Outline of games
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to games and gaming:
skills, serve as a form of exercise, or otherwise perform an educational, simulational or psychological role.
Purpose
Individuals participate in game-play for various reasons, depending upon the aspect the particular game covers. These include:
Types of games
- Alternate reality game
- Ball game
- Board game
- Brain teaser
- Business game
- Car game
- Card game
- Casino game
- Children's game
- Clapping game
- Computer or video game
- Connect the dots
- Conversation games
- Counting-out game
- Crossword
- Dice game
- Drinking game
- Educational game
- 15 puzzle
- Game show
- Game of chance
- Game of skill
- Group-dynamic game
- Guessing game
- Jigsaw puzzle
- Lawn game
- Letter game
- Location-based game
- Logic puzzle
- Mathematical game
- Missing square puzzle
- Nonogram (a.k.a. gridders, paint by numbers, etc.)
- Open gaming
- Paper-and-pencil game
- Parlour game
- Party game
- Peg solitaire
- Play-by-mail game
- PowerPoint game
- Pub game
- Puzzle
- Quiz
- Riddle
- Role-playing game
- Rubik's Cube
- Sangaku
- Simulation video game
- Singing game
- Single-player video game
- Situation puzzle
- Sokoban
- Soma cube
- Spoken game
- Sports
- Spot the difference
- Strategy game
- Street game
- String figure
- Sudoku
- Tabletop game
- Theatresports
- Three cups problem
- Three utilities problem
- Throwing sports
- Tile-based game
- Tower of Hanoi
- Wargame
- Whodunit
- Word game
Game components
- Dice
- Playing card
- Go, and backgammonall have such a board), but many games use a modular board whose component tiles or cards can assume varying layouts from one session to another, or even as the game is played.
Components of role-playing games
Game play
- Play
- Player– a participant in a game
Game development
Game development
- Dynamic game difficulty balancing
- Dynamic music
- Emergent gameplay
- Evolver (3D Avatar Web Portal)
- Game balance
- Game design
- Game mechanics
- Gameplay
- Gold sink
- House rule
- Kingmaker scenario
- Lusory attitude
- Simultaneous action selection
- Super NES Emulator SE
Game theory
- Branch of applied mathematics
- Cooperative game
- Evolutionary game theory
- Extensive form game
- List of games in game theory
- Normal-form game
- Payoff matrix
Lists of games
- List of board games
- List of card games
- List of dice games
- List of domino games
- List of party games
- List of role-playing games
- List of sports
- Lists of video games
- List of best-selling video games
- List of traditional children's games
Also see
- Game club
- Game semantics
- Ludology
- Play
- Puzzle
- Sport
- Toy
- List of puzzle topics
- List of impossible puzzles
- List of puzzle-based computer and video games
External links
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