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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 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.
To see a list of potential tags currently being considered for addition, follow the link below:
Action
These games are active and action-packed, whether they involve running, jumping, shooting, or something else.
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Artillery | Games where you use various weapons, setting the power and angle, to fight your enemy. | Tank Wars |
| Beat 'Em Up | Progress through areas, beating up goons as you go; usually 2D. | Stick Brawl |
| Bullet Hell | A game that revolves dodging tons of projectiles at once on screen. | Epic Battle Fantasy 4.4: Bullet Heaven 2 |
| Defense | Games which involve defending an area from an advancing wave of enemies. | Storm the House |
| Fighting | Two characters face off using combos and special techniques. | Samurai Fighters |
| First-Person Shooter | A shooter played from the point of view of the character firing the weapon. | Sierra 7 |
| Platformer | Progress through one or more stages by jumping from object to object. | Super Mario 63 |
| Rail Shooter | A shooter played with a viewpoint that moves automatically, with no input available to the player. | Xiao Xiao no. 4 |
| Run 'n' Gun | Jump, run, and shoot; a platformer with a heavy emphasis on shooting. | Alien Hominid |
| Shoot 'Em Up | Move freely horizontally and vertically to shoot enemies with projectiles, while avoiding theirs. | Cookie Crisp Space Flight Shooter |
| Shooter | Any game where you use projectiles to shoot enemies. | Endless War 3 |
| Shooting Gallery | 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. | Pokemon Shooting Range |
| Sniper | A particular type of shooter where you play as a character eliminating targets with a sniper rifle. Visual is "aiming down the scope" of the rifle. This tag is often paired with the Military and/or Stick tags due to high number of sniper games featuring a military setting and/or stick figures. | Sneaky Sniper |
| Third-Person Shooter | A shooter played from behind the player, with the character being visible on-screen. | Jimmy Neutron: Rescue Jet Fusion |
| Time-Attack | A game where you try to complete a given task in the fastest time possible or within a very short time limit. Not to be confused with the Racing tag. |
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| Vertically-Scrolling Shooter | The game is played with a playfield that scrolls from bottom to top (usually in a ship). | Enigmata 2 |
Adventure
In Adventure games, the player experiences an interactive story driven by exploration and/or puzzle solving.
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Choose Your Own Adventure | 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. | The Henry Stickmin Series |
| Collectathon | Games where the goal is to collect a certain amount of items in order to clear a level, often divided by stages or worlds. Inspired by Super Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie. | Kiwi 64 |
| Dating Simulator | Pick options to take boys, girls, etc. on dates. | SimGirls |
| Dungeon Crawler | You have one life. Don't die, or you'll lose most if not all of your progress. | Yet Another Roguelike |
| Escape the Room | 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. | Cube Escape: The Cave |
| Interactive Fiction | A game that primarily consists of text without images, like a book. Allows you to make decisions, explore, manage stats with buttons or commands, and may or may not change the narration dynamically. | Forgotten |
| Metroidvania | Adventure games that feature an interconnected world, explored by acquiring new items and unlocking new areas. | Nuclear Autumn |
| MMO | A game that is designed to support many players playing simultaneously within the same environment. (Note: As Flashpoint is designed for offline play, these games will remain single player) | Moshi Monsters |
| Point and Click | A specific subset of adventure games where your only controls are the mouse. | Easy Joe |
| Role-Playing | Explore a world, solve puzzles, and fight in these adventure games. May or may not have detailed character stats. | Sonny |
| Scavenger Hunt | 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 |
| Visual Novel | Story based games that consist almost entirely of reading and picking choices. Often with static backgrounds and characters. | I woke up next to you again. |
Arcade
Arcade games have easily graspable gameplay and a focus on getting a high score.
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Arcade Slicer | Cut or swipe objects before they move off the screen. Usually inspired by Fruit Ninja. | Fruit Slicer |
| Balancing | Move a platform or a character left and right to prevent an item or a character from falling. | Chaplin Balance |
| Button Masher | Press one or more specific buttons as fast you can. | Super Pen Click Race 5000 |
| Bomb Maze | Defeat enemies by strategically placing bombs and obstacles in a maze. Inspired by Bomberman. | Bomb It series |
| Bounce | Bounce an item to prevent it from falling to the ground. | H-Bounce |
| Brick Breaker | Bounce a ball from a paddle to break all the bricks in a level. | bloXplatter |
| Catching | Collect objects that fall from the top of the screen, sometimes while avoiding obstacles, bad objects and/or not missing any of the good ones. | Bubble Yum Bubble Gum Grab |
| Claw Game | A game that utilizes the core mechanics of a claw machine, such as the random chance of sending the claw down to get a valuable item. | Gold Miner |
| Clicker | A game where you primarily click to increase numbers. Not to be confused with the Idle tag.
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OSTM |
| Cross the Road | Get your character to the other side of the road safely, usually from a top-down perspective. Inspired by Frogger. | Frogger |
| Digging | Dig down into the ground to remove obstacles or defeat enemies. These games are clones of/similar to Dig Dug, if the goal is purely to mine valuables and simulating mining in general, then use the Mining tag. | Dig Dug BB |
| Dodge | You control a character, dodging or avoiding obstacles. | Cubefield |
| Endless Flyer | Control a character attempting to fly between columns or hazards while being affected by gravity. | Flappy Nyan Cat |
| Endless Jumper | Control a character in a vertical field, climbing as high you can and avoiding falling. Often in a playfield that scrolls from bottom to top and accompanied with Platformer.
|
Goin' Up |
| Fixed Shooter | Similar to Shoot 'Em Up, but characters only move in one axis and levels are contained in a single screen.
|
Space Invaders |
| Food Chain | A game where your objective is to eat smaller creatures while avoiding bigger ones. | Fishy |
| Idle | A game where numbers go up while you're away. Most of the incremental games are idle ones. | Progress Quest |
| Launch | Throw a character into the air and get as far as possible. Often accompanied with the Upgrade tag as you buy upgrades to shoot yourself further next time.Not to be confused with the Toss tag.
|
Learn to Fly |
| Marble Popper | Shoot a round, small object at others of its kind to match groups of the same color, whether in a large mass as in Puzzle Bobble, or along a trail as in Zuma. | Coba |
| Pachinko | Drop a ball from the top of a board to land it in a particular spot and/or score points. Unlike pinball, once it drops you have no control over the ball. | Peny Pachinko |
| Pellet Maze | Navigate a character around a maze while collecting objects and avoiding enemies. Inspired by Pac-Man. | Pacman |
| Pinball | A game typically involving two paddles, a ball with realistic physics, and various objects on a play field that give you points when hit. | Pinbill |
| Pong | Games specifically based on Pong. Other paddle-based games will most likely use either the Brick Breaker or Pinball tag.
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PONGS |
| Rhythm | Press the right buttons to the beat of the music. | F2Jam |
| Rock-Paper-Scissors | A game based on the classic three-way head-to-head mind game. | Pico vs. Uberkids |
| Runner | A game that usually involves you moving down a path automatically, avoiding obstacles in order to either get a high score (endless) or finish a level. | Robot Unicorn Attack |
| Score-Attack | Your goal throughout the game is to get a high score. | Starry Night |
| Sequence Dropper | A variant of Vertical Drop games such as Suika Game where you have to connect two of the same type of object to make a bigger one, which then needs to combine with another of its type, in a way similar to 2048. Physics will typically apply in these games, unlike traditional vertical droppers.
