The A-Z of Video games: Video games and it's types
As a teenager I was always fascinated with technology. I remember coming home from school and using my parents phone to search the internet for new tech inventions. It was not until class eight that my passport me my first phone. I remember spending most of my free time on it to play games. That's when I discovered the new world. The world of video games. Since then I have been playing video games almost every single day. It has brought a new chapter in my life. It has always amazed me how video game managed become such as sensation in a short amount of time. Almost 40 percent of people in the world play video games as the form of entertainment. Video games for first invented in the mid 20th century. But it really evolved in the 1980s. Because of the technology advancements we started to get new types of video games. And also time came so came new gaming platforms. Nowadays games are played on many platform searches PC, console, smartphone etc. The invention of multiplayer video games caused many people to take a video games as their main source of entertainment. Because this allowed the players to test the skills on an equal footing.
While in the beginning video games didn't have many genre. But as technology progressed it created new types of video games thus creating new genre. Nowadays there are many video game genre such as Action, Adventure, Strategy, Puzzle, Sports, RPG and. Simulation. These genre are also divide it by sub-genre. Which explains exactly which game falls under which genre.
RPGs:
RPGs or commonly known as "role playing games" is a genre of games which players control characters to interact with the world that their playing in. In which the players may take an action which in turn may succeed or fail accordingly to to a formal system of rules and guidelines. There are many types of RPGs such a multiplayer text-based Multi-user Dungeons (MUDs), massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPGs) etc. Single player role-playing games also exist in which players control one or multiple characters to choose a multitude of actions which emphasizes on character advancement
Strategy:
A Strategy game or strategic game is a type of game in which players un-coerced often autonomous decision making skills has a high significance of determining the outcome. This type of games required you to have internal decision making skills and very high situational awareness. Strategy games are mainly categorised based on whether they offer continuous gameplay of real-time strategy (RTS) or the distinct phases of turn-based strategy (TBS). This types of games often time has a computer playing against the players as the opposition. Sometimes, they have to make a instinctive actions which is to complex for the computer to handle. Hence the emphasize on artificial intelligence.
Action:
Action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges including hand to eye co-ordination and reaction time. This genre is mostly based up on its sub-genres such as fighting games, shooter games and platform games. In action games a player typically control the character in the form of a protagonist. While playing the player must continue to challenge the level by fighting enemies, avoiding obstacles and collecting objectives in the level. At the end there is typically bad guy or the antagonist in the game story which is harder to beat than the typical mobs. In order to end the game you have to beat the boss. But some early action games are unbeatable and have an indefinite amount of levels with the goal of getting the highest score possible while beating the levels.
There are also some hybrid action games which doesn't exactly fall and the action game genre term. Like, Action-Adventure games, Action-Roleplaying games, Battle Royale games, Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) games, Rhythm Action games and Survival games.
When I was little I was always fascinated by technology. Technology has made a life so much easier and faster with it came in new form of entertainment, "Video Games". Video games has brought so much Joy into my life that I cannot describe it in a few papers. It has changed me so much that it became a part of my day to day life. That is why hopefully you all will understand what kind of joy video games bring into this world
Reference:
1: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Variety-of-video-game-genres-an-attempt-to-classify-genres-and-kinds-source-authors_fig2_292128935
2:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_games_by_genre
About me:
MD Ragib Yeasir Shishir, an ambiverted guy who keeps to himself mostly. Currently studying at BRAC University in the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Born and raised in many parts of Bangladesh due to his mother's occupation. He has passed his SSC from Shishukoli Model High school and HSC from Daud Public School & College.
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