Plok (221065) on 3/30/2023 2:42 PM · Permalink · Report

Again, if it's not a game, it has no place here.

Kayburt (32676) on 6/28/2023 7:12 AM · Permalink · Report

Another point is that an application has to have a game-related genre such as action or sports to qualify. But then you have borderline games that fit into the educational genre with their own sub-genre “word processing”. If “Mario Teaches Typing” counts as a game, can the same be said for “Microsoft Word”. Not necessarily. The former has a score count and a way to win and lose. The latter has neither of those characteristics and is not restricted by any game rules, just the number of tools you can utilize to produce a word document.

Winning and losing might also not be a final characteristic to determine a game. There are adventure games where you can’t die or reach a dead end, and therefore cannot lose such as “Day of the Tentacle”. And there are continuous games with no real ending or victory, you just win levels. In utilities, you don’t really have anything to lose or win in the way it works.