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I think the other point is that no taxonomies are authoritative. Most of the arguing comes from either people trying to diminish the work of others with negativ
by meheleventyone 7y ago
I think the other point is that no taxonomies are authoritative. Most of the arguing comes from either people trying to diminish the work of others with negative descriptions or from people assuming others are trying to be authoritative rather than merely descriptive of their own work.
For everyone that doesn't think Minecraft is a game there are a bunch of people making, playing and talking about Sandbox Games.
- danShumway 7y agoThat's a really good point. One thing I try to get across to people when I'm talking about this is that not only are no taxonomies "official", but they even sometimes contradict each other, and that doesn't diminish their usefulness. All models are at best approximations of reality, all taxonomies are based on somewhat arbitrary distinctions. The point is what the model/taxonomy can do for you. So if you have two models that give different results when fed the same input, that doesn't necessarily mean that one of them is broken. It might mean they're optimizing for accuracy in different directions, and that you need to think about which model is more applicable to the current situation you're in. The game vs toy debate seems to get people more upset, I suspect in part because that was a debate used by some people who wanted to diminish the artistic value of Walking Simulators or other more experimental genres.
- meheleventyone 7y agoThis even goes outside games for example in biology and taxonomies of species. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_concept