An interesting article came to my attention today about the Big Triangle. For those who don’t know the Big Triangle is a concept that Scott McCloud explains in his book Understanding Comics. I highly advise reading the book. The link below is the translated post of the original. Here he surmises on the usefulness of this categorizing system for games as more conducive to game design. Recently there has been talk about the unhelpfulness of modern game genres and whether if there isn’t a better way to categorize them. This is an interesting way to think of things and change from First Person Shooter, Third Person Shooter, Real Time Strategy, Action/Adventure, Rhythm, Platformer, etc etc.

Rather than repost all the thoughts here I’d rather just link you.

http://wordsonplay.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/the-big-triangle/