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Practical Game Design
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Practical Game Design

by Adam Kramarzewski, Ennio De Nucci
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
476 pages
14h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Genre

If you think about movies, since there's no interactivity involved, the narrative theme is enough to define an entire genre: thrillers, war movies, romantic movies, comedies, and so on.

Since games are an interactive medium, talking about a war game doesn't really tell us much about it. Therefore, in games, the genre is more informative than the theme and the setting. And so our genres, such as a First Person Shooter (FPS), are heavily related to the gameplay at hand. An FPS can take place in different settings and explore different themes: from historic, to present day or even sci-fi.

Genre tells the players what kind of game they will be playing, and it's a very useful way to classify games. There are quite a lot of genres and each ...

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ISBN: 9781787121799Other