Re: VideoGame proposal

RolePlayingGame seems specific while at least some of the properties (min/max players at the very least) seem common to other types of game.
Would it make more sense to simply have /Game as a creative work?

Owen Stephens
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On 15 May 2014, at 11:48, Yuliya Tikhokhod <tilid@yandex-team.ru> wrote:

> This is proposal from Yandex (one of the schema.org sponsors).
>  
> There are many sites dedicated to games (for example, http://store.steampowered.com/app/244850/, http://www.gamespot.com/eve-online/, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeptolab.ctr2.f2p.google). They contain some specific information, for which we have no specific classes and properties in schema.org. 
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> We made separate class for game as a creative work (with  complicated rules, characters, narrative). And called it RolePlayingGame. Maybe this is not a very good name and we will be thankful if you suggest better name for class describing games with complicated rules, fictional characters and specific locations. 
> Then VideoGame class is a child of two parents -  RolePlayingGame and SoftwareApplication. 
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> We also added some additional properties to SoftwareApplication class.
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> This is test build of schema.org with this proposal
> http://sdo-yavg.appspot.com/VideoGame
> http://sdo-yavg.appspot.com/RolePlayingGame
> http://sdo-yavg.appspot.com/OnlineGame
> http://sdo-yavg.appspot.com/SoftwareApplication
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> In attachment you can find pdf version of this proposal
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> -- 
> Yuliya Tikhokhod
> 
> Yandex
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> <VideoGame.pdf>