Game Genres and Experimental Game Design
(October 8th, 2007)
Game Genres
- Wikipedia
[ Extensive list of video game genres, complete with descriptions and example games. ]
- New Game Styles by
Greg Costikyan
[ Great powerpoint presentation on the
importance of imagining new game styles. Provides some good strategies. ]
Experimental Games
Take a look at The Experimental Gameplay Project. Four Grad students make a
game a week based on a certain topic. All experimental. Check out their games.
A USER INTERFACE APPROACH
- NON-GAME SYSTEMS
[ A few systems that using interesting interactive techniques. ]
MOUSE MOVEMENT
- Motion Phone by Scott Snibbe
[ Drawing with shapes to create abstract animations. ]
- Yellowtail by Golan Levin
[ Using how you drag a line to animate it. Sonification in the downloadable version.]
- Gesture Machines by Zach Lieberman
[ Experiments with gesture. ]
- Letterscapes by Peter Cho
[ Formal studies in form / shape, but there are interesting interactions as well. ]
KEYBOARD INPUT
- dakadaka
[ Using the whole keyboard. ]
- GAME SYSTEMS
[ Games using interesting interactive techiniques. ]
ROTATION
- Twin Spin
- Mozaik
- Roboto
MOUSE MOVEMENT
- Jedi Trainer
- Flip Out
- Spin to Win
DRAWING
- String Avoider
- Loop
- Floats
MOUSE CLICK
- Crash
- Arcadia
BASED ON A NEW SUBJECT
- Sissy Fight
[ A game based on school girls fighting. ]
- Brain Buster
[ A game based on exersizing your brain (online brain age clone). ]
USING NEW TECHNOLOGY [or using old tech in new ways]
- GPS::Tron
[ Tron game remade using GPS technologies. ]
- TFT Tennis V180
[ 3D Pong using monitors that swivel around. ]
- Brainball
[ Battle of wits using biofeedback. ]
- Red Light, Green Light [movie]
[ Red Light, Green Light game redone using a hand held screen and sensor as an interface. ]
- xBlocks
[ A game combining sculpture and mutliple projections. ]