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Tags are used to classify and organize games in Flashpoint for easier searching.  Here, they have been organised into categories.  You may use multiple tags per game, and you can use any of the category headers from ''Action'' to ''Other'' and ''Game Jam'' as tags too. Tags can be applied to either games or animations, but the most common [[#Animations|Animation tags]] are listed in their own section for your convenience. If there is a tag that you feel would be useful, please ask a Staff Member on the Discord server, and we'll see if it's something that should be added.  We don't want tags to be too specific, to the point where a tag exists solely for one game.

 

 

 

| Beat 'Em Up

| A shooter played from the point of view of the character firing the weapon.

| A shooter played with a viewpoint that moves automatically, with no input available to the player.

| Any game where you use projectiles to shoot enemies.

| Endless War 3

| Move your cursor to shoot targets, and rack up lots of points. The playing field is usually stationary, but can sometimes move from scene to scene.

| Choose a path at specific junctions and see where the story takes you. Typically has a linear story where making the same choices leads to the same outcome.

| Dating Simulator

| Pick options to take boys, girls, etc. on dates.

| A subset of adventure games where you're in a single room or low amount of rooms, a general lack of story, and puzzles to solve to get out of it.

| Role-Playing

| Explore a world, solve puzzles, and fight in these adventure games. May or may not have detailed character stats.

| Collect items or complete tasks for a non-playable character, sometimes in a chain involving multiple characters.

| The Legend of Zelda and the Lampshade of No Real Significance

| Survival

| Gather resources, craft items, build shelters, and/or manage vitals in order to fend off against enemies. Usually open-world with no other goals.

| Coldgrip

| Balancing

| A game where you primarily click to increase numbers.<br/>Not to be confused with the <code>Idle</code> tag.

| Throw a character into the air and get as far as possible. Often accompanied with the <code>Upgrade</code> tag as you buy upgrades to shoot yourself further next time.<br/>Not to be confused with the <code>Toss</code> tag.

| Games specifically based on Pong. Other paddle-based games will most likely use either the <code>Brick Breaker</code> or <code>Pinball</code> tag.

| A game based on the classic three-way head-to-head mind game.

| Control a line that typically grows in length, collecting objects without colliding into yourself. Inspired by Snake.

| Drop pieces onto a grid-based playing field to form lines across the entire grid. Inspired by Tetris.<br/>If a game isn't based on Tetris, but still involves dropping tiles vertically, see the <code>Vertical Drop</code> tag.

| Games where you toss or launch a character or object to destroy terrain, reach a location, or collect items. Famous examples of this tag are games based on Angry Birds.<br/>Not to be confused with the <code>Launch</code> tag.

== Card ==

Games where the gameplay revolves around using cards. Some are accompained by the <code>Gambling</code> tag.

| Ace Trumps

| A card game where players pick and compare the stats of cards.

| Dueling Decks

| Blackjack

| A comparing card game between one or more players and a dealer.

| Blackjack 21

| Collectible Card Game

| Games with RPG or board game inspirations that focus on playing cards to defeat your opponent. The player can often customize their deck.

| Card game in which the players bet on the value of their hands, the winner taking the pool.

| Card game in which the player's objective is to empty one's hand of all cards before the opponents.

| Uno Undercover

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| Solitaire

| Reorder a deck in a prescribed arrangement by rank and suit through moving cards under some restrictions.

| Solitaire

== Creative ==

Games facilitating user made content, from customizing characters to coloring to making your own picture.

| Character Creator

| Games similar to <code>Dress Up</code>, but with an extra level of customization, such as modifying physical features and colors, which allow you to make your own original characters.

| Mega Anime Couple Creator

| Coloring Book

| Digital coloring pages.  Pick a color and color in a picture.  Like a coloring book, but in the form of a web game.

| SpongeBob: Coloring Book

| Community Content

| Games with community-made content (such as custom levels) included in Flashpoint. Typically also contain some sort of editor.

| Happy Wheels

| Drawing

| Works involving or depicting the action of drawing, painting, or other similar activities. Not to be confused with <code>Coloring</code>, which only involves adding colors to a premade picture instead of creating one from scratch.

| The Drawing Grounds

| Dress Up

| Choose simple cosmetic options for a given character such as outfits, hairstyles and accessories.

