Releases

Current Version

Version 4.1 (September 16, 2020)

Official releases for the Video Game Metadata Schema (VGMS) project. Materials are available as downloadable PDFs or through the Open Metadata Registry (OMR).

Controlled Vocabularies

Taxonomy of Video Game Development Artifacts

Best Practices for Organizing and Maintaining Collections of Game Development Artifacts

Multilingual Video Game Genre Taxonomy (English/Japanese/German)

Gameplay Genre (MARC Genre/Form Source Code: vgmsgg)

Mechanics

Mood

Narrative Genre (MARC Genre/Form Source Code: vgmsng)

Protagonist

Setting

Setting – Place

Setting – Time Period

Setting – World

Theme

Trope

Trope – Character

Trope – Narrative

Visual Style

Visual Style – Style

Visual Style – Color

Visual Style – Light

Older Versions

Version 3.1.1 (June 3, 2016)

Version 3.1 (June 22, 2015)

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Version 2.0 (March 31, 2014)

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