🔖 Discuss tag simulation

[rwarnking]

Define and discuss the basics of this tag.

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07.05.2024 Discussion

Games in general simulate certain situations, but some games focus more on that than others. Some games use a considerate amount of resources to simulate its content in every detail to get as near as possible to reality. This might be useful to indicate via a tag. Unfortunately it is difficult to define what a simulation is and what not.

Open questions

07.05:

• [x] Is it defined via the level of detail?
• [x] How relevant is realism?
• [x] How relevant is the correctness of the simulation (numbers)?
• [x] What is the difference to a strategy game?
• [x] Example Prison Architect (Building game)
• [x] Does this depend on the internal gamelogic?
• [x] Is there a difference between how the game works and how I have to solve the problems?

[rwarnking]

18.10.2024 Discussion

Defining a simulation is kind of hard, since almost all games have a simulation component and all games simulate something, be it life in a certain time period or an environment.

• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
• Gone Home
• Overcooked
• Landwirtschafts-Simulator 25

Our currently best proposal was to compose this tag using others but in general it is currently not possible for us to indicate the realism or simulation aspect of a game. This can be improved in the future.

[rwarnking]

Based on the discussion of the 18.10.2024 this issue was closed. These Follow up issues were created:

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