| Summer Bride Dress Up Game

| Level Editor

| Games with level editors. Create your own level using assets from the game.

| Apply make up of your choice to a given character, from a portrait or bust perspective.

| Ice Queen Make Up Game

| Object Creator

| Customize and decorate an item, for example a vehicle or a device. Similar to <code>Dress Up</code>, but for inanimate objects.

| Bunny's Ice Cream Maker

| Sandbox

| Games focused on creating, building, and experimenting with little restriction. Minimal objectives are set in these games, but the player can set their own.

| Minecraft Classic

| Scene Creator

| Place objects, characters, and other decorations in a diorama. Similar to <code>Dress Up</code>, but for scenes.

| The Disney Create series

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Educational games aim to teach something as you play.

 

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|Astronomy

|A game or utility that provides information about celestial objects and the universe beyond Earth.

|Interactive Constellation Map

| Biology

| A game that teaches people about subjects to do with life, including human anatomy and microbiology.

| Cell Defense: The Plasma Membrane

| Chemistry

| A game that teaches people about the properties and behavior of matter.

| VRML Models for Analysing Chemical Structure-Activity Relationships.

| Civics

| A game that teaches people how to behave in, and help their community. Also known as "Citizenship" in some areas.

| A game that teaches the player how to use computers, including how to code.

| Ben 10: Omnicode

| Economics

| A game that teaches the player about money and business.

| ACCA: Think Ahead

| Engineering

| A game that teaches the player building real-life structures and machines.

| Ready for Preschool: Treehouse Builders

| Fine Art

| A game that teaches the player about the history of art, including paintings and sculptures.

| Renaissance

| First Aid

| A game that teaches the player how to administer medical care in an emergency.

| Lifesaver

| Geography

| A game that teaches the player about locations around the world.

| Geography Game: USA

| Geometry

| A game that teaches the player about shapes.

| Ancient Greek Geometry

| Health

| A game that teaches the player about how to stay healthy, including through diet and exercise.

| Calories in a Sandwich

| History

| A game that teaches the player historical events, places, and figures.

| A game that helps the player learn a language (English included).

| Sushi Spell

| Mathematics

| A game that primarily involves solving math problems.

| Math Shootout

| Media Studies

| A game that teaches the player how to understand, and create media such as films and television programs.

| Thor: Trailer Maker

| Music Studies

| A game that teaches the player about various aspects of music, including instruments, how to play, and interpretation.

| Name That Woodwind!

| Physics Education

| A game that teaches the player about how matter interacts with natural forces.

| BLACK HOLE Choose Your Own Adventure

| Public Service Announcement

| A game or animation that aims to educate the viewer, or raise awareness of, a serious, non-academic subject.

| Spot it and Stop it - Interactive Anti-Bullying Video

| Quiz

| A game that asks you questions about any particular subject matter. Some Quiz games are more parodical than educational, however.

| 50 States

| Reproductive Health

| Works which focus on topics such as puberty, sex, or pregnancy; usually in an educational or informative context.

| HIV, AIDS, and Drug Abuse Game

| Science

| A game that teaches a scientific field, including chemistry, biology, and physics.

| ARTE Science Kit: Brain Circulation

| Theology

| Games that teach the player about various religions, including their beliefs and practises.

| Books of the Bible

| Tutorial

| A game that is more akin to a tutorial, showing you how to do something in an interactive fashion.

| Ultimate Spriting Tutorial

| Typing

| Games that teach you to type efficiently.

| Games that teach the players about animals, including their features, behaviour, and habitats.

| Habitats

|}

 

 

If an educational game or animation was made for a specific age range, one of these tags should also be included.

 

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| Early Childhood Education

| Educational games designed for very young children, up to and including their first years of school.

| Ready for Preschool: Lost Letter Adventures

| Childhood Education

| Educational games designed for children in school, up to their teenage years.

| Educational games designed for teenagers, up to the age of eighteen.

| Educational games designed for adults and professionals.

| ACCA: Think Ahead

|}

 

Games which are generally themed around fields of recreational mathematics.

