Video Game Genres

Main Focus

As for video game genres, they have been compared to the classification of games made by Roger Caillois, defining four kinds of game types: agôn (competition), alea (chance), ilinx (vertigo), and mimicry (simulation), thereby putting them into a class of game genres rather than literary/cinematic genres (Mortensen, 2009). While it is obvious that a lot of video games are based on competition and simulation, and computer gambling fits into the notion of games of chance, traditional video games rarely become a game of vertigo, moreover the game typology does not account for the differences between video game genres because e.g. shooters, strategy games, fighting games, and sport games all have competition in common, however they certainly differ in approach to the competitive element of the game.