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Merge Melons |
| Snake | Control a line that typically grows in length, collecting objects without colliding into yourself. Inspired by Snake. | Snake Classic |
| Sorting | Games that involve organizing items into different categories, commonly by color or shape. If you are sorting based on logic rather than quick reactions, consider using Matching instead.
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Slime Sorter |
| Stacking | Games that involve stacking objects, typically while keeping them balanced. | Super Stacker |
| Tetris | Drop pieces onto a grid-based playing field to form lines across the entire grid. Inspired by Tetris. If a game isn't based on Tetris, but still involves dropping tiles vertically, see the Vertical Drop tag.
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Tetris 1989 |
| Tile Traveler | Capture tiles by walking or jumping onto them to change their color, sometimes while avoiding enemies. | SpongeBob: Pyramid Peril |
| Timing | Similar to rhythm games, these tend to rely on non-musical, usually-visual cues and proper timing. Stacking and slacking games are popular variants. | Feed the King |
| Toss | 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. Not to be confused with the Launch tag.
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Soccer Kicker |
| Whack-A-Mole | Characters will pop up on the screen (usually from holes) and the player must hit them before they disappear. | Grizzly & the Lemmings: Whack a Lemming |
| Variety | Mini-game collections, or games where the gameplay changes frequently. | Four Second Fury |
| Vertical Drop | Falling objects of various types drop from above for the player to eliminate, typically by merging a quotient amount of the same object. Games such as Puyo Puyo and Dr. Mario fit this tag. If the objective is to form lines from one side of the board to the other, use the Tetris tag instead, or if it's physics-based and involves making two objects of the same type touch in a sequence, use Sequence Dropper instead.
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Puyo Puyo |
Card
Games where the gameplay revolves around using cards. Some are accompained by the Gambling tag.
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Monster Master |
| Poker | Card game in which the players bet on the value of their hands, the winner taking the pool. | Flash Poker |
| Shedding | Card game in which the player's objective is to empty one's hand of all cards before the opponents. | Uno Undercover |
| 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.
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Character Creator | Games similar to Dress Up, but with an extra level of customization, such as modifying physical features and colors, which allow you to make your own original characters.
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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 Coloring, 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. | Warp |
| Make Up | 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 Dress Up, 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 Dress Up, but for scenes.
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The Disney Create series |
Educational
Educational games aim to teach something as you play.
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Ready for Preschool: Helpful Heroes |
| Computer Science | 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. | Horrible Histories: Terrible Treasures |
| Language | 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. | Icarus Proudbottom Teaches Typing! |
| Vexillology | A game that teaches the player about flags. | Talking with Signal Flags |
| Zoology | Games that teach the players about animals, including their features, behaviour, and habitats. | Habitats |
Educational Age Categories
If an educational game or animation was made for a specific age range, one of these tags should also be included.
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Deadly 60: Food Chains |
| Teenage Education | Educational games designed for teenagers, up to the age of eighteen. | State of Debate |
| Adult Education | Educational games designed for adults and professionals. | ACCA: Think Ahead |
Mathematical
Games which are generally themed around fields of recreational mathematics.
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Toy when there is no objective.
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3D Game of Life |
| Fractal | Any work designed to visualize fractals. | Fractal Explorer |
Puzzle
Puzzle games involve brainteasers of all types, from fast-paced matching games to hidden object puzzles.
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Assemblage | A game where you either assemble or disassemble an object such as a computer in the correct order. Will often have educational purposes. | The Computer Puzzle: Interactive Knowledge Board |
| Codebreaker | Games about deciphering a sequence through trial and error with a limited number of attempts. | Bubblegum Code Cracker |
| Connect the Dots | Connect dots in the correct order to reveal an image. | Taz Connect-The-Dot |
| Crossword | Use clues to enter words letter-by-letter in a grid of squares. | Daily Crossword |
| 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 |
| Hangman | Select a letter each turn to guess a word or phrase. Guess incorrectly too many times and you lose. | Hangman: Mathematics and More |
| Hidden Objects | Find things that are hidden within a larger picture. | Pocket Creature ~Hidden Objects~ |
| 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 |
| Klotski | A sliding block puzzle where the goal is to either free a specific piece or move it to a particular location | Sliding Blocks |
| Lemmings | Use a set of tools per level to guide marching characters from point A to point B. | Oreo O's Creme Team Journey |
| 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 |
| Matching | Click on (or otherwise group) objects of the same color or shape together to match them. | Ores |
| Match-3 | Similar to Matching, but objects are swapped with each other to line them up within a grid.
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Bejeweled |
| Maze | A game where you traverse or solve mazes. | Moonlight Mazes |
| Memory | 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 |
| Shell Game | A game in which a small object (most often a ball) is placed under one of multiple identical objects (cups, shells, etc.) which switch places. The objective is to find which object has the smaller object underneath. | Babar Ball N Cup |
| 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 Toy.
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Rubik Unbound |
| Word | Games based on anagrams or similar material, or games that involve manipulating words. Word Search and Crossword are more specific tags.
|
Bookworm |
| Word Search | Find words from a list inside of a big grid of letters. | Word Search 2000 |
Simulation
This type of a game attempts to simulate something from real life, like a card game or just walking around.
General
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Donald's Gone Gooey Fishing |
| Flying | 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 Shooting Gallery.
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Animal Hunter Arcade Edition |
| Luck Roller | Games focused on random events, such as coin flippers or roulettes. If there are bets involved, use the Gambling 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 |
| Repairing | The surgery equivalent for objects. | Zelda the Welder |
| 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 Cooking.
|
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 |
| 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 |
Virtual Spaces
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Alberta Archives Society Archives Tour |
| Virtual World | Freely move in around in a 3D environment. | Peach's Castle Flying Demo |
| 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. | SOPA/PIPA |
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.
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | QWOP |
| Baseball | A game where two teams attempt to hit a ball with a bat and catch it. | Pro Baseball |
| Basketball | 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 |
| Motocross | A game where a player on a bike attempts to traverse obstacles, usually with 2D physics. | Dirt Bike |
| Racing | Try to go faster than either the other drivers or the clock as you drive around a track. | Cyclomaniacs |
| Rugby | 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 American Football.
|
Rugby Challenge |
| Skateboarding | A game where a player uses a skateboard to either perform tricks or reach the end of a track. | G Max Skateboarding |
| Skating | A game where a player uses either ice skates or roller skates to perform tricks or reach the end of a track. | Championship Figure Skating |
| Skiing | A game where the player uses skis. This includes racing, jumping, and slalom. | Downhill Skiing |
| Snowboarding | A game where the player uses a snowboard. | Chocobo's Snowboard Glide |
| Soccer | Two teams attempt to kick the ball into the opposing goal. | Toon Cup 2020 |
| Surfing | A game where the player uses a surfboard. | Aussie Surf Classic |
| Swimming | Swim laps around a pool, while competing against the clock or other swimmers. | Hyper Sports 50 Metres Swimming |
| Tennis | Two or more players attempt to hit the ball over a net with a racket, with the goal of forcing your opponent to drop it. This also encompasses Table Tennis. | TARDIS Tennis |
| Volleyball | Two teams attempt to hit a ball so it strikes the ground of the opposing team's play area. | Beach City Turbo Volleyball GP |
Strategy
Strategy games come in many forms, but usually involve controlling units in an efficient way to defeat some kind of enemy.