 

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| Cellular Automata

| Set "cells" on a grid that evolves each turn by a set of rules based on the states of neighboring cells. Used along with <code>Toy</code> when there is no objective.

| 3D Game of Life

| Fractal

| Any work designed to visualize fractals.

| Fractal Explorer

|}

 

 

| Games about deciphering a sequence through trial and error with a limited number of attempts.

| Connect the Dots

| Connect dots in the correct order to reveal an image.

| Taz Connect-The-Dot

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| Crossword

| Use clues to enter words letter-by-letter in a grid of squares.

| Daily Crossword

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| Grid Toggle

| Game with the goal of turn all tiles in a grid to one specific state, where clicking toggles adjacent tiles, and/or the tile you clicked.

| Lights Out

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| Hangman

| Select a letter each turn to guess a word or phrase. Guess incorrectly too many times and you lose.

| Hangman: Mathematics and More

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| Hidden Objects

| Find things that are hidden within a larger picture.

| Pocket Creature ~Hidden Objects~

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| Jigsaw

| Works where the goal is to assemble a larger image by placing simple tiles or interlocking pieces together on a board, sometimes requiring them to be rotated.

| Ice-Age 4 Jigsaw Puzzle

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| Klotski

| A sliding block puzzle where the goal is to either free a specific piece or move it to a particular location

| Use a set of tools per level to guide marching characters from point A to point B.

| Oreo O's Creme Team Journey

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| Logic

| Follow a set of rules, whether explained or not, and use methodical thinking to solve puzzles. Usually has no game-over criteria or time limit.

| 3D Logic 2

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| Matching

| Click on (or otherwise group) objects of the same color or shape together to match them.

| Ores

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| Match-3

| Similar to <code>Matching</code>, but objects are swapped with each other to line them up within a grid.

| Bejeweled

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| Maze

| Games that require using your memory to constantly remember in-game information, such as the level layout or a sequence of inputs. Memory match and Simon says games fit this tag.

| "Elephants Never Forget!" Memory Game

| Minesweeper

| Clear a grid-based board without spotting hidden hazards, with tile clues about the number of neighboring hazards.

| Zombie Minesweeper

| Mixing

| A game where you have to merge ingredients to see an outcome.

| Mix a Monster

| Nonogram

| Color cells according to numbers at the side of the grid to reveal a hidden picture.

| Armor Picross

| Pipe Connector

| Add and/or rotate pipe-shaped pieces on a grid to create a path between two ends. Often has a time limit.

| Wonka Bars: Chocolate Pipe Madness

| Sequential

| Games where you have to add items in the correct order to the playing field to ensure that they interact with each other properly and evolve to their max level.

| GROW Island

| Sliding

| Slide squares or blocks along a grid to create an image or free a specific tile.

| 8 Square Slider

| Sokoban

| Games that involve pushing boxes around an area into specific locations.

| Aggressive Sokoban

| Spot the Difference

| Games involving finding differences between pictures.

| Differences in Puppy Land

| Stealth

| The player must move around discreetly to avoid being detected by enemy entities.

| The Classroom

| Sudoku

| A grid-based game where the goal is to have each row, column and grid of nine boxes be filled with unique values.

| Just Sudoku

| Tile Merger

| Slide constantly generated tiles on a grid to combine similar ones and create new tiles until achieving a highly combined one.

| 2048: Llama Edition

| Twisty Puzzle

| Games featuring puzzles such as the Rubik's Cube. Often used along with <code>Toy</code>.

| Rubik Unbound

| Word

| Games based on anagrams or similar material, or games that involve manipulating words. <code>Word Search</code> and <code>Crossword</code> are more specific tags.

| Bookworm

| Word Search

| Find words from a list inside of a big grid of letters.

| Word Search 2000

== Simulation ==

 

 

| Babysitting

| A game where you take care of a child or multiple children.

| Baby Diaper Change

| Bingo

| A game involving a 5x5 grid of (usually) numbers, which is won by marking 5 in a row either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. A column and value is called out, and if it matches one on a given card, the cell is marked.

| Battle Bingo

| Computing Device

| Explore an operating system or electronic device. Usually parodical.

| Windows 59

| Cooking

| Games that revolve around cooking food.

| Cooking Academy

| Cleaning

| A game where your objective is to get rid of stains, dirt and mess from objects, characters or rooms.

| Messy Class Room Cleaning

| Dentist

| Any game where you examine and fix a character's teeth.

| The Rock: Tooth Problems

| Doctor

| A game that involves performing medical treatments on a character. This includes caring for injuries, treating illnesses, and performing check-ups.

