Thursday 23 July 2015

WEEK 6 Video Game Genres




Video Game Genres

The games genre have been defined by its individual set of game play tests and are classified self supporting of there setting or game world content, not like works of fiction being films or books. As for example a shooter game is still a shooter games, despite of whether it takes place in a fantasy world or in outerspace.

Video games in the early 1990s such as platformers like Super Mario Bros. where the latest craze but at the end of the decade that design of game has moved in demand of military/sci-fi shooters.

In the 1970s the gamming has been growing with technology and through that process the video game genres have been changing with it. For example in the mid 1970s the biggest craze was the arcade and racing games but as time went along and technology got more powerful game developers became more creative. And different genres started to come out by 1985 and by the year 2000 shooter games and adventure genres games where in. such as Halo (2001), call of duty (2003), half life (1998) and resident evil (1996).

As technology moves forward so much our gamming has changed form the personal computer and consoles to our hand held devices such as I phones. And the time for the big game developer producing mega blockbuster games has gone and you will find more and more independent game developers producing small games out there and that is the growing trend in the gamming industry in the past decade. The genre of gamming wills all ways frequently is in flux with the march of technology. The better the technology the more possibilities that game studios and developers will have in creating new and exciting video game genres.

By Christopher Kralevski


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