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Commons:Categories for discussion/2012/09/Category:Dance video games

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::Hmm, Ö, u r right. that makes sense. But why there is no wiki-article called [[:en:Dance Video Game|Dance Video Game]]? And why many of the games listed under the [[:en:Category:Dance video games|Category:Dance video games]] are called ''Music video games'' or ''[[:en:Rhythm game|Rhythm game]]''. Btw: the last one is a sub-genre of [[:en:Action video games|Action video games]]. Difficult, isn't it? --[[User:W like wiki|W like wiki]] ([[User talk:W like wiki|talk]]) 15:28, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

::Hmm, Ö, u r right. that makes sense. But why there is no wiki-article called [[:en:Dance Video Game|Dance Video Game]]? And why many of the games listed under the [[:en:Category:Dance video games|Category:Dance video games]] are called ''Music video games'' or ''[[:en:Rhythm game|Rhythm game]]''. Btw: the last one is a sub-genre of [[:en:Action video games|Action video games]]. Difficult, isn't it? --[[User:W like wiki|W like wiki]] ([[User talk:W like wiki|talk]]) 15:28, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

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:'''Nutshell''': keep, it is a well defined and intuitive category. Commons differs from Wikipedias and there is need for categories that don't have and will never have their respective articles in any Wikipedia. '''LBDR''': Dance games are a type of music games and a type of rhythm games, with the very specific criterion of using one's body as a controller. I.e. a well defined subtype of music rhythm games. Guitar Hero and similar are also both music and rhythm games, but they simulate playing instruments. Then there are singing games, again a type of music games, but instead of a dummied version of an instrument, the player must produce the singing "as is" without, eh, mercy ;) I wouldn't call them rhythm games necessarily. As for non-music rhythm games there are at least the wasd version of DDR, probably some others as well, and similar minigames in RPGs and such (*grr*), and non-rhythm music games would include rare, and probably older, entries such as Super Mario Paint Composer (?), which in essence is a simple composer tool with sounds from Mario games. --[[User:Pitke|Pitke]] ([[User talk:Pitke|talk]]) 08:06, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

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