April 2014
Intermediate to advanced
550 pages
13h 57m
English
Content preview from Level Up! The Guide to Great Video Game Design, 2nd Edition
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Bonus Level 4
The Medium-Sized List of Story Genres
STORY GENRES ARE categories of fiction based on subject matter. There are so many of story genres, I find it helps to have a list to keep track of them all.
- Adventure: period piece/swashbuckler/pirate
- Adventure: pulp/“two-fisted” action/explorer/treasure-hunter
- Adventure: survival/disaster
- Adventure: young adult
- Blaxplotation/grindhouse
- Caper/heist/thief
- Cartoon/anthropomorphic
- Comedy: romantic/misunderstanding
- Comedy: screwball/slapstick
- Crime drama/police
- Documentary/showbiz
- Educational
- Erotic
- Espionage
- Family drama
- Fantasy: fairytale/alternate world
- Fantasy: mythology (Greek, Japanese, Chinese, Norse, and so on)
- Fantasy: swords and sorcery
- Fantasy: whimsical
- Film noir/crime-drama/hard-boiled detective
- Game show
- Historical
- Historical: alternate
- Historical: mythological
- Historical: warfare
- Horror: B-movie/giant monster
- Horror: gothic (ghost, vampire, werewolf, Frankenstein)
- Horror: sci-fi
- Horror: slasher
- Horror: zombie/end of the world
- Martial arts/ninja
- Medical drama
- Mobster/gangster
- Musical
- Music/rock ’n’ roll
- Mystery
- Nurture/tamagotchi
- Political
- Romance drama/gothic
- School/teen drama
- Sci-fi: cyberpunk
- Sci-fi: invasion
- Sci-fi: Japanese/Sentai/giant robot
- Sci-fi: psychic
- Sci-fi: realistic/NASA
- Sci-fi: retro (1930s)
- Sci-fi: space opera
- Sci-fi: steampunk
- Sci-fi: time travel/parallel universe
- Sci-fi: undersea
- Sports: fantasy/sci-fi
- Sports: individual (boxing, wrestling, skateboarding, snowboarding, skiing)
- Sports: Olympic
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