The video game awards happen once a year, https://thegameawards.com/
Video game genre will be defined by Wikipedia, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_genres
For example, if a shooter is the winner then the action category wins per Wikipedia.
This question will resolve when the 2024 Game of the Year winner is announced. If a game is multiple genres per Wikipedia then multiple options will resolve yes.
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@Tripping The resolution states "as defined by Wikipedia". Astro bot is defined as a platformer that, as Muga Sofer pointed out, is under action on Wikipedia. Action-adventure is separate on Wikipedia and has its own subcategories. You are pointing out the genres as defined by the game awards.
@AlexanderRudiuk What makes Astro Bot a platformer? That's just as arbitrary a designation as anything else. You can pretend this isn't the most ridiculous market ever but I don't think there's a way to spin this in a way that makes it seem sensible
@Bayesian I don't think it's precise, even with wikipedia's definitions it's still completely an open question. The argument for Astro as "action" first requires you to assume that the most important detail about it is that it's possible for some people to call it a "platformer", but there are a dozen other starting points that get you to completely different answers
@Tripping oh maybe I'm missing some context. basically in my mind:
If wikipedia unambiguously called Astro an action game, and not an action/adventure game, then this should unambiguously resolve to that.
If wikipedia has some vague definitions and the creator determines subjectively that those apply more to action than action/adventure, then it's obviously the creator's choice unless it breaks ToS (which it likely wouldn't), but whether it's the "correct decision" would be much more up to debate.
I had assumed it was the former, and if it's the latter then yeah that's tricky. (I hadn't been following closely enough to know either way, sorry.)
@Bayesian Wikipedia very clearly calls it a platformer (in the opening section and the info box, the only genre referenced on the page AFAICT); and Wikipedia's page of genres, linked in the question description, lists platformers as a subgenre of action game.
The options were, I assume, chosen based on the linked page. This seems pretty much the exact situation outlined in the description, except with "platformer" instead of "shooter".
I do agree that Wikipedia's distinction between "action" and "action-adventure" is weird and pretty arbitrary.
In fact, it seems like someone edited the Wikipedia page just today to say "platformer, action-adventure" in the infobox, presumably in reference to the award! https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Astro_Bot&diff=1263503303&oldid=1263452508&variant=en
@Kraalnaxx Based on the resolution source, platformers are considered a subgenre of Action, so I'm pretty sure it should resolve YES.
Video game genre will be defined by Wikipedia, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_genres
For example, if a shooter is the winner then the action category wins per Wikipedia.