Interesting article listing game genres, including Programming Games, Demos, Utiltities, etc...

As you might tell from the title, this listing is extremely complete.  It appears to be the chapter out of a book written on the subject of gaming.  I haven't fully investigated this article, but after some chats with the MVP crowd over the past week, I think some people might be interested in a comprehensive genre list.  I think I was pressing that there were between 15-20 different genres, so this guy definitely has me beat in terms of division of game type.

Genre and the Video Game - Dang friend 42.  Though not all appear to be games (table-top for instance), I have seen table top games make it onto a console.

Published Sunday, April 11, 2004 3:30 AM by Justin Rogers
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Sunday, April 11, 2004 7:45 AM by Plip

# re: Interesting article listing game genres, including Programming Games, Demos, Utiltities, etc...

What's scary is that there are games without Genre, they're mixes of several Genre's. I saw that when Gladiator: Sword of Vengence was pushed to Sony and Microsoft for sumission whilst I was at Acclaim.

None of us could agree on what Genre it was in.
Sunday, April 11, 2004 7:54 AM by Justin Rogers

# re: Interesting article listing game genres, including Programming Games, Demos, Utiltities, etc...

Yes, in those cases you have to classify each game or playability element as a separate genre for purposes of classifying the game. When you do that, you start to define a new genre, thus creating a Venn diagram of the intersections of many and all genres.

We had a thought about something like Pac Man. For the time it was a kind of action game, but would probably be considered a puzzle game today. What about Pong? I would classify that as a sports game, but others would classify it differently. The old games are interesting because each new game created it's own temporary genre since the playability, graphics and techniques were so new.

At the end of the day Andy Smith defined a game genre in a manner I find befitting. He noted that a game's genre is defined solely on the skills it takes to play the game. While we left the definition there, I'm thinking it would be nice to define the skills for each genre to see how well this stands up.
Sunday, April 11, 2004 8:14 AM by Plip

# re: Interesting article listing game genres, including Programming Games, Demos, Utiltities, etc...

Yeah it must be hard for people today though, the genre they decide to slot their game in to predetermines their audience.

I'm sorry I missed the chance to chat with you over the subject, sounds like it was a good night! :)

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