You're playing too many computer games... mum?

[PsychoSerenity]

Where does the "biscuit game" stand in this semantic debate?

Yeah, it's got rules, a challenge, winners and losers - I'd say it qualifies.

[Trolldor]

Actually it does qualify. There's a reason they're called 'flash games'.
It's a new attribution, but that doesn't make it any less of a game because it's not in 3-d with rendered physics.

Who do you think you're talking to here? I'm well aware that there are plenty (probably still the majority) of computer games that are 2d.

I'm talking about the actual definition of a game (which admittedly is fairly loose and philosophical) - That includes sports, board games, card games, computer games, and excludes toys, puzzles, interactive art, and webs of social obligation. Obviously there's plenty of crossover in the definitions, but from what I've heard (again I should probably say, I haven't played it myself, but I have seen videos of it and read about it) Farmville is at least at the very edge of what could be defined as a game.

But it isn't anything new. Harvest Moon was doing on the N64 what Farmville does in a rudimentary fashion - watering and maintaining crops.
Harvest moon is considered a simulator.

[Clinton Huxley]

Even by Ratioanalia's elevated standards, this argument is magnificently futile. I salute it!

[GreyICE]

and one group of gamers wants to attack another group of gamers

What?

Who do you think you're talking to here? I'm well aware that there are plenty (probably still the majority) of computer games that are 2d.

I'm talking about the actual definition of a game (which admittedly is fairly loose and philosophical) - That includes sports, board games, card games, computer games, and excludes toys, puzzles, interactive art, and webs of social obligation. Obviously there's plenty of crossover in the definitions, but from what I've heard (again I should probably say, I haven't played it myself, but I have seen videos of it and read about it) Farmville is at least at the very edge of what could be defined as a game.

Isn't it nice when someone answers their own question?

God you sound exactly like that woman on Fox News attacking Mass Effect. It's like direct quotes. "I've seen videos of it and read about it?"

[JimC]

Where does the "biscuit game" stand in this semantic debate?

And the old-fashioned "hide the sausage" game...