What is a short... medium... long game?

[theatrx]

Just wondering what the criteria is for the above... How long is a short, medium, long game...?  Just thought I'd ask since heaven knows I don't want to post it in the wrong place!  Steve

I love AGS

[Ubel]

Well, short games usually take less than 30 mintes to play through. And medium length games should take something like 30 minutes or 1 hour to play. And the long games... well they should be about in the same lengths as the classic Sierra or Lucas adventures.

[Nikolas]

Even better, check the games page on www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk

Try a couple of games from each section. This will give you a better idea for what short, medium and long games are.

Furthermore, if I'm not mistaken, you can vote for each and every game you play, and you can say if it is in the right section or not...

[InCreator]

I think that recognition comes with amount of resources in game. Like characters, rooms and puzzles.

Short games vary from 1 to 6-7 rooms, have about 1-10 characters and hourful of puzzling.

Medium games are somewhere between 10-20 rooms. And about as much characters. Puzzles - something that takes a long evening or a whole day.

Anything bigger that this should be classified as "long".

[m0ds]

I'd classify a short game as up to 1 hour of gameplay, a medium as 1 - 5 hours and a long game anything more than 5 hours of gameplay...but each to their own!

The developers seem to have judged their games well, so far

[theatrx]

Thanks all for the info... I guess alot has to do with how good you are at games in general... you all seem to be old hands at this... me... I could be stuck somewhere for an hour and the answer was staring me right in the face... Thanks for the info. Steve

[Helm]

Your personal image is x-tremely creepy

[Andail]

Mods' classification doesn't really fit the categories right now, unfortunately

I guess if you're a rather slow player who gets stuck a lot, you might be able to play each full length game for more than 5 hours, but typically it would be shorter.
Of course, games like Pleurghburg are much longer, but I'd estimate that the average full length game would take around 3 hours for a fairly experienced player to complete.

The resources criteria are a bit better, but I believe InCreator is aiming a bit low - I think a full length game should have at least 40 rooms.

Some year ago I made a small research on this, so I think I'm about right there.

[vict0r]

Your personal image is x-tremely creepy

...*looks over at theatrx's pic* guah! Helm is all too right!