How about a game board?

jdc (52) in chainbb • 8 years ago

Chess/Go/Shogi games, Roleplay, Gaming group planning, Game Reviews, All things gaming really.

8 years ago by jdc (52)

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jesta (71) · 8 years ago

Just FYI - I went ahead and added a games forum :)

Let me know if you find any additional tags that merit adding.

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jdc (52) · 8 years ago

I'm just getting better enough to spend time online again, this is a great thing to come back to. Thanks man.

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jdc (52) · 8 years ago

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jesta (71) · 8 years ago

I haven't done much research on which tags are used for gaming, have any insight into that or are you just wanting a section to talk about games? :)

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jdc (52) · 8 years ago

There's the general gaming tag. I suspect gamereview, roleplay, chess, go, shogi will all become popular quickly on a forum board. Game review might already have some traction. Go, chess, and shogi all have a notation format that allows them to be played through text quite easily.

The format of steemit makes playing such games cumbersome, a forum layout would facilitate things a lot. With the large (and growing) Korean community in sure Go will take off (though I'm not sure of what the Korean tag would be)

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jesta (71) · 8 years ago

I haven't acted on adding them yet because I feel "gaming" and "games" as a whole needs some studying, or at least some smaller scale experiments. The tags right now are cluttered up and not incredibly focused, which makes using generic tags turn into a very unfocused and busy forum.

As a gamer myself - this is something I want to see.

A few thoughts:

If it's a forum where users can actually play a game (turned base, chess/go/etc), maybe picking one game to begin with and try to build a community around that would be a good start. It feels like each game should really be it's own forum in the end as well, but I'm not sure if that's how to start it.
If it's a general "games" forum, should it be broken into multiple forums by game type? Digital, Role Playing, Board Games, etc.
Do we have any large enough game communities for game-specific forums?

All things I'm thinking about. It feels like gaming might be able to be it's own section of the forums (with multiple boards) or even it's own website.

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jdc (52) · 8 years ago

If we don't already have the community here, it won't be long before we do.
@whatageek is doing pretty good at bringing all the gamers together, though I don't think there's any standard tag discipline yet.

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