Outline of games
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
- Party game#Common party games
- Party game#Children's party games
Tabletop games
- List of board games
- * List of cross and circle games
- List of card games
- List of dice games
- List of domino games
- List of tabletop role-playing games
Video games
- By platform
- By developer
- By publisher
- By hardware
- By date
- By character or franchise
- By feature
- By region
- By genre
- By technology
- By license
- By player type
- By reception
- Other
Other
- List of fictional games
- List of games that Buddha would not play
- List of role-playing games
- List of traditional children's games
Game elements
- Clock
- Game controller
- Game media
- Lists of video game consoles
- Lusory attitude
- Marble
- Stadium
- Teetotum
- User guide
Tabletop
- Chess set
- * Chessboard
- * Chess piece
- ** Bishop
- ** King
- ** Knight
- ** Pawn
- ** Queen
- ** Rook
- Dice
- * Long dice
- Dominoes
- Game board
- Gamemaster
- * Gamemaster's screen
- Piece
- * Meeple
- * Miniatures
- * Player character
- Playing card
- * French-suited
- * German-suited
- * Italian-suited
- * Portuguese-suited
- * Spanish-suited
- * Swiss-suited
- Play money
- * Casino chip
Players
- Player - Participant in a game.
- * Gamer - Participant in video games or tabletop games
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
Game theory
- Cooperative game
- Evolutionary game theory
- Extensive form game
- * Information set
- Kingmaker scenario
- List of games in game theory
- Normal-form game
- Payoff matrix
- Perfect information
Outlines of games
- Outline of chess
- Outline of games
- Outline of poker
- Outline of video games