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Lane-Based Strategy | You and your opponent have one or more lanes with which to send units down to attack each other. | Plants vs Zombies (Web Version) |
| Node-Based Strategy | The player and the enemy each control 'nodes', which they can send units to and from. | Tentacle Wars |
| 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. | Creeper World: Evermore |
| Tower Defense | Build various towers to destroy the units your enemies send against you. | Bloons TD 5 |
| Turn-Based | Take turns against a computer-controlled character(s) or another player. Usually used with Role-Playing and Tabletop games. | Sonny |
Tabletop
Games that replicate board games, real-life or invented.
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Hexxagon |
| 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. | Koala Checkers |
| 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. | Bikini Bottom Chess |
| Dice | Games involving rolling dice, such as backgammon or Yahtzee. | Yacht |
| 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. | 五子棋 |
| 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. | NingPo MahJong |
| 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. | 247 Mahjong |
| Peg Solitaire | Jump pieces orthogonally in a grid to remove an adjacent piece, finishing with an empty board except for a single piece. | Pegz |
| 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. | Beach Reversi |
| 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. | 詰将棋 |
| Tic-Tac-Toe | Place a symbol in a grid each turn to create a row of them while preventing your opponent from doing so. | It's Just TIC TAC TOE |
| 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 larger than itself. The goal is to move all of the discs to a different pole than the one they were stacked on originally. | The Towers of Hanoi |
| 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 |
Utility
A tool or any other non-game which serves a purpose.
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Calculator | A tool to perform various calculations. | Rockwell '76 Calculator Simulator |
| Clock | A tool which help display time. | Eggman clock |
| Map | A drawing that gives information about an area. | The Witcher 3 Interactive Map |
Other
If a game doesn't seem to fit anywhere else, it will probably fit in one of these tags.
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Art Trade | Works that were made in exchange for works created by another individual without financial transactions involved. | -Tradeart for Alainprem- |
| Auditory Illusion | Demonstrations of audio content intended to exhibit ambiguous or contradictory sounding results, among other things. | Impossible 3D Stairs with Illusory Music |
| Augmented Reality | An interactive work which uses the webcam to overlay 3D models over the real world. | WONDLA-VISION MAP |
| Broken Feature | Works that have some kind of feature currently broken yet gameplay is minimally unaffected, such as an online highscore table or premium/account features. Not to be confused with the Partial status, which is for missing assets.
|
Learn to Fly 3 |
| Closed Captioning | Games that have a setting for Closed Captioning, or has it as default. | Team Hamster: Roll to the Rescue |
| Comic | A work which shows images and/or animations to deliver a story. Not to be confused with Visual Novel, which allows the player to influence the story based on their choices.
|
Darnell Plays With Fire |
| Customization | A game that allows you to customize features, but doesn't focus on customization as the main element of gameplay. If customization is the game's primary genre, a tag under the Creative header might fit better.
|
PBS Kids Go! Secret Box |
| Demonstration | Technical, engine, or concept demonstration. A tech demo. | Ray Cast Car |
| Demoscene | A subculture that creates various works, usually audiovisual presentations, many of which showcase a platform's capabilities or were made in a very small size limit, usually 32 bytes to 64 kilobytes. Not to be confused with Demonstration.
|
Cat |
| Ecard | A virtual postcard that you can send to a friend or relative's email. Usually customizable. | Savanna-gram eCard |
| Emulator | A program that emulates another system online. Not to be confused with the Emulated tag.
|
Nesbox Emulator |
| ePub | An interactive publication such as a magazine or pamphlet. | Disney Movie Rewards |
| Experimental | Nontraditional games that often explore new concepts in art or gameplay. | Crumbling Room |
| Fortune | Choose an item or ask a question to receive a prediction made from purely superstitious means. | The Fortunator |
| Gift | Works that have been created for someone specific out of appreciation. | - Gift FLASH - Planet's Peak |
| Hidden Content | Works that contain content that is not normally seen when playing through normally. This is usually done intentionally by briefly showing a clickable object hidden somewhere, such as the background. | Jolly Jugglers |
| Incomplete | A work which has not been completed, or mentions the possibility of future updates. A good indicator would be a version such as "Alpha" (sometimes "a" in the version number), "Beta" (sometimes "b" in the version number), or anything below a "1.0". | Bee Fighter 2 Minus One |
| Interactive | Any work which contains minimal amounts of interaction, which doesn't fit any other tag. Most common examples would be using buttons to change scenes or images (such as slideshows). If there is dialogue involved, consider using Comic.
|
Franny's Feet Home Menu |
| Kissing | A strangely prevalent type of game where the gameplay revolves around characters kissing. | Seaside Kissing |
| Microsite | Not so much a game as an interactive website backed up from the Internet. Often exists to promote another product. | J.K. Rowling Official Site |
| Multiple Endings | Works which may have different endings depending on choices that you make. | The Visitor |
| Optical Illusion | Demonstrations of visual content intended to exhibit ambiguous or contradictory visual results, among other things. | Impossible Rotating Crate |
| Personality Quiz | An alternate type of quiz game where choosing certain answers determines your "Personality" at the end. | Which One Of Spongebob's Front Teeth Are You? |
| Photo Gallery | A selection of images, often of people's travels or of an event, that are displayed in such a manner where a viewer can pick whichever they'd like to see. If you're forced to view them in a particular order, use Slideshow instead. | Escape Worldwide Elephants Photo Gallery |
| Print Studio | Games where the emphasis is on printing items that may or may not be customized by the player beforehand. | Print Center: Beauty and the Beast |
| Procedural Generation | Works that generate content using a random or pseudo-random process that results in an unpredictable range of possibilities. | FX RUINS |
| Slacking | Games where you must complete a series of tasks without being spotted or caught. | Shop Class Slacking |
| Slideshow | A series of images, text, and/or simple animations, presented in a particular order that will be viewed one by one, typically controlled by the viewer. These are intended to be viewed as a presentation. | How to Make Interactive Games |
| Soundboard | A collection of buttons that play sounds when pressed. | Ressha Sentai ToQger Soundboard |
| Toy | Games with no objective, things to pass the time. | Interactive Buddy |
| Trial | A sample of a finished work, usually made in order to incentivize the purchase of the full version. | Mini Metro: London |
| Webpage Asset | An animated or interactive element that was made to be a part of a website. For advertisements use the Advertisement tag.
|
www.StickDeath.com Menu |
| Website Introduction | A brief animation placed before the main area of a website, often used on personal sites. | Nesquik UK Website Intro |
Combination Tags
This section is for keeping track of legacy tags which will be replaced by a "Combination Tags" feature. For now, if you see any curations missing these tags, feel free to add them so that people are able to find what they're looking for.
