Hi guys, I'm new to hosting an arcade website so I don't really have the same experience that many of you do, so I'm hoping you can help!  

 

I'm trying to set my arcade up for the first time, and I have a couple of basic categories:

• [New Games] -- this is my default category
• Action
• Adventure & RPG
• Classics
• Cards & Casino
• Holiday
• Racing
• IO
• Platform
• Puzzle
• Shooting
• Sports
• Strategy

 

What do you guys have?  

lol... Categorising can be a nightmare.

Anyway, for better or worse my site probably has the most cats of anywhere (139, and I suspect the maximum allowed may be 143!?).  Hovering over a cat name may show a longhand definition - in our view - of that cat.

 

You could use these as a base and simply delete the detail you don't want.

 

 

 

52 minutes ago, Eagle_Kiwi said:

Anyway, for better or worse my site probably has the most cats of anywhere (139, and I suspect the maximum allowed may be 143!?).

There actually is no limit in the arcade itself, it's a server limit.  The # of input variables is set to 1,000 (on 99.9% installations out in the world) and each category has 6 or 7 input fields.  The variable in php.ini could be edited to double or triple that and then you'd have 286'ish limit.

 

When the new category/sub-category editor is put into place, it will be a non-issue as there will not be that many input fields on the screen at one time.

15 hours ago, Eagle_Kiwi said:

lol... Categorising can be a nightmare.

Anyway, for better or worse my site probably has the most cats of anywhere (139, and I suspect the maximum allowed may be 143!?).  Hovering over a cat name may show a longhand definition - in our view - of that cat.

 

You could use these as a base and simply delete the detail you don't want.

LOL .... I know!  Every arcade website that I went to go survey had their own system of categories, and it seems like you can keep adding more and more categories 🙂  

 

From a UIX standpoint, I do believe there's a maximum 'human limit' when enough is enough.  I don't know what the magic number is, but I would personally probably cap it somewhere like 12 - 15.  There's a well known psychological behavior of "overchoice," when humans cannot cognitively process a decision when faced with too many options. 

14 hours ago, tubesock said:

There actually is no limit in the arcade itself, it's a server limit.  The # of input variables is set to 1,000 (on 99.9% installations out in the world) and each category has 6 or 7 input fields.  The variable in php.ini could be edited to double or triple that and then you'd have 286'ish limit.

 

When the new category/sub-category editor is put into place, it will be a non-issue as there will not be that many input fields on the screen at one time.

 

The subcategories would help a lot.  I know certain categories like Casinos or Words or Puzzles can cover a lot of possibilities.  

 

Have you thought about allowing games to be 'tagged', so they can create virtual albums or virtual organization?  For example, a game could be tagged as adventure, holidays, santa and it would potentially fit into any one of those collections.  

On 12/30/2019 at 9:56 PM, JoelR said:

Hi guys, I'm new to hosting an arcade website so I don't really have the same experience that many of you do, so I'm hoping you can help!  

 

I'm trying to set my arcade up for the first time, and I have a couple of basic categories:

• [New Games] -- this is my default category
• Action
• Adventure & RPG
• Classics
• Cards & Casino
• Holiday
• Racing
• IO
• Platform
• Puzzle
• Shooting
• Sports
• Strategy

 

What do you guys have?  

 TRY This friend 

 

 

cat img.rar

Thank you @Oak for the category images.  

 

@tubesock I would strongly prefer that I could upload my own custom category images (and with a full banner or rectangle size), not these little avatars.  Categories should look different from games.  

It's entirely up to you how you want yours to look and appeal to your community.

 

I have mine set up in the 0-9 and A, B, C etc category listing. 🙂