Week 6: Genre in Video Games
The video
game industry has grown substantially over years since its time of creation,
what was once an industry which had only a handful of simple video games and
game genres, that is until one being a very simple game called Pong then
started a boom for the video game industry. Pacman started the boom for arcade
videos as game similar to Pacman started to be developed and arcade games
evolved from there bur arcade games and Pong gave birth to many other genres
that it had to be put into categories that we know today, Action, Adventure, Fighting,
RPG and many more. Since there are so much genres that are available nowadays
it is extremely difficult for players to select which one that satisfies them
the most so as a result a lot of different types of games are played cause
people like to try a different variations of things to experiment. Genres are
like chronological description for the different varieties of games that are
out there it helps define the game, genres are used in the same application as
they used for books, and games have their genres assigned to them according to
their key mechanics or key aim and goal of the game similar to how genres are
assigned to books according to their subject etc. like for example if a game involves
a player in having to defeat the opponent in one on one hand to hand combat it
is labelled a fighting game. Genres are a way of helping the player or buyer of
the game what the video game is about it basically briefly describes the video
game. Genres also help people analyse a video game in an in - depth and
intelligent manner as it gives a foundation and sense of direction for analyzation.
As different styles of video games are being developed due to the many ideas of
young developers, new genres are also being created to label these new video
games as a conclusion as long as new ideas are being developed new labels will
keep on being invented to assign to these new ideas.
References
https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/genre-in-video-games-and-why-we-dont-talk-about-it
https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/47323/057_ready.pdf?sequence=2
http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/702523/25822221/1420425846237/201501-Anderson.pdf?token=l2%2FLx0JmL%2BnoJweS8OaJmcP8lGw%3D