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| First-Person Shooter | First-Person + Shooter
|
Doom (Flash port) |
| Side-Scrolling Shooter | Side View + Shoot 'Em Up
|
A220 Mission 1 |
| Vertically-Scrolling Shooter | Vertically-Scrolling + Shoot 'Em Up
|
1945 |
| Run 'n' Gun | Platformer + Shooter
|
Alien Hominid |
Controls (Input)
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 3D Glasses | Games that support 3D glasses. | Space Treasure Stars |
| Gamepad | Games that are controllable with a gamepad. | The Fancy Pants Adventures: World 1 Remix (New) |
| Microphone | Games that take input from the microphone. | Tone-tuner |
| Mouse-only | A game that can be played in its entirety using only cursor movement, mouse buttons, or the scroll wheel. Do not use this if screens such as the pause or options menus are only accessible using the keyboard. | Elephant Zooballs |
| One Button | Games that use one button. They may also use the mouse. | GraviCat |
| Webcam | Games controlled by the webcam. | Flo |
Themes
General
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 3D | A work that uses real-time polygons to render a character or environment. Not to be confused with Pre-rendered 3D.
|
3D City |
| AI-Assisted Development | Games that heavily used machine learning to assist development. Examples of this include using software like ChatGPT to write code, or art software like DALL-E 2 or Stable Diffusion to generate image assets. | AI Did Not Make This Game |
| Achievements | A defined set of goals or challenges that award the player with trophies, badges, or other rewards upon completion. These are typically optional and do not influence the game's progression. | Papa's Pastaria |
| Collaboration | Works which feature multiple authors contributing their own part of a whole, to be published as an anthology. | NiN10Doh |
| Commission | Works that were created by the developer being hired or paid to make it. Must have some kind of indication of proof, either in the work itself, the title, or description from the original source. If work is known to be a commission by word of mouth/hearsay, mention it in Notes. |
Commission: Alacrity Dressup |
| Course Project | Works created for an assignment, usually a graduating project. | Chromatic |
| Cross-dressing | Works where characters dress as the opposite sex. | Makeover Studio: Man to Drag |
| Daily | A game with content that updates or changes every day. | Drift n' Burn 365 |
| Environmentalism | Works themed after reducing negative human impacts in the environment. | Michael, Michael, Go Recycle! |
| Famous Person | A work featuring a notable person such as a celebrity, actor, singer, etc. | Christmas with the Kardashians |
| Game Show | Works themed after a game show such as Wheel of Fortune. | Wheel of Fortune |
| Historical | Works based on a historical event or time period. | Western Front 1914 |
| Horror | Works that to provide an unsettling, creepy, spooky, scary skele-cough atmosphere. Isn't exclusive to any other tag. | Exmortis |
| Intentionally Infuriating | Intentionally unfair games designed to frustrate the player. | Syobon Action (Cat Mario) |
| Internet Forum | Works based on online communities. | 2ch KOMBAT |
| Joke | Works that exist solely to deliver a punchline. | You Have to Burn the Rope |
| LGBTQ+ | For works featuring LGBTQIA+ topics, themes, and/or characters. Not to be confused/conflated with our NSFW titles. | Dys4ia |
| Magical Girl | Works featuring magical girls, also known as Mahou Shoujo. Popular instances of this include Sailor Moon and Madoka Magica. | Madoka Magica Final Fantasy III |
| Mental Health | Works focusing on mental illnesses and/or how they affect those who have them. | Depression Quest |
| Military | Works involving soldiers engaged in warfare. Can use any type of military vehicle or weapon, such as navy boats. | Strike Force Heroes |
| Music | If music is a major part of gameplay, then use this tag. Can also be used with the Creative tag for music creation applications. | Symphony |
| NFT | Games featuring Non-Fungible Tokens. | Digital Ducklings |
| Ninja | Works involving ninjas and shinobi. | 3 Foot Ninja |
| Parody | Works meant to parody, or make fun of, an existing property. | Steve Ballmer Teaches Typing |
| Physics | Objects in the game are affected by real world/akin to real world forces. Often applies to Puzzle games. | Red Remover |
| Pirate | Salty-Swashbucklers who sail the sea on the lookout for treasure! Other features include ship sailing, sword fights and skull and crossbones (not related to piracy in terms of copyright). | Cap'n Goldgrubber's Treasure Hunt |
| Politics | Works with political themes or featuring political figures. | Good Guy With A Gun |
| Preloader Game | Works with a minigame which can be played while waiting for the main portion to finish loading. | Grand Adventure |
| Promotional | Works that are designed purely to promote a commercial product or brand. | Postopia Cereal Factory Pinball |
| Ragdoll | Games that make use of ragdoll physics, where a character can be dragged around or fall to the ground limply. | Mutilate-a-Doll 2 |
| Religious | Works with religious themes, featuring religious figures, and/or based upon religious books/verses/stories. | Noah's Ark Memo Game |
| Remake | Works made to explicitly copy another preexisting work, often with a specific twist (i.e. being made for a different plugin, using minimalistic graphics, etc.) | This is the Only Level (Pico-8) |
| Samurai | Works involving samurai. | Samurai Rebellion |
| Stick | Works featuring stick figure characters. | Fighter's Rampage |
| Story-Driven | Story is a major focus of the game. | Detective Grimoire |
| Time Dependency | Works that dynamically change, based on a hard-coded date/time, which make content inaccessible once the date/time has passed. | Evangelion Store Clock Banner |
| Train | Works that center around trains and railway transport. | Enoshima Line Simulator |
| Upgrade | Games that involve purchasing upgrades. Can apply to genres other than Launch games.
|
Johnny Upgrade |
| Voice Acted | Works with spoken lines. | European Soccer Champions |
| VTuber | Works that feature Virtual Youtubers. They are often associated with Hololive. | Gura Tambourine |
| Webcomic | A game inside a narrative mainly presented as text/images. Not to be confused with Comic.
|
[S] John: Enter village. |
| Zombie | Any work featuring zombies (usually as enemies). | The Hunt |
Settings
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Ancient Egypt | Works set in ancient Egypt or a similarly themed area. Common features include pyramids, mummies, and Egyptian sarcophaguses. | Bricks of Egypt |
| Ancient Rome | Works set in ancient Rome or a similarly themed area. Common features include gladiators, centurions, the Colosseum and references to Roman emperors. | SPQR |
| Aquatic | Works set against an underwater backdrop. Common features include submarines, sea creatures, scuba suits, and aquatic plants | Deep Sea Hunter |
| Arctic | Works set against an arctic backdrop, often featuring icebergs, penguins, and polar bears. | Learn to Fly 2 |
| Fantasy | Works with a fantasy setting, such as a fairy tale. | Talesworth Adventure Episode 1 |
| Medieval | Works taking place in a non-fantasy Middle Ages setting. If there are mythical creatures or magic, use Fantasy instead.
