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.
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.
Classification
Genre
Lists of games
Party games
Tabletop games
Video games
Other
Game elements
Tabletop
Players
- Player – Participant in a game.
- Gamer – Participant in video games or tabletop games
Lists of players
History
Game development
Game design
Video game
Game theory
Outlines of games
See also
References
External links