), a game "in the > spirit of nethack," and a Leisure Suit Larry spinoff have in common?
I'd say it's that they focus on exploration. > I imagine most games have some kind of adventure sense to them. Puzzles and 52-card games maybe not so much, but I think a good metric is how much the gameplay focuses on the adventure/exploration compared to other elements. But - deciding whether a game is an adventure game or not is fortunately nothing that Gentoo needs to concern itself with, this is already done by the publisher, and I think that everybody interested in a game (dunno if Diego is one?) already knows what category they consider it to belong to. Gentoo should where possible not introduce elements of surprise, but simply model categories according to how the world *already* organizes them. I don't think anyone can dispute that there exists a genre called adventure games.. (Much like there exists a software genre called X11 window managers..) //Peter