|
Shop Empire 3 |
| Nature | Works featuring natural environments and animals. | Sticker Park Explorer |
| Science Fiction | Works with a futuristic or science fiction theme. | Alternator |
| Space | Works with an outer-space theme. | Planet Cruncher |
| Tropical | Works that have a tropical theme or setting. | Tropical Toss |
| Underground | Works set in underground areas, both natural like caves or manufactured like tunnels and bunkers. Often, but not always, paired with the Mining tag. Only to be used literally, not for content where underground cultures are discussed or represented.
|
Cave Labyrinth |
| Western | Cowboys, six shooters and yeeing your last haw. | Wild West Showdown |
Events
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 9/11 | Works concerning the September 11, 2001 attacks. Usually accompanied with Politics.
|
Bomb Bin Laden |
| COVID-19 | Works concerning the coronavirus pandemic that began in 2019. | Covid-19 the Game |
| Russo-Ukrainian War | Works concerning the war in Ukraine from the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. | Ukraine vs Putin shootemup |
| WWII | Works based on World War II. | Battlefields World War II |
Visual Style
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Anime | Works with an anime visual style. | Anime Character Maker 2.2 |
| ASCII | Works designed with computer characters, typically ones defined in the ASCII Character Set | Caverns of Io |
| Cartoon | Visual style associated with western artists, primarily American. | Amazing Horse |
| Clay | Visual style that utilizes clay or is designed to resemble clay. | Clayball |
| Full Motion Video | Works that feature pre-recorded videos, either live action or animated. Usually accompanied with Live Action.
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Scooby-Doo! DVD Game: Funland of Freaky Frights |
| Live Action | Works featuring real filmed actors. | Sortie En Mer: A Trip Out to Sea |
| Pixel | Works with a pixelated art style. | Super Mario Bros. Crossover |
| Pre-rendered 3D | A work that uses 2D sprites that were created from renders of 3D models. Not to be confused with 3D, which is used for works that render polygons in real-time.
|
Lightsaber Battles 3D |
| Silhouette | Works that portray objects with little to no visible features, usually all-black. Not to be confused with Stick, which have an unique outline.
|
Little Wheel |
| Vector Display | Works that use graphics primarily composed of lines and simple shapes. | Tempest 1000 |
Holiday
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| American Independence Day | Works featuring America's independence, celebrated on the fourth of July. | Bugs Bunny's Home Run Derby: 4th of July Edition |
| April Fools' Day | Works made for April Fools' Day. Usually comedic in style or concept. | Sushi Cat: Storycraft World Creator |
| Canada Day | Works featuring Canada's Confederation, celebrated on the first of July. | Canada Day Online Fill-In Puzzle |
| Christmastide | Works featuring the festivities related to the Christmas/Yule/Noel season, near the end of the year. Features include (but are not limited to): snowy settings, the North Pole, Christmas elves, gift giving, Christmas cards, decorated trees, caroling/Christmas music, bells, candy canes, stockings, mistletoe, wreaths, gift-bearers such as Santa Claus and his reindeer, and other related figures including Krampus. | Bloons 2: Christmas Expansion |
| Diwali | Works featuring the Hindu autumnal festival of lights. | Supersonic Diwali Fun |
| Eastertide | Works featuring the Easter season, during spring time. Features include (but are not limited to): the Easter Bunny, decorated eggs, egg hunts, and candy. | Easter Bunny Puzzle |
| Father's Day | Works featuring the holiday honouring Fathers. | Fathers Day Quesadillas |
| Halloween | Works featuring the holiday celebrated on October 31st. Features include (but are not limited to): spooky settings, costumes, trick-or-treating, candy, jack-o-lanterns, pumpkin carving, and figures such as witches, ghosts, skeletons, vampires, zombies, and more. | Angry Birds Halloween HD |
| Hanukkah | Works featuring the festivities related to the Jewish holiday, near the end of the year. Features include (but are not limited to): menorahs, dreidels, gelt, and Hanukkah songs. | The Hanukkah Dreidel |
| Holiday | Works with holiday themes that don't fit the more specific holiday tags. | April Fools Dentist |
| Kwanzaa | Works featuring the festivities related to the African-American holiday celebrated from December 26 to January 1. Features include a kinara (a candle holder for seven candlesticks), fruits and vegetables, and unity cups. | Kwanzaa Minesweeper |
| Mother's Day | Works featuring the holiday honouring Mothers. | Mother's Day Card Creator |
| New Year | Works featuring the welcoming of the new year, celebrated on the first of January. Also covers New Year's Eve. | New Year's Blast Off |
| Oktoberfest | Works featuring the German beer festival tradition, celebrated usually in mid- or late-September. Features include traditional Bavarian outfits and large amounts of alchohol. | Bavarian Quarters |
| Shrovetide | Works featuring the festivities related to the Christian period of preparation, with the most popular festivity being Mardi Gras, a celebration whose features usually include eating, drinking, costumes, and nudity. | Mardi Gras Mayhem |
| St. Patrick's Day | Works featuring the holiday celebrated on March 17th. Features include (but are not limited to): celebrating Irish culture, alcohol, leprechauns, clovers/shamrocks, rainbows and pots of gold. | Clover Crunch |
| Thanksgiving | Works celebrating Thanksgiving, commonly involving turkeys. | Thanksgiving Turkey Preparation |
| Valentine's Day | A work which is specifically celebrating Valentine's Day. Works do not necessarily need to involve romance. | Valentine's Day Cinema |
Viewpoint
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 3/4 View | A work viewed from a tilted bird's eye view, allowing you to see the fronts and tops of objects. | Min Hero - Tower of Sages |
| Axonometric | A work viewed from an isometric, diametric, or trimetric perspective. | light-Bot |
| First-Person | A work viewed from the perspective of the user (usually coming from the eyes). | Doom Reloaded |
| Fixed Screen | A work with minimal camera movement, being limited to a single 'room' with no scrolling. Can have screen transitions. | Pac's Jungle Trip |
| Side View | A game with a playfield that scrolls from left to right. Usually applies to shoot 'em ups or platformers. | Heli Attack 3 |
| Third-Person | A work viewed from behind the player, with the character being visible on-screen. | LEGO Studios Backlot |
| Top-Down | A work viewed directly from above. | Bionicsons |
| Vertically-Scrolling | A game with a playfield that scrolls from top to bottom. Usually applies to shoot 'em ups. | Air Something |
Presence
These tags are used to describe the characters within a work. Use them when the character is the focus, usually in Dress Up, Make Up, Pet, or Not Safe For Work titles.
Species
When tagging a character's species, make sure to include the specific type from the bottom section, if any apply.
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| Alien | A species originating beyond Earth. |
| Animal Hybrid | A mostly human character possessing animal-like features. |
| Anthro | A mostly animal character possessing human-like features. |
| Feral | An animal character. |
| Human | A bipedal primate species descending from apes, native to Earth. |
| Machine | An entirely mechanical entity, usually in the form of a robot. |
| Monster | A creature possessing very little to no animal or human features. |
| Monster Hybrid | A character possessing fairly equal amounts of human, animal, or monster-like features. If the character is bipedal and has animal-like features, consider using Anthro instead. Otherwise, use this tag for humanoid creatures unless a more specific tag is available.
