list_trends
The 50 conversations currently moving the games industry, each with what it is, why it matters, the markets it lands in, its stage, how old the row is, and where it sits on the Three Horizons: H1, the current system running down, H2, the transition and its four groups, H3, the emerging future, or perennial ground. The placements are an editorial reading, not a score, and every answer carries the key to them in horizons. A routing map rather than a synthesis: it names arguments and points at where they are happening, and takes no position on any of them. Filter by horizon, group, market, stage, category or a free-text query; every filter narrows the list and none of them ranks it. Rows come in the order /trends reads them, 14 to a page: page with offset. Name one by slug to read it in full, with its further reading and its claims: a dated timeline, figures, status, consequences, objections, talk and what to watch, each with the link it came from. A claim marked talk: true cites a player community: it shows what players are saying, which moves this industry, and weighs less than reporting. Never quote it as an event or a figure. A claim carrying retired came off its page on that date and is kept as the record: true when written, no longer part of the reading. This is the fastest-decaying data here — every row is dated, and anything older than about six months needs a refresh.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| slug | No | One trend by its permanent slug, as a list returns it. Comes back with its claims, and with its further reading unless include_further_reading says otherwise. The other filters are ignored when this is set. | |
| group | No | One of the four groups inside h2: shifts that make room for h3, rules being rewritten, moves that prolong h1, and bets that stalled. Only h2 trends carry one. | |
| limit | No | Rows per page, default and at most 14 without further reading and 10 with it. A page is the next rows in the order described, never the top ones — nothing here is ranked. | |
| query | No | Free text, matched against the name, what it is, why it matters, where to follow it, its category, its horizon label and line, and the titles of its further reading. All words must appear. A word filter, not a semantic search: "layoffs" finds the layoff trend, a synonym the rows never use finds nothing. Omit to browse a filter instead. | |
| stage | No | Dominant is sustained mainstream coverage for a year or more. Emerging is real and accelerating. Perennial recurs cyclically. Receding was dominant and is cooling, kept so dated coverage is recognisable as dated. | |
| market | No | Trends that reach this market: tagged to it directly, reached through an EU tag, or global. Each row then says which, in market_relevance, and the list comes back closest first. Most trends in games are global and apply everywhere. | |
| offset | No | Rows to skip before the first one returned, for paging. Default 0. The note on each page says what to pass for the next. | |
| horizon | No | h1 is the currently dominant system, losing its fit. h3 is the early working examples of what may replace it. h2 is the turbulent ground between them, sorted into four groups. perennial is the pressures every horizon has to answer. | |
| category | No | ||
| include_further_reading | No | Default false, and true when slug is given. Further reading roughly doubles a row, so at most 10 rows travel with it; ask for a row by slug to read one in full. |