Quote Originally Posted by HopeDagger
How "powerful" does each genre need to be in the game? For instance, Final Fantasy 7 was an RPG, but featured "sub games" that fell into the Racing and RTS categories. Would these count, or do they need to be an integral part of the game?
The idea is to make 1 game not a whole bunch. Mini-games are fine, but the whole theme of the competition is to try and mix the genres together and see what you can do.

You can put in all kinds of mini-games to add to the genre color count as much as you feel is possible, but...

if you do this badly you'll likely get lower scores from the judges as they will be scoring you on how they felt you have integrated the genre types together.

The better you do this the higher the Innovation score you'll get from the judges. And the more it makes sense as a game the higher the Playability score will be too.