Video Games

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Video Games

• The many different genres
• September 14, 2004

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Adventure Games

• Story based
• Rely on puzzle solving to move action along
• Usually not real-time

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Action Games

• Real-Time
• First person shooters

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Role-Playing Games (RPGs)

• Unfolding story
• Micromanage a character
• Complex

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Strategy Games (RTS)

• Resource Management
• Multiplayer

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Simulations

• Emulators

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Sports Games

• Be good in a sport you have never tried
• Does not translate well into real life

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Puzzle Games

• Information Puzzles
• Codes, Cryptograms and word puzzles
• People Puzzles
• Timing Puzzles
• Sequence Puzzles
• Logic Puzzles
• Riddles
• Trial Error Puzzles
• Mazes
• Gestalt Puzzles

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