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Recategorization of Video Game Genres

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: While the categories that are typically used to discriminate games have been useful in the past, more recently game mechanics have become utilized by a wider range of games, leading to earlier definitions becoming a less valuable categorization tool. This paper attempts to provide various ways games could be classified by focusing on the types of emotions they evoke, the skills they require or their relations with personality or cognitive variables. A description of those categories and the challenge in using them to define games is outlined as well as five alternate methods that may help make distinctions between games clearer.

Source: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting

DOI: 10.1177/1541931218621473

Authors: Shawn M. Doherty, Joseph R. Keebler, Shayn S. Davidson, Evan M. Palmer, Christina M. Frederick

Institutions: Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, San Jose State University

Language: English

Topic: Digital Games and Media

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2894089302

FWCI: 2.252

Cites: 10

Cited by: 15

Related to: 10