Game Genres

Gaming Genres

In the third week we spoke about different gaming genres. how they could be different and how they capture their audience. 

For example, an Action game gets its audience by having high action packed scenes in the trailer but also promises a fast paced environment in which the player can enjoy and experience over and over again. 

There are four main genres in gaming: 

- Action Games: these involve physical challenges for the player or character being controlled. 

- Strategy Games: These games involve a lot of mental,tactical and logistical challenges.

- Role Playing Games: These games are very tactical, have an element of exploration in them and also have economical challenges. 

-Real World Simulations: These can range from anything from sport games where the player has real world physical tasks e.g. Tennis or it can range to flight simulators, where a virtual lesson is taken with rear to exact replica environments. 

- Construction/ Management Games: These games can be anything from building a town and progressing into a city to a game where you are the sole manager of say a football team and have to draft players to make your team more advanced so you can rank in the leader boards. 

-Adventure Games: Adventure games have a certain element of exploration to them with a problem solving element as you play too. 

-Puzzle Games: Puzzle games challenge the Logic of a player and present different puzzles for the player to solve in order to pass onto the next level. Usually Involve a high score or leader board. 

Hybrid Games

Hybrid Games involve more than one genre, for example an Action-Adventure game involves both Action and Adventure. 

Hybrid games are mostly action based games and include both a story and puzzle throughout the game. A good example of a Hybrid game would be Tomb Raider; the Tomb Raider series are hybrid games on the basis that they are primarily action games however they are crossed with the Adventure genre. 

At the end of the lesson we were asked to come up with a presentation about one of these genres that we would be presenting to the class in week 7.