Genre in computer games In general Historically As a means of creating new games.

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1 Genre in computer games In general Historically As a means of creating new games.

2 What is a genre?

3 Nothing is fixed! Everything is an assemblage of older bits!

4 Spacewar (? What is the roots of this?)

5 Higginbothams tennis (1958)

6 Pong (pingpong + computers)

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8 Space Invaders (?)

9 Donkey Kong (?)

10 VCS 2600

11 Night Driver (driving + computer)

12 Pole Position (driving game + 3d)

13 Adventure (cave simulation + treasure & enemies)

14 Hobbit (adventure + graphics)

15 Action-adventure (adventure’s exploration + real time) Real-tids adventure. Fx Jet Set Willy Kort

16 Tetris (russian toy + computer)

17 Genres in the 1980’s PlatformAdventureAction Various: Pac-man (maze), Pengo, Qix, Frogger, Star Wars Driving Action-adventure: Gauntlet, Jet Set Willy.

18 Doom - First person shooter (action + some exploration from adventure)

19 Real time strategy (board game + real-time)

20 Tidslinie 1958: Higginbothams tennis 1961: SpaceWar! 1972: Pong 1977: Space Invaders 1980: Donkey Kong 1980: Game & watch Ca. 1983: ZX Spectrum, C64 1984: Videogame crash 1985: Nintendo 1986: Sega master system 1987: Amiga 1990: PC, Mac bliver spillecomputere 1993: Doom, netværksspil. Ca. Real Time Strategy. 1995: Sony Playstation, Sega Saturn 1996: Nintendo 64 1996: 3d accel kort til PC 1999: Dreamcast 2000: Playstation II (2001-2002: Microsoft X- Box, Nintendo Gamecube)

21 Genreopdelinger ca. 2001 (som alle er lidt uenige om) Gamespot.com

22 Games of emergence, games of progression Emergensspil Ikke- eller løst defineret tid. Elementer der kombinerer sig og laver nye mønstre. Mest multi player. Interesse i at bemestre og se nye kombinationer. Skak, action, Quake III, strategispil Progressionsspil Veldefineret tid. Den ene opgave efter den anden. Mest single player. Interesse i at komme videre, se nye ting. Adventurespil, Half-life etc..

23 Spilvariation

24 Game variation