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:
Classification
[edit]Genre
[edit]Lists of games
[edit]Party games
[edit]Sports
[edit]- Acrobatic arts
- Air sports
- Athletics
- Ball games
- Board sports
- Climbing
- Combat sports: wrestling and martial arts
- Flying disc sports
- Gymnastics
- Kite sports
- Mixed discipline
- Motorsports
- Orienteering
- Parkour/Freerunning
- Pedal vehicle
- Racing
- Shooting sports
- Snow sports
- Stacking
- Strength sports
- Tag games
- Walking
- Water sports
- Weightlifting
- Sports involving animals
- Mind sports
- Competitive model sports
- Overlapping sports
- Different classification
- Miscellaneous sports
Tabletop games
[edit]Video games
[edit]- By platform
- By developer
- By publisher
- By hardware
- By date
- By character or franchise
- By feature
- By region
- By genre
- By technology
- By license
- By player type
- By reception
- Other
Other
[edit]- List of board games
- List of card games
- List of dice games
- List of domino games
- List of fictional games
- List of games that Buddha would not play
- List of role-playing games
- List of traditional children's games
Game elements
[edit]Tabletop
[edit]Players
[edit]- Player – Participant in a game.
- Gamer – Participant in video games or tabletop games
- Athlete – Participant in sports
- Coach – Person who trains athletes.
- Player-coach – Athlete who trains athletes.
- Racecar driver – Participant in auto racing.
- Coach – Person who trains athletes.
Lists of players
[edit]- List of chess players
- List of esports players
- List of players who have appeared in multiple men's Olympic water polo tournaments
- List of players who have converted from one football code to another
NFL
[edit]- List of NFL players
- List of players who appeared in only one game in the NFL (1920–1929)
- List of players who appeared in only one game in the NFL (1930–1939)
History
[edit]Game development
[edit]Game design
[edit]- Dynamic music
- Emergent gameplay
- Game balance
- Game design process
- Game mechanics
- House rule – Unofficial modifications to official rules of a game.
- Simultaneous action selection
Video game
[edit]Game theory
[edit]- Cooperative game
- Evolutionary game theory
- Extensive form game
- Kingmaker scenario
- List of games in game theory
- Normal-form game
- Payoff matrix
Outlines of games
[edit]See also
[edit]
- Game club
- Game semantics
- Ludology
- Play
- Puzzle
- Sport
- Toy
- List of puzzle topics
- List of impossible puzzles
- List of puzzle-based computer and video games
References
[edit]- ^ "Definition of GAME". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
External links
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Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
