Hi Aaron,
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In the very first proposal I've added MobileGame type. There was some discussion similar to this one. And then we decide that gamePlatform will be enough.š
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As for Monopoly example. From one side it is little bit redundant, but from other side it shows I think something close to your proposal - it shows on a type level that Monopoly belong to VideoGame and MobileApplication. It is not necessary, but I think it can help if someone wants to filter objects by type.
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16.02.2015, 22:05, "Aaron Bradley" <aaranged@gmail.com>:

Thanks for your input Dan Scott.š I won't flog a dead horse, but I will point out that searchers do care if a game is mobile; while "android" + "game" queries do see a higher volume than "mobile" + "game" queries, "mobile" + "game" queries consistently see more volume than all [iOS term] + "game" queries combined.
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android games - 550000
ios games - 9900
ipad games - 27100
iphone games - 18100
mobile games - 74000
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free android games - 90500
free ipad games - 9900
free iphone games - 4400
free ios games- 1600
free mobile games - 27100
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[Data: šGoogle Keyword Planner, exact match queries, average monthly volume in the Google network based on Feb. 2014-Jan. 2015 inclusive]
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And if there's a consensus, then, that a VideoGame needs a gamePlatform declaration to be useful for users that are looking for games on the basis of whether or not a game runs on that user's system, then the Monopoly example on schema.org/VideoGame should be denuded of its second type declaration for "MobileApplication" since it seemingly adds no value yet introduces the complexity of an MTE.

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Dan Scott <dan@coffeecode.net> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 05:23:39PM -0800, Jerome Mourits wrote:
But isn't it more useful to be able to limit searches to your specific
platform rather than mobile in general?š If we had the site search that you
described, I'd still end up having to refine my search to find to the games
that are available for blackberry.

Nintendo 3ds has an appstore: http://www.nintendo.com/3ds/eshop
Consoles also tend to have their own flavor of shop (Playstation network,
xbox live arcade)

PS Vita runs on 3G on AT&T: http://us.playstation.com/psvita/att/
I have to agree. I don't care if a game is "mobile"; I care if it runs
on one of my devices. Populating gamePlatform is going to be required to
make the page meaningful in any context whether we stick with the broad
VideoGame or mint a new MobileVideoGame type.

As for the Google Custom Search Engine use case, you can use the
schema.org type as the first level of search, but then filter those
results by structured data attributes (such as gamePlatform).

The alternative to using a structured data attribute in Google CSE to
limit to the actual platform of interest would be to spawn a bunch of
types like AndroidVideoGame, iOSVideoGame, FirefoxOSVideoGame,
NintendoDSVideoGame, etc, and I don't think anyone wants that.

So, -1 to MobileVideoGame (unless, of course, I'm overlooking something
obvious).
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