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[alt text: a pair of posts by strudel-fatpaws on tumblr. The first post says, "who was the guy who said every indie game is named either 'empoisoned' or 'swumbles big jumble'. i swear this is a real thing someone said". The second post says, "gonna start sorting my steam library like this". Included with the second post is a screenshot of a Steam library, in which games are sorted into two categories titled "Empoisoned" and "Swumbles Big Jumble". Under the "Empoisoned" category, the games listed are: "Antichamber", "Balatro", "Pseudoregalia", "ULTRAKILL", and "Wobbledogs". Under the "Swumbles Big Jumble" category, the games listed are: "The Binding of Isaac Rebirth", "Orbo's Odyssey", "Patrick's Parabox", "the Gnorp Apologue", and "Will You Snail?".]

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[-] smeg@feddit.uk 37 points 3 months ago

"Wobbledogs" definitely has more of a Swumble's Big Jumble energy though

[-] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

big agree tbh

[-] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 months ago

Y axis: Empoisoned or Swumble’s Big Jumble X axis: Menus or Parkour

I think we are moving past the outdated genre system and finally finding a way to classify games properly

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 12 points 3 months ago
[-] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

In trms of the vibe that the title gives off, I guess. First category is a fairly serious-sounding, usually 1 word title, and the second category seems to be a grab-bag of silly titles and titles where the first word is "______'s"

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 points 3 months ago
[-] julianh@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

I feel like this isn't exclusive to indie games.
Empoisoned games: Forespoken, Bloodborne, Metal Gear Rising Revengance

Swumbles Big Jumble games: Assassin's Creed (plus subtitle), John Madden Football (and other similarly titled sports games), any legend of zelda game.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The Swumbles Big Jumble naming scheme can probably be traced to ZX Spectrum games coded by 15-year-olds in northern England in 1983 or so

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Even earlier, Colossal Cave Adventure from 1975 is the earliest one I can think of.

Likewise Dungeon from the same year might be the earliest Empoisoned

EDIT: Nah, Pong predates Dungeon.

One of the first arcade games (1971) was Computer Space. Kinda feels halfway between the two, so that's fun.

EDIT 2: Think I found the earliest Jumble's Big Bumble: Hunt The Wumpus, first distributed in May of 1973

[-] testman@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

Was it Yahtzee? Sounds like something he would come up with.

[-] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

you might be right?

[-] Jimbo@yiffit.net 3 points 3 months ago

I appreciate the name strudel-fatpaws

[-] Kache@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Idgi -- is it saying that every game is either named "X" or "Y's X"?

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