Kayburt (32458) on 9/15/2022 11:11 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

There could be a new gameplay genre implemented called “Crafting / Merging”. This would apply to games where you need to follow sets of instructions to make something (such as cookery) in order to progress. It also applies to games where you merge things together throughout the game. Merging items is quite a popular gameplay on mobile and browser games. Crafting and merging are not exactly the same, but their use of mulitple items together make them pair nicely.

This gameplay genre would not apply to games in which crafting is done to create items to aid you in the game (such as new items in “Throne of Darkness”) because they are not the main part of the gameplay and are entirely optional. Merging would not apply to adventure games such as combining items because combining particular items together in an adventure game is often done to accomplish a greater goal (like combining beard, skull, underpants, snotty hanky and doll in the juju bag to create the voodoo doll to defeat Lechuck in Monkey Island 2) and not solely to merge even further.