ALSO - BRAINSTORM WITH ME FOR A SEC - different combinations for cats - and also icons for the big categories
Table-Top Games/Miniatures War Games
D&D, Vampire:The Masquerade, Inquisitor, Warhammer 40000, WarMachine, Babylon5: A Call to Arms
CCG (Collector Carg Games)
yu-gi-oh, PokeMon, Magic: the Gathering, Poker
-- Could those not all fall under Table top? Or are CCG players insulted by that?
Although CCg is played on a tabletop surface it is a completely different type of collecting/playing style. Now Granted, if we needed to narrow down the categories we could merge these two together, but With the NUMEROUS amount of CCG's out there, it is (in all honesty) best to seperate it.
Live Action Role Playing Games
Dingeons and Dragons, Vampire: the Requium, Werewolf, Legend of the 5 rings
-- Role playing games or pen and paper - or is PnP a bad impression of LARPing / etc?
Unfortunatly LARPers and PnPers are NOT one and the same. there is a big rift between these two type of gamers. this rift has unfortunatly caused many a FLAME war on forums and boards (had to clean up two today) so I Honestly would not Group these two categories together at all.
PC Games -
Starcraft, world of Warcraft, EQ, Call of Duty 4, Need for Speed
Console Games -
PS2, X-Box 360, X-box, Wii, PS3, DS, PSP
Arcade Games -
Soul Calibur, Initial D, Time Crisis 3, DDR
-- Usually this is broken up Computer / Console / AC. I was thinking - digital? Electronic?
What do you mean "digital?" and "Electronic?" I don't think I am understanding you. Although now that I look at it, we may want to split off the psp and DS away from the "Console Games" category and give them their own "Hand held" Category.
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Icons - we could do a ball style joystick on a old atari style controller to cover 'digital' - as all 3 can yea.
pen and pad for pen and paper / dnd / larping? (goes back to the whole larping falling into pnp or not)
A board with several types of cards, a figure, and various peices?
Of course, that's simplifying things down to 3 categories... And would those cat's play nicely together as well.
(AC and console don't always get along, what about LARP vs DnD vs?)
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You know I like the idea of adding an Icon, to posts so that when browsing the forums you could only hit the noney you're VERY intrested in. I like that idea alot, but if we're gonna do categories, we should have one Icon per category. ALTHOUGH... if you want to start off with only 3 icons and them move to 5-7 that could work as well, just to see how the site will like it.