How do you organize your ios games and apps?

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  1. backtothis

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    I posted screenshots...
     
  2. Will011

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    yes I know, but I mean, what makes a game an adventure game, etc. And I don't know many of the games in the screenshot anyway.
     
  3. backtothis

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    An adventure game to me is any game with a campaign driven by a story that doesn't fall under RPG, FPS, platformers, or any other genres. Some examples would be Lego Harry Potter, City of Secrets, 9mm, and GTA: CW.
     
  4. Will011

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    thank you! what about casual? that's the main one i'm confused about :)
     
  5. backtothis

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    It's a broad definition honestly. Everyone has different perceptions on what games fall into a certain genre. For me, it's games that you can just pick up and play. More often than not, they'll be score-based and impossible to truly ever finish. Fruit Ninja, Flight Control, and Traffic Rush are three popular examples.
     
  6. Will011

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    alright, so things like angry birds too. Thanks a lot :)
     
  7. backtothis

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    Unless you consider Angry Birds to be a puzzle game, then yes.
     
  8. MidianGTX

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    Once you reach a certain number of apps, organizing them by genre stops making sense. There are just too many games that could be classified in more than one way and eventually you'll lose track of what lives where. Alphabetising is far more reliable, so it's what I've gone with. I've got several "C-3", R-2" folders but it still looks pretty neat.

    I do have a Utilities folder on my home screen though, along with Photography, Apple and Donut Games (because their icons all match ;)).
     
  9. backtothis

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    My girlfriend does that Midian, haha. She has a folder for every letter except V and Y, I think. It looks like it works pretty well. Actually, now that you put it that way, it makes a lot of sense to actually organize my games like that. Might just have to rearrange everything tonight. I'll let you know, lol.
     
  10. leafyguyds

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    When the folders feature first came out, I was all about having all of my apps organized into different folders. But, eventually, I just didn't like it anymore, so now I just have all of the system apps on the first page, and a folder for all of my non-games, and then all of my games are just there, in some sort of order. :D
     
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    This kind of a weird question, but I was thinking, what category does kairosoft's games go in?
     
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    I just have game dev, so I put it under pixel art. If you have enough, you oculd put it under sim(simulation) which would include games like the sims.
     
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    My first page is the default apps, then I have 10 pages of folders according to genre like platform, educational, photo, sports, rpg's, etc. Each folder has 9 games in it for a total of 500 apps/games at any one time, since I'm always having to dump some to get some because I'm crazy nuts with the IOS and spend so much money on games, and I have 64gb, too! I just hope the ipod 5 has 128 gb because I NEED more space!
     
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    I would probably put it in a sim folder. Or maybe a "highly addictive" folder. Or a "Don't open if you want to do anything productive today" folder lol.
     
  15. backtothis

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    Took me an hour, but now my my iPod looks like this:

    Edit: This should take away a lot of my OCD problems as far as organizing games is concerned. Good stuff. Need to get rid of that one "X" game though. Can't stand not having a folder for it, lol.
     

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    Yeah, I was just curious about what genre kairosoft games were (I have them all).

    @backtothis: that's actually a great idea! I might have to give alphebetizing a try, because it's hard to classify a lot of games.
     
  17. backtothis

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    Yeah, that's what Midian said a few posts back. It's exactly why I reorganized everything.
     
  18. crex

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    Why don't you combine some folders then? Like: A-C or W-Z
     
  19. backtothis

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    I wouldn't be able to do that in most cases, lol. That would only lead to more problems in any case xP.
     
  20. wootbean

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    isn't there a way to make a folder have one app in it. I think if you make a folder and then drag one app out then the folder will only have one app. maybe you have to do it in itunes :d
     

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