Outline of games
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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]Video games
[edit]Other
[edit]Game elements
[edit]- Clock
- Game controller
- Game media
- Lists of video game consoles
- Lusory attitude
- Marble
- Stadium
- Teetotum
- User guide
Tabletop
[edit]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]Outlines of games
[edit]- Outline of chess
- Outline of games
- Outline of poker
- Outline of video games
See also
[edit]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Definition of GAME". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
External links
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Media from Commons
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
