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[[Action-adventure]]<br /> | [[Action-adventure]]<br /> | ||
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[[Arcade Game]]<br /> | [[Arcade Game]]<br /> | ||
[[Arcade Shooter]]<br /> | [[Arcade Shooter]]<br /> | ||
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[[Board Games]]<br /> | [[Board Games]]<br /> | ||
[[Card Games]]<br /> | [[Card Games]]<br /> | ||
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[[Construction and Management Sim]]<br /> | [[Construction and Management Sim]]<br /> | ||
[[Cooking Games]]<br /> | [[Cooking Games]]<br /> | ||
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[[Flight Simulator]]<br /> | [[Flight Simulator]]<br /> | ||
[[Indie Games]]<br /> | [[Indie Games]]<br /> | ||
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[[Interactive Fiction]]<br /> | [[Interactive Fiction]]<br /> | ||
[[Isometric RPG]]<br /> | [[Isometric RPG]]<br /> | ||
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[[Open World Games]]<br /> | [[Open World Games]]<br /> | ||
[[Party games]]<br /> | [[Party games]]<br /> | ||
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[[Platformer]]<br /> | [[Platformer]]<br /> | ||
| + | [[Political Games]]<br /> | ||
[[Puzzle Games]]<br /> | [[Puzzle Games]]<br /> | ||
[[Puzzle-shooter]]<br /> | [[Puzzle-shooter]]<br /> | ||
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Revision as of 12:27, 23 February 2014
Game Genre Wiki
This wiki serves as a group project for FMMC 0282 in Spring 2014. Each student should select one of the game genres from the list below and create a detailed analytical page. On each page, students should create an analysis of the genre that effectively defines the genre, provides its history, discusses at least three important examples of games within the genre, and analyzes its significance within the scope of videogame studies as explore within the course. Each page should be a coherently written mini-essay, not a series of bullet points. All sources should be cited, and the page should include links both within the wiki and to external sources. All writing should be in the students' own words, or clearly marked as cited quotations.
Each student has ownership of one specific page. They are responsible for creating a first draft for that page, and managing subsequent edits. Students are expected to contribute to at least three other pages as well as maintaining their own primary page. Students are encouraged to use the Talk pages to discuss and plan edits.
The project will be assessed twice throughout the semester. On April 7th, the wiki will be locked for editing while Prof. Mittell assesses progress and leaves comments on pages. It will then be reopened and assessed again on May 15th at 5pm.
Students will be graded on three components: the overall quality of the entire wiki (a shared class grade), the quality of each student's owned page, and the level of participation from each student. These grades will be shared at each assessment point and averaged together for the final grade.
List of Genres
AAA Games
Action RPG
Action-adventure
Adventure
Card Games
Alternate Reality Games
Arcade Game
Arcade Shooter
Arena Shooter
Art Games
Board Games
Card Games
Casual Games
Construction and Management Sim
Cooking Games
Dance Games
Dating Sim
Dress-up Games
Driving Game
Dungeon Crawler
Educational Games
Fantasy Games
Fighting Games
First-Person Shooter
Flight Simulator
Indie Games
Infinite Runners
Interactive Fiction
Isometric RPG
JRPG
Life Simulator
Military Shooter
MMORPG
MOBA
Music Game
Mystery Games
Open World Games
Party games
Physics Puzzler
Platformer
Political Games
Puzzle Games
Puzzle-shooter
Racing
Rail shooters
Real-Time Strategy
Rhythm Game
Roguelike
RTS
Sandbox Game
Shooting Gallery
Side-scroller
Singing Games
Social Games
Sports
Survival-Horror
Tactical RPG
Third-person Shooter
Tie-in Games
Turn-Based RPG
Turn-Based Strategy
Virtual Reality
Visual Novel
Zombie Games
If students want to propose a genre not listed here or change the name of one of these, please ask Prof. Mittell.
