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Overview of and topical guide to games From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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
Purpose
Individuals participate in game-play for various reasons, depending upon the aspect the particular game covers. These include:
- Education – The transmission of knowledge, skills and character traits.
- Learning analytics – Collecting data about learners for understanding and optimizing learning.
- Entertainment – Activity that holds attention or gives pleasure.
- Play – Intrinsically motivated recreation.
- Social relation – Interpersonal relationship between two or more people.
- Pleasure – Experience that feels good, is enjoyable.
- Hobby – A regular pleasurable activity.
- Strategy – Plan to achieve goals in uncertainty.
- Tactics – Conceptual action or short series of actions with the aim of achieving a short-term goal.
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Classification
Genre
Lists of games
Party games
Tabletop games
Video games
Other
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Game elements
- Clock
- Game controller
- Game media
- Lists of video game consoles
- Lusory attitude
- Marble
- Stadium
- Teetotum
- User guide
Tabletop
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Players
Lists of players
History
Game development
- Game development kit
- Tabletop game industry
- Video game developer
- Video game industry
- Video game modding
Game design
- Dynamic music
- Emergent gameplay
- Game balance
- Game design process
- Game mechanics
- Game of chance
- House rule – Unofficial modifications to official rules of a game.
- Simultaneous action selection
Video game
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Game theory
Outlines of games
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See also
References
External links
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