Outline of games
(Redirected from Game basic topics)
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to games:
A game is a structured type of play usually undertaken for entertainment or fun. Games can also be work, art or an educational tool.[1]
Definition
[edit]Purpose
[edit]Individuals participate in game-play for various reasons, depending upon the aspect the particular game covers. These include:
- Education – The transmission of knowledge, skills and character traits.
- Learning analytics – Collecting data about learners for understanding and optimizing learning.
- Entertainment – Activity that holds attention or gives pleasure.
- Play – Intrinsically motivated recreation.
- Social relation – Interpersonal relationship between two or more people.
- Pleasure – Experience that feels good, is enjoyable.
- Hobby – A regular pleasurable activity.
- Strategy – Plan to achieve goals in uncertainty.
- Tactics – Conceptual action or short series of actions with the aim of achieving a short-term goal.
Classification
[edit]Genre
[edit]Lists of games
[edit]Party games
[edit]Tabletop games
[edit]- List of board games
- List of card games
- List of dice games
- List of domino games
- List of tabletop role-playing games
Video games
[edit]- By platform
- By developer
- By publisher
- By hardware
- By date
- By character or franchise
- By feature
- By region
- By genre
- By technology
- By license
- By player type
- By reception
- Other
Other
[edit]- List of fictional games
- List of games that Buddha would not play
- List of role-playing games
- List of traditional children's games
Game elements
[edit]- Clock
- Game controller
- Game media
- Lists of video game consoles
- Lusory attitude
- Marble
- Stadium
- Teetotum
- User guide
Tabletop
[edit]- Casino chip
- Chess set
- Dice
- Dominoes
- Game board
- Gamemaster
- Meeple
- Piece
- Player character
- Playing card
- Play money
Players
[edit]Lists of players
[edit]History
[edit]Game development
[edit]- Game development kit
- Tabletop game industry
- Video game developer
- Video game industry
- Video game modding
Game design
[edit]- Dynamic music
- Emergent gameplay
- Game balance
- Game design process
- Game mechanics
- Game of chance
- House rule – Unofficial modifications to official rules of a game.
- Simultaneous action selection
Video game
[edit]Game theory
[edit]- Cooperative game
- Evolutionary game theory
- Extensive form game
- Kingmaker scenario
- List of games in game theory
- Normal-form game
- Payoff matrix
- Perfect information
Outlines of games
[edit]See also
[edit]
- Game club
- Game semantics
- Ludology
- Play
- Puzzle
- Sport
- Toy
- List of puzzle topics
- List of impossible puzzles
- List of puzzle-based computer and video games
References
[edit]- ^ "Definition of GAME". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
External links
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