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| Specific Types | |
| Amphibian | A frog, toad, salamander, or caecilian character. |
| Angel | A supernatural being, usually humanoid in appearance and divine. Common features include feathery wings and a halo. Usually originate from Heaven or similar. |
| Avian | A bird character. |
| Bovine | A bison, buffalo, bull, or cow character. |
| Canine | A dog, wolf, or fox character. |
| Centaur | A Monster Hybrid with a Human upper-half and a horse-like lower half. |
| Cephalopod | A squid or octopus character. |
| Cervid | A character that falls into the Deer family of animals. |
| Cetacean | A whale, dolphin or orca character. |
| Chiroptera | A bat character. |
| Demon | A supernatural being, usually humanoid in appearance and evil. Common features include fangs, horns, dragon-like wings, and a tail. Usually originate from Hell/underworld or similar. |
| Dinosaur | A character from the diverse and extinct group of prehistoric reptiles. |
| Dragon | A reptilian creature of myth and legend. Common features include wings, horns, and the ability to breathe fire. |
| Elf | A mythical humanoid creature endowed with magical powers. Common features include a slender figure and pointy ears. |
| Equine | A horse, zebra, unicorn, or pony character. |
| Feline | A cat, lion, or tiger character. |
| Ghost | A manifestation of a disembodied spirit or soul. |
| Imp | A smaller demon, usually characterized by their childish and mischievous behavior. They are sometimes described as being related to fairies. |
| Insectoid | An insect/bug character. |
| Lagomorph | A character that belongs to the Lagomorph order of animals including Rabbits/Bunnies, Hares, Jackrabbits, and Pika. |
| Marsupial | A character that belongs to the Marsupial family of animals, which includes Kangaroos, Koalas, Opossums, and Bandicoots among others. |
| Merfolk | A Monster Hybrid with a Human upper-half and the tail of a fish from the waist down. |
| Mustelid | A character that belongs to the Mustelidae family of animals including Otters, Badgers, Wolverines, Weasels, and Martens among others. |
| Orc | A humanoid creature, often inspired by Tolkein's orcs (corrupt version of Elf). Common features include pointy ears, muscular body, green skin, tusks, and generally a rough appearance. |
| Primate | Characters whose species fall within either the Strepsirrhines or Haplorhines families including Monkeys, Gorillas, Orangutans, Lemurs, Lorisids, Baboons, and Chimpanzees. Not to be confused with the Human tag.
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| Procyonid | Characters whose species fall within the Procyonid family including Raccoons, Kinkajous, Ringtails, Olingos, Coatimundis. Olinguitos, and Catomistles. |
| Reptilian | A snake, crocodile or lizard character. |
| Rodent | A mouse, rat, squirrel, beaver or hamster character. |
| Sergal | Fictional alien species from the Vilous universe by Mick Ono and Kiki-UMA. They are often anthropromorphic, having a fur-covered body and a shark-shaped head. |
| Shark | A shark character. |
| Slime Creature | An amorphous organism made of viscous and typically transparent liquid. Often takes a Human form. |
| Ursidae | A bear character. |
| Vampire | A mythical creature, usually humanoid in appearance, and typically undead. Common features include fangs, which are used to feed on the blood of the living, sometimes mind control and shapeshifting (especially into a bat), weakness to garlic, crucifixes, and sunlight, and a seductive allure. |
Identity
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| Female | A character possessing only female qualities. |
| Gay | Works featuring Male characters who identify as homosexual or romantic themes between Male characters.
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| Lesbian | Works featuring Female characters who identify as homosexual or romantic themes between Female characters.
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| Male | A character possessing only male qualities. |
Content Warnings
Tags that must be included if your game matches the criteria.
General
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| Epilepsy Warning | Contains flashing effects that could trigger photosensitive epilepsy. |
| Jumpscare | Contains an abrupt image, sound, or event meant to scare or surprise. One example is The Scary Maze Game. |
| Volume Warning | Contains sudden or unexpected loud noises that could irritate one's ears. |
Heavy Topics
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| Addiction | Works focusing on drug abuse, its effects, and/or recovery. |
| Animal Cruelty | Works depicting or discussing acts of violence or abuse against animals, not including humanoid fantasy creatures. |
| Domestic Violence | Works depicting or discussing acts of violence or abuse against a person living in one's household, especially a member of one's immediate family. |
| Heavy Themes | Works focused on topics that people could potentially find upsetting, or would be inappropriate for young (under 13) audiences. |
| Real World Violence | Works which contain detailed content about historical tragedies and deaths, e.g. genocides, massacres, terrorist attacks, etc. |
| Suicide | Works depicting or discussing suicide or suicidal thoughts. |
NSFW Content Warnings
Animations
These tags are intended for animations, but can also be applied to games.
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Action | Animations that feature emphasis on dynamic movement and physical feats. | Madness Combat |
| Advertisement | Animations that are intended to sell or raise awareness about a particular product or service. | Lower My Bills June 2003 Banner Ads Set 2 (United States) |
| Comedy | Animations where the main emphasis is on humor or amusement. | Mario's Castle Calamity |
| Drama | Animations that typically feature long narratives and more serious forms of storytelling. | Law of Talos |
| Experimental | Animations that focus on exploring the medium of animation in general. Usually non-narrative. | HeartCore |
| Informative | Animations whose purpose is to educate or inform about a topic. | About Catalyst Pictures LTD |
| Loading Screen | Animations featuring only a real or fake program initializer. | Piposh Store Loading Screen |
| Loop | Animations that are typically very short and are intended to repeat indefinitely. | Caramelldansen |
| Music Video | Animations that are primarily set to or feature a piece of music as the main focus. | Bestest Bud: The Video |
| Other | Animations that don't fit other tags. | A Sticks Life |
| Screensaver | Animations that were intended to be utilized as computer screensavers. | Queste Screensaver |
| Spam | Typically low quality animations that are intentionally used to flood or spam content submissions on websites like Newgrounds. | 3ear |
| Walk Cycle | Animations that feature emphasis on characters walking or running, often in a loop. | Florence walking |
Animation Memes
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Caipirinha | Works with a character dancing to a nightcore version of the Brazilian song "Caipirinha" by Carinho Ariane Kranz. The dance is usually based on one Tomo briefly performs to tease Chiyo in Episode 20 of Azumanga Daioh. | Caipirinha - Jena and Akio |
| Caramelldansen | A series of animated dance videos featuring the nightcore version (remixed by DJ Speedycake) of the song "Caramelldansen" by Caramell. | Caramelldansen |
| Danjo | Works where characters either act out the fan-made music video for the song "Danjo" by Taro, or perform the "Danjo Dance". | for danjo loving people! |
| Finger Spin | Works where a character does the finger dance performed by Rikka Takanashi in the opening for Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions. Tag can be used for both the original version and the "Woop Woop" version based on a YouTube video remix which has cutaways to the character twerking. | Gata Finger Spin |
| Fukkireta | Works where a character bob their head left and right to the tune of the denpa song "Ochame Kinou". Based on a video from NicoNico of Kasane Teto of UTAU doing the same. | Fukkireta Xadron |
| Leek Spin | Works of characters spinning a leek or other item, often to the tune of Finnish Folk song "Ievan Polka". Tag can be used for both the original animation based on Orihime Inoue from Bleach, or the "shaking" version based on Hatsune Miku's cover of the song. | KyonKyon Leek Spin |
| Paffendorf | A series of works utilizing a sped up version of "Under My Skin" by techno group Paffendorf. These animations can be based on two versions, one involving Mumo from Sumomomo Momomo, or a remixed version involving Konata from Lucky Star. | Gaffondorf |
| Pappara | Works that follow the dance in the intro of the anime Galaxy Angel Rune, often to the tune of DJ Speedycake's remix of "Baby Boy" by Me & My. | Cytomander's Baby Boy FLASH |
| PoPiPo | Works based on the Hatsune Miku song "PoPiPo" composed by Lamaze-P. | Smash Bros Po Pi Po |
| smooooch ・∀・ | Works based on the music video for the song "smooooch ・∀・" by DJ Kosuke Saito / kors k, which appeared in the rhythm game Beatmania IIDX 16:Empress in 2008. | Smoooch ・∀・ Corax, Raven and Edward version WIP |
| Triple Baka | Works based on the music video for the Hatsune Miku song "Triple Baka" composed by Lamaze-P. | warrior cats triple baka |
| What is Love? | Works based on the 1996 SNL skit "The Roxbury Guys", where characters are in a car dancing to Haddaway's "What is Love". | What Is Lurve |
Source
These tags describe where a work was sourced from if it was not embedded on a website.
