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THE MAJOR GENRE
YANTING ZHANG
WHAT IS A GENRE? Genres are categories of game characterized by
particular kinds of challenge, regardless of setting or game-world content.
GAMES Asteroids(action games) Deus Ex(RPG/shooter) Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
WORLD OF GOO Construction Puzzle solving Unusual physical mechanics.
CLASSIC GAME GENRES Shooter Games Action and Arcade Games Strategy Games Role-Playing Games Sports Games Vehicle Simulations Construction and Simulation Games Adventure Games Puzzle Games
SHOOTER GAMES Takes action at a distance Using ranged weapon. Aiming is a key skill Limited ammunition.
2D SHOOTERS
Awesomenauts, a multiplayer 2D shooter
Viewed from top-down or side-viewfixed first-person
Rare to keep track of ammunition(except for particularly powerful weapons)
3D SHOOTERS
Crysis 3, a 3D shooter with a particularly rich environment
First –person perspective (FPS)Third-person perspective
Gravity sound shadows collisions
ACTION AND ARCADE GAMES Action games
Physical challenges Incorporate puzzle, racesVariety of conflict challengesSimple economic challengesSeldom strategic or conceptual challengesSubdivided into variety of subgenresArcade games
business model of earning money Unwinnable
PLATFORM GAMES
Spelunky, 2D platform game
Supernatural jumping abilityUnrealistic physics
FIGHTING GAME
Skullgirls, a cartoonish fighting game
Reaction timeTiming
Hand-to-hand combat
STRATEGY GAMES Strategic, tactical and logistical
challenges. Economic and exploration challenges Fall into two main subgenres:
Classical turn-based gamesReal-time strategy games.
ROLE-PLAYING GAMES (RPGS) Allow player to interact with a game
world Growing from person into superhero Computer role-playing game (CRPG)
Quest or story of the game and character growth
Quest requires some combatRules define character growth occurs
SPORTS GAMES
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011
VEHICLE SIMULATIONS
Cockpit view of Forza Motorsport 4
Verisimilitude – an apparently close relationship to realityFeeling of movement
Vehicle simulations
Flight simulators Driving simulatorsBoats/
trains,etc.
Civilian MilitaryOrganized
racingImaginary
racing
CONSTRUCTION AND SIMULATION GAMES
Also called construction and management simulations (CMSs)
Farm Ville, a hugely successful browser-based CMS
ADVENTURE GAMES
Heavy Rain
PUZZLE GAMES
A series of related challenges
Recognizing patterns
Logical deductions
SUMMARY Genres are not meant to constrain your
imagination, but they provide a framework for design, a sort of scaffold upon which to build your game without inventing everything from scratch—which lowers some of the risk in designing a new game.