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DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
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#1: Jul 26th 2011 at 10:22:07 AM

The Game/ namespace has a controller for an icon, but as many games are being moved to VideoGame/ pages, I feel the icon should be swapped.

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#2: Jul 26th 2011 at 4:04:39 PM

Use a chess piece or something as the Game icon.

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Hydronix I'm an Irene! from TV Tropes Since: Apr, 2010
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#4: Jul 26th 2011 at 6:42:04 PM

Except Chess is a tabletop game. How about any controller? Like an NES controller or something.

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#5: Jul 26th 2011 at 6:50:26 PM

Chess is not a Tabletop Game. Or at least not what we class there.

That said, they're talking about moving the icon from the Game/ namespace (a controller) and replacing it with a chesspiece so they can move the controller to the Video Game/ namespace.

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#6: Jul 26th 2011 at 6:52:30 PM

Well, what kinds of games are there? I've been under the impression that there's Table Top Game and Video Game and that's it. Plain Game was an old Namespace wasn't it?

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Hydronix I'm an Irene! from TV Tropes Since: Apr, 2010
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#7: Jul 26th 2011 at 6:54:15 PM

I always thought Board Games and Tabletop Games were grouped together. I didn't know Tabletop was meant for the Pen and Paper games(and others) instead. My bad.

But yeah, a controller is more apparent it's a video game. And the NES controller is very easy to create an icon for, and is pretty iconic.

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#8: Jul 26th 2011 at 7:00:46 PM

Game/ is for things that don't fit into either of the other two like Collectible Card Games and Arkham Horror.

edited 26th Jul '11 7:01:30 PM by shimaspawn

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#9: Jul 26th 2011 at 7:06:03 PM

Should we have a card then?

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Hydronix I'm an Irene! from TV Tropes Since: Apr, 2010
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#10: Jul 26th 2011 at 7:07:23 PM

...Oh, god, I totally misread the whole thing. I thought you were looking for a Video Game icon. And what are the current icons for each type of gaming?

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#11: Jul 26th 2011 at 7:12:48 PM

Just the controller on Game/ The new ones, Tabletop Game/ and Videogame/ are fairly new and were split when we started name spacing everything and there were big collisions with things like Pokemon.

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