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Disc Media | Games that are derived from a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray disc. These will often, but not always, be enclosed in an executable file. | Цифровой мир начинается здесь |
| Executable File | Games that are extracted from a program file, most commonly .exe. | Birlikdə Öyrənək |
Franchises
Game Engines
A game engine is a framework or program used to make games at a higher level. Note: A platform is not the same thing as a game engine. For example, Unity Web Player content should not have the Unity WebGL tag, and Unity WebGL content should have the HTML5 platform. At least three games should be created in an engine to warrant a tag for that engine.
Also note that for fantasy computers like the TIC-80, only games made with the engine should get the tag. The engine itself and its web client are written with a different tool, such as the C programming language.
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| Away3D | Open source 3D engine and library for Flash. |
| Bitsy | Visual game engine by Adam Le Doux that exports to HTML5. For games "where you can walk around and talk to people and be somewhere". |
| Butano | Open source modern C++ game engine by GValiente for Game Boy Advance games. Does not export to web, but emulators in Flash and HTML5 exist. |
| Box2D Engine | Open source physics engine used for 2D games. Exports to Flash and HTML5. |
| B² Online | Game engine by Isotonix that exports to Flash. For brick breaker games. |
| CityEngine | Interactive modeling tool designed to display cities or other locations in a 3D manner. Made by Esri. Exports to HTML5. |
| Clickteam Fusion | Game engine by Clickteam. Exports to HTML5, Flash, and non-web platforms. |
| CocoonJS | Game engine by Ludei that exports to HTML5. It went defunct in 2019. |
| Cocos | Pair of game engines made by YAJI Software, Cocos Creator and Cocos2d-x. There are some differences between the two, but both export to HTML5 and non-web platforms. |
| Construct | Visual game engine by Scirra Ltd. Exports to HTML5. |
| CreateJS | Set of modular game libraries by gskinner. Made for HTML5. |
| Defold | Open source game engine which exports to HTML5. Originally developed as a proprietary engine for King. |
| EasyRPG | Open source game engine designed for role-playing games. Exports to HTML5. |
| EDWARD | Game engine by Sophie Houlden designed for Flash platformers. |
| Effect Games Engine | Open source game engine by jhuckaby. Exports to HTML. Became defunct in 2011. |
| Egret | Game engine by Bailu Technology. Exports to HTML5 and non-web platforms. |
| Emulated | Game is written for a system and emulated online. Please note the Not Accepted Curations because most emulated games are banned. Not to be confused with Emulator tag.
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| FlashPunk | Game library for Flash. |
| Flickgame | Open source game engine for making minimalistic HTML5 games consisting of up to 16 scenes. |
| Flixel | Game engine by Adam Atomic that exports to Flash. |
| FutureSplash | Original version of Flash before being bought by Macromedia and rebranded as Flash. |
| GameMaker: Studio | Visual game engine by YoYo Games that exports to HTML5. |
| GB Studio | Visual game engine by Chris Maltby for Gameboy Games. Exports to HTML5 using the Gameboy Online emulator. |
| GDevelop | Game engine and toolkit by Florian Rival that exports to HTML5. |
| Godot | Game engine by Juan Linietsky and Ariel Manzur that exports to HTML5. |
| Greenfoot | Game library for Java by the University of Kent. |
| HaxeFlixel | Game Engine for creating cross-platform games. |
| HaxePunk | Open Source game engine based on FlashPunk. Exports to Flash, HTML5, and non-web platforms. |
| HTML5 Storybook Engine | Open Source engine for interactive books, developed for PBS Kids. |
| Idle Game Maker | Visual game engine by Orteil and Opti for clicker games. Does not export, but can be hosted on dashnet.org as HTML5. |
| Impact | Open source game engine by Dominic Szablewski. Exports to HTML5. |
| iXL | Portable educational system by Fisher-Price. The SDK by Sarbakan exports to Flash and was used for games and stories distributed through activity packs. |
| jEngine | Game engine by Jacob Correia which exports to Flash. |
| Jing | Screen recorder that exports to Flash and PNG images. Replaced in 2020 with TechSmith Capture, which removes Flash support. |
| Laya | Game engine by Souyou Network Technology that exports to Flash and HTML5. Primarily used for games distributed through WeChat, but standalone games exist. |
| libGDX | Game engine and toolkit by Mario Zechner. Exports to HTML5 and non-web platforms. |
| Live2D | Animation engine that renders 2D assets into pseudo-3D. Exports to HTML5. |
| LÖVE | Game engine for Lua games that exports to HTML5. |
| MD-GameCreator | Game engine by Danny Menato that exports to Flash. Designed for jigsaw puzzles and shoot 'em ups. |
| meiker | Free game engine that converts .psd files to playable dress up games. Exports to HTML5. |
| MelonJS | Open source game engine that exports to HTML5. |
| Monogatari | Game engine by Hyuchia that exports to HTML5. Designed for visual novels and dating simulators. |
| Nintendo Web Framework | Game engine created by Nintendo for the Wii U. Exports to HTML5. |
| Octo | Open source game engine by John Earnest based on the 1977 Chip-8 VM. |
| OpenFL | Framework for creating HTML5 and Flash applications. |
| p5.js | Game library for HTML5. Primarily used for animations, but supports games as well. |
| Pannellum | Open source panorama engine by Matthew Petroff. Exports to HTML5. |
| Phaser | Game engine and toolkit by Photon Storm Ltd. that exports to HTML5. |
| PICO-8 | Game engine and toolkit by Lexaloffle that exports to HTML5. Designed for retro-style games with a 128x128 resolution. |
| PixiJS | Game library for HTML5 by GoodBoy Digital. |
| PlayCanvas | Open source game engine that exports to HTML5. Designed for both games and displaying 3D models. |
| PuzzleScript | Game engine by Stephen Lavelle that exports to HTML5. Designed for puzzle games. |
| React Engine | Open source library by Meta for HTML5 applications. |
| Ren'Py | Open source game engine by Tom Rothamel that exports to HTML5. Designed for visual novels. |
| RPG Maker | Game engine and toolkit by Enterbrain that exports to HTML5. Designed for role-playing games. |
| Sburb Engine | Game engine by Alexis Beingessner for HTML5 adventure games. |
| Saola Animate | Animation engine by Atomi Systems that exports to HTML5. |
| Scratch | Visual game engine by MIT that exports to Flash and HTML5. Designed for children. |
| ShiVa Engine | Game engine by ShiVa Technologies. Exports to HTML5. Not to be confused with the ShiVa3D Plugin. |
| Stencyl | Visual game engine by Jonathan Chung that exports to Flash and HTML5. |
| Stereoscope Applet | Java Applet that lets you view images with different effects with it's own file format (.jps). |
| Stornaway | Game engine designed for choose your own adventure FMV games in HTML5. |
| Tic-80 | Game engine and Toolkit by Nesbox that exports to HTML5. Designed for retro-style games with a 240x136 resolution. |
| The Modding Tree | Game engine for HTML5. Designed for idle games. |
| Three.js | Game library by Ricardo Cabello. Designed for 3D experiments. |
| Twine | Visual game engine and toolkit by Chris Klimas that exports to HTML5. For interactive fiction. |
| TyranoBuilder | Visual game engine by STRIKEWORKS that exports to HTML5. For visual novels. |
| UnicodeTiles | Javascript engine by Tapio Vierros for Roguelike HTML5 games. |
| Unity WebGL | Game engine and toolkit by Unity Technologies that exports to HTML5. Not to be confused with Unity Web Player. |
| Unreal Engine | Game engine and toolkit by Epic Games that exports to HTML5 and non-web platforms. |
| WADE | Game engine by Clockwork Chilli that exports to HTML5. |
Game Jam
Games created from scratch during a very limited amount of time, usually between 24 to 72 hours, following a provided theme.
