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# Which textadventures.co.uk category would best fit a stock market-like game?

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asked Jun 23 in Publishing by lightwriter (5 points)
edited Jun 23 by Dannii

It's, definitely, educational and simulation but since I'm limited to 1 category on textadventures, what do you think I should put it under when I'm ready to publish it?

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commented Jun 24 by Alex (486 points)
A game can be tagged with multiple categories, but this can only be done by an admin. If you drop me an email via the contact form on textadventures.co.uk I can retag it for you.

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answered Jun 24 by jaynabonne (141 points)
edited Jun 24 by jaynabonne

I was contemplating jokes about why a stock market game could be considered "fantasy" or even "comedy" (or perhaps "mystery"), but that wouldn't be helpful for you. :)

I've had a similar problem to this with writing, where a story might not fit so neatly into a genre, or it straddles multiple ones. Rather than suggest a category for you (since it's really arbitrary and ultimately up to you), I'll offer a strategy:

Rather than look at your game and see which categories it fits (which could be many), I'd look at the categories and see where you'd like your game to be, both in terms of any connotations you might have about the category and what kind of audience might choose that category.

In other words, choose the category that allows your desired audience to find it most easily. If you were looking for your game (or a game like yours), where would you look for it first?

Just my take.

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answered Jun 23 by hegemonkhan (161 points)

I think it fits better in educational... but that's probably not a good category to put your game into, if you want it to be played by people... laughs.

though generally 'simulation' is associated with its original games:

the old 'flight simulator' games on the really old computers.

if there's a 'strategy' category, that would be best.

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