| Diego Nose Doctor

| Driving

| Driving games involve steering a vehicle, whether to win a race, get the shortest time, or accomplish another goal.

| Action Driving Game

| Farming

| Plant and cultivate resources, usually crops.

| The Farmer

| Fishing

| Use a rod to try to catch fish.

| Flying without any fighting or racing. Usually in a plane or other airborne vehicle.

| Into Space 2

| Gambling

| Bet virtual money, win virtual money.

| Blackjack Elf

| Hairdressing

| A game where you give a character a new hairstyle by cutting, dyeing, and/or styling their hair.

| Pou Girl Hair Salon

| Hunting

| A game that simulates hunting of wildlife/game as the primary gameplay. They are usually also a <code>Shooting Gallery</code>.

| Animal Hunter Arcade Edition

| Luck Roller

| Games focused on random events, such as coin flippers or roulettes. If there are bets involved, use the <code>Gambling</code> tag.

| Grand Roulette

| Mining

| Take ores, gems and other types of valuable minerals and objects from rocks or the ground.

| Mega Miner

| Parking

| Park in a precise space, using any vehicle.

| Docking Perfection 2

| Pet

| A game where you take care of a pet or multiple pets.

| The Pets Factor - Furry Friends

| Restaurant

| A game where you serve food in a restaurant or similar venue, including bars, school cafeterias, and food trucks. Games where you only cook food and not serve it should be tagged <code>Cooking</code>.

| Beach Restaurant

| Slot Machine

| A game of chance featuring a screen displaying three or more reels that spin when activated. Prizes are given when symbols on the reels line up in a certain pattern after the reels stop spinning.

| Carnival Slots

| Spa

| A game where spa treatments are performed on a character. These can include face masks, massages, and manicures/pedicures.

| Spring Fairy Spa

| Surgery

| Any game that involves performing medical operations on characters.

| Elsa Heart Surgery

| Repairing

| The surgery equivalent for objects.

| Zelda the Welder

| Tattoo Artist

| Games where the player gives one or more characters a permanent tattoo.

| Zoe at Tattoo Shop

| Time Management

| Move resources quickly in order to reach a quota or fulfill some other objective.

| Diner Dash

| Tycoon

| Manage the economy and other aspects of a business or project and expand its development.

| McDonald's Video Game

<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'''Virtual Spaces'''</span>

| Panorama

| Scroll around a panoramic image of a place.

| Bintan Beach Panorama

| Virtual Tour

| Click waypoints or be guided to different interesting landmarks with descriptions, usually within a real world place.

| Virtual World

| Freely move in around in a 3D environment.

| Walking Simulator

| A game that involves the player exploring a world by walking around it, often while a story unfolds. If a game involves combat, platforming, or anything more than just walking around, it usually isn't a walking simulator.

== Sports ==  

Sports games attempt to replicate the gameplay of physical sports. This also encompasses fictional sports such as Quidditch. A game does not have to perfectly replicate a sport, so long as it is inspired by sports.

| American Football

| A game where two teams attempt to carry the ball to the other end of the stadium.

| First Down Football

| Archery

| The player uses a bow and arrow to hit a distant target.

| Ultimate Bullseye

| Athletics

| Games that match sports defined as "Athletics" in the Olympics. This includes running, jumping, and throwing disciplines.

| A game where two teams attempt to hit a ball with a bat and catch it.

| A game where two teams try to get a ball through a raised hoop.

| Spooky Hoops

| Billiards

| A game where players try to "pocket" balls with a cue. This encompasses billiards, pool, snooker, and any other sport that uses a cue.

| 8 Ball Pool

| Boating

| A game where the player navigates a body of water by any type of boat.

| Boat Rush

| Bowling

| The players roll a ball, intending to knock down as many pins as possible at the end of the track.

| Gutterball Golden Pin Bowling

| Boxing

| A form of fighting where two competitors use their fists (usually with protective gloves) to either gain points by landing a hit on their opponent, or knocking them out.

| Big Shot Boxing

| Cricket

| A game where one team attempts to knock off the opposing team's bails, while the other tries to score runs by hitting the ball away from the other team.

| Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: Cricket Challenge

| Curling

| A game based on the precision sport of curling. Carefully throw an object across a slippery surface so that it stops on top of a particular target.

