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[mr. podunkian]

i checked this out and thought it was a really cool idea, but it's really silly to hand-tag sites. the appeal of a game like this is putting in a site you visit and having it spit out a related monster, but it breaks the illusion if you put something in and it spits out some random character, especially if the site that's entered is a big, albeit niche site.

plus having to update a site-list by hand means it'll be very difficult to maintain the game, whereas using a more dynamic, data driven solution means that if a site changes in any sort of way, the game will also change (as opposed to each monster being sort of a static thing).

my suggestion would be to use a hybrid method -- use hard-coded tags for particular sites, but fallback to a more data driven solution if a definition doesn't exist.

[Zaratustra]

How about letting people suggest tags for their own sites?

[Batmanifestdestiny]

Or you could find a way to implement StumbleUpon tags.  Then, you could devise some system for sorting through the misspellings and whatnot into some basic catagories.  Then, you wouldn't have to worry about tagging each site as long as someone has stumbled it (I've encountered maybe two unstumbled websites).

[oulipian]

it's really silly to hand-tag sites.

I agree! In the long term it's obviously not the best way to do things, but for now it suits my purposes while I work on other aspects of the game. Eventually I'd like to provide community features for users, including the ability to suggest sites and tags. For now, if you want to suggest a site, let me know about it here.

Stumbleupon is a good suggestion for getting site tags, but they don't seem to offer an API, so I don't think their data is accessible to developers.

[namre]

Ahahaha. QUite an interesting concept! I love it!