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| 0h Game Jam | An annual jam where participants make games in the hour before the end of daylight savings time, thereby making a game in "zero" hours. |
| 7DRL Challenge | An annual event centered on developing Roguelikes in a week. |
| Ahoge | A series of Japanese game jams. |
| BC Game Jam | An annual game jam hosted inside the University of British Columbia. |
| BenBonk Game Jam | Seventy-two hour game jams hosted by the YouTuber BenBonk. |
| BIGJam | The Berlin Indie Game Jam is a yearly gathering of creative people of all kinds from (mostly) all over Europe. |
| Butterscotch ShenaniJam | An annual game jam hosted by indie dev studio Butterscotch Shennanigans. |
| Candy Jam | A game jam hosted in 2014 in protest of King trademarking the word "candy". |
| Casual Gameplay Design Competition | 10 Game Jams hosted by Jay Is Games between 2006 and 2012. Some of them had sponsors. |
| Clicker Jam | A game jam focused on Incremental games, held every season. |
| Coolmath Game Jam | A jam hosted twice by Coolmath Games in 2019 and 2020. |
| Cyberpunk Jam | A cyperpunk themed jam hosted in March 2014. |
| Decade Jam | A less competitive jam aimed to create a game in 10 years. |
| Demake Jam | A jam held in 2018 where participants created a demake of a game or level. |
| Fantasy Console Game Jam | A week long jam hosted 3 times between 2017-2018 for making games with fantasy consoles, such as PICO-8. |
| Flappy Jam | A game jam centered around making games inspired by Flappy Bird, hosted in February 2014. |
| Flash Forward Jam | An annual game jam hosted by Newgrounds, where participants make Ruffle-friendly Flash interactives after the death of Flash. |
| Game Maker's Toolkit Game Jam | An annual game jam for the Game Maker's Toolkit's YouTube community. |
| Game in Ten Days | A series of jams organized on the Kongregate forums. |
| Game Jam Fábrica de Jogos | Annual game jams organized by the YouTuber Fábrica de Jogos. |
| Gay Western Jam | A game jam to commemorate/reclaim the anniversary of Brokeback Mountain's premiere, held in December 2019. |
| GBJam | An annual jam in which participants make games inspired by the Game Boy. |
| Global Game Jam | One of the biggest active game jams; held once a year. |
| GJ Fest | A game jam organized by Game Jolt that awarded a showcase of the game at GDC16. |
| Homestuck Game Jam | An one time jam for the 11th birthday of Homestuck. |
| JamForLeelah | A jam held in January-February 2015 to raise awareness of transgender youth and raise money to charity. |
| Java 4K Game Programming Contest | A series of informal contests to create Java games under 4KB of data. |
| js13kGames | An annual JavaScript coding competition where participants make browser games that are 13 kilobytes or less when zipped. |
| Lisp Game Jam | Seasonal game jams for works written in any dialect of Lisp. |
| LOWREZJAM | Annual jams for developing games with a resolution of 64x64 or less pixels. |
| Ludum Dare | One of the biggest active game jams; an online event held twice a year where games are made from scratch over a weekend. |
| Make-A-Thing Jam | A brief series of jams intended for SAE Institute Brisbane students and alumni in the Games Development course. |
| Metroidvania Month | A monthly jam where developers have one month to create a metroidvania style game. |
| Mini Jam | Jams hosted every fortnight for 72 hours featuring different themes and limitations. |
| NG Game Jam | An annual event that was hosted by Newgrounds from 2007-2021 exploring many different themes. |
| Nitrome Jam | A jam held in 2014 for the staff of Nitrome and its community members. |
| Nokia 3310 Jam | An annual jam where participants stylize their entries around the hardware limitations of the Nokia 3310. |
| Nordic Game Jam | An annual game jam based in Copenhagen. Developers are given a theme, restrictions, and around 40 hours to develop a title. |
| Octojam | A game jam for games made targeting the Chip-8 VM and its derivatives. |
| One Game a Month | Jams focused in developing a game under a month. |
| Pastel Jam | A one time jam challenging developers to create a game using an exclusively pastel art style. |
| Pizza Jam | A series of jams where the top three entrants will have a pizza paid for and sent regardless of where they're based, on the condition that the jam organizer gets to choose the toppings. |
| Ruin Jam 2014 | A one time game jam hosted in September 2014 celebrating the nonexistent death of video games. |
| SPJam | Annual Brazilian jams hosted by Vortex Game Studios. |
| Starmen.Net Funfest | Bi-seasonal jam created by the Starment.Net community for fan works related to EarthBound. |
| Stencyl Jam | Jams in which participants have 10 days to create a game using the Stencyl game engine. |
| The Boob Jam | A one time jam aiming to "demystify" the experience of having boobs and exploring subjects beyond titillation. |
| TGMBR JAM | A series of game jams organized on the The Game Makers Brasil forums. |
| Touhou Fan Game Jam | Bi-annual jams for fan works related to Touhou Project. |
| Twiny Jam | A jam held in March-April 2015 where participants made a 'tiny' (300 words or less) Twine game. |
| xkcd Game Jam | A jam held in 2017 where participants created games based on the xkcd webcomic. |