| 3 Puck Chuck

| Cycling

| A game where the player rides a bicycle.

| DONUTZ Rush Hour Racer

| Equestrianism

| Games featuring the use of horses for competitive sports and exhibitions, like horse racing and dressage.

| Horse Eventing

| Golf

| Each player attempts to get their ball to the end of a course in the fewest hits.

| Cartoon Cove Mini Golf

| Hockey

| Two teams using skates attempt to get the ball or puck into the opposing goal. This encompasses ice hockey, roller hockey, and air hockey.

| Postopia Power Play

| Racing

| Try to go faster than either the other drivers or the clock as you drive around a track.

| A form of football played with an oval ball in which the handling and carrying of the ball is permitted. Not to be confused with <code>American Football</code>.

| Skateboarding

| A game where a player uses a skateboard to either perform tricks or reach the end of a track.

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| Skating

| A game where a player uses either ice skates or roller skates to perform tricks or reach the end of a track.

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| Skiing

| Downhill Skiing

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| Snowboarding

| A game where the player uses a snowboard.

| Chocobo's Snowboard Glide

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| Soccer

| Toon Cup 2020

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| Surfing

| A game where the player uses a surfboard.

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| Swimming

| Hyper Sports 50 Metres Swimming

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| Tennis

| TARDIS Tennis

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| Volleyball

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| Lane-Based Strategy

| You and your opponent have one or more lanes with which to send units down to attack each other.

| Node-Based Strategy

| The player and the enemy each control 'nodes', which they can send units to and from.

| Real-Time Strategy

| Create units and buildings, collect resources, and face an opponent who's doing the same things at the same time as you are.

| Turn-Based

| Take turns against a computer-controlled character(s) or another player. Usually used with Role-Playing and Tabletop games.

| Sonny

|}

 

 

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| Ataxx

| Also called Hexxagon, you and your opponent move or duplicate your pieces to empty squares to capture all adjacent pieces. The player that controls the majority of the board when the board is filled or when a player can no longer move wins.

| Battleship

| Arrange your items on a grid, and then guess where on the grid your opponent has placed theirs. First to eliminate the other's set wins. Not to be used with the Battleship franchise.

| War Ships Online Battle

| Checkers

| Also called Draughts, move diagonally in order to capture opponents by jumping over them. This tag also applies to any game that has the basic checkers ruleset.

| Chess

| A board game where you must try to capture the opponent's "King". This tag also applies to any game that has the basic chess ruleset.

| Dice

| Games involving rolling dice, such as backgammon or Yahtzee.

| Dominoes

| Games that use dominoes or have the basic ruleset of these games.

| The Domino Knight

| Go

| Two players game in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent. Singleplayer Gomoku where objective is to set 5 go pieces in a row is also covered by this tag.

| Ludo

| A strategy board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four tokens from start to finish according to the rolls of a single die.

| Ludo Unity3D

| Mahjong

| A game which uses mahjong tiles, where the goal is to create a winning hand which typically consists of four sets and a pair.

| Mahjong Solitaire

| A game which uses mahjong tiles stacked and arranged in a pattern, where the goal is to clear the board by matching pairs of exposed tiles. Tiles are considered to be exposed if they can be moved either left or right without disturbing other tiles.

| Peg Solitaire

| Jump pieces orthogonally in a grid to remove an adjacent piece, finishing with an empty board except for a single piece.

| Reversi

| Take turns with your opponent adding pieces in a board and converting enemy pieces between newly added ones and your other pieces. The player with most pieces in the board wins.

| Shogi

| The game is played by two persons on a board with pieces of varying powers, and the object of the game is to checkmate (“trap”) the opposing king.

| Tic-Tac-Toe

| Place a symbol in a grid each turn to create a row of them while preventing your opponent from doing so.

| Tower of Hanoi

| A game consisting of stacked discs and three poles, where each disc can only be moved one at a time and can only be placed on a disc smaller than itself. The goal is to move all of the discs to a different pole than the one they were stacked on originally.

| Xiangqi

| The object is to capture the opponent’s king, and each player starts with an army of 16 pieces on opposite sides of a game board.

| Chinese Chess

|}

 

A tool or any other non-game which serves a purpose